What'll they do when your dead?

[SiorX]

Organ donation. Any bits of me that can be any use to somebody else are there for the taking. It's not like I'll have any more use for them.

Beyond that, I guess it's up to whomever of my family it is who outlive me. Personally, I prefer the idea of cremation to burial, but I'd rather they did whatever makes them happiest. At that point, I don't reckon I ought to get much say in it, since I'll be the person to whom it'll matter least.

 

[Kirk Only]

Well, I'll be dead...I'll be a worm feast so it doesn't matter, I'll never know it.....but I'd prefer organ donation as well while the rest of the family PARTY'S...LOL..

 

[John Picard]

With my luck, it will go something like this:

GONG.

"Bring out your dead."

"Here you go."

"Wait, I'm not dead yet."

"Shut up."

 

[iguana_tonante]

As to what will actually happen, I suspect a classic, tasteful burial somewhere leafy & peaceful and a decent tombstone.

I always envied British (and American) style for cemeteries. Open fields, grass, trees, scattered tombstones. Mournful but quiet and peaceful. Around here space is at a premium, so most cemeteries are of the "wall of niches" kind, which I find very cramped and depressing. One of the main reason I want to be cremated and scattered.

 

[Mallory]

A small group of mourners in black, perhaps the odd tear if I'm lucky. I'll leave some instructions for the details so it's all done right.

Hired mourners are the answer. I plan on having 30-40 young women in the back two rows for the service, sobbing away.

It's always good to leave people wondering.

 

[SiorX]

Hired mourners are the answer. I plan on having 30-40 young women in the back two rows for the service, sobbing away.

It's always good to leave people wondering.

Lol! On that logic, I want hired mourners dressed as The Justice League lurking around my funeral.

 

[Holdfast]

A small group of mourners in black, perhaps the odd tear if I'm lucky. I'll leave some instructions for the details so it's all done right.

Hired mourners are the answer. I plan on having 30-40 young women in the back two rows for the service, sobbing away.

It's always good to leave people wondering.

21 gun salute for this idea.

 

[Miss Chicken]

A small group of mourners in black, perhaps the odd tear if I'm lucky. I'll leave some instructions for the details so it's all done right.

Hired mourners are the answer. I plan on having 30-40 young women in the back two rows for the service, sobbing away.

It's always good to leave people wondering.

21 gun salute for this idea.

Out of interest who in the USA is entitled to a 21 gun salute?

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

If there are any mysterious puncture marks on my neck, I want to be buried, just in case I can come back. (Preferred tombstone quote: "Death is but a door. Time is but a window. I'll be back.")

Otherwise, I'd like to bring funeral pyres back into fashion. (I'm just afraid that, when you're dead, your brain is still aware of what's going on. It's just that your body is helpless to do anything about it.)

I'm going to wander off into the wilderness to die alone, or perhaps in the company of a large grizzly bear whom I will challenge to a battle for supremacy.

But what if, against all odds, you win?

Hired mourners are the answer. I plan on having 30-40 young women in the back two rows for the service, sobbing away.

It's always good to leave people wondering.

Lol! On that logic, I want hired mourners dressed as The Justice League lurking around my funeral.

With Superman conspicuously absent?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Organ donation.

I used to be personally opposed to that concept (I was afraid that if you get sick or injured and go to the hospital, they would not work as hard to save you). But I'm trying to keep an open mind.

 

[Bloodwhiner]

First harvest the organs and then resomation

What's that you ask?

A process where the body is immersed in a 1:21 solution of potash lye and water. Gas-powered steam generators build up pressure within the tank as the temperature rises up to around 170 degrees celcius. Thanks to the pressure (and despite what the general news media would have you think) there is no boiling, only a chemical reaction that completely liquefies everything but the bone ash in our bodies. When the tank is opened, only the bone ash and any implants or prosthetics the person had remain.

When the body has been fully liquefied, it has been separated into two main parts. The first is a bio-fluid that is basically a collection of all our building blocks: Salts, sugars, peptides, and amino acids. The nutrients in this liquid are still entirely intact and can be returned to the soil to help our plants grow. The second is basically a "shadow" of your bones called bone ash, pure calcium phosphate. This can be used in horticulture, ceramics, and even as a raising agent! In other words, getting resomated allows you to fully return your body to the Earth without worrying about adding a bunch of unwanted stuff to the soil at the same time.


... either that or tie a weight to me and drop me into very deep ocean water for fish food.

As long as it is cheap an there is no fancy ceremony. Use the money to throw a party to celebrate my life with an open bar and good BBQ.

 

[Bloodwhiner]

BTW there is a great book that deals with this very subject, absolutely fascinating.

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

For those talking about donating to science, you should know that your body may not go a school or even a single place. Your head may go to plastic surgeons learning to do nose jobs while arms and legs sent in several different directions. It may be used for teaching forensics (ie how the body rots) or any of a multitude of things that has nothing to do with medical students. All worthy but maybe not what you expected.

 

[Supreme Admiral]

I currently don't have a will as of yet, but I will have about three different form of wills to be made this year.

I, for one, don't want those choice to be buried nor cremated at certain point. It's too obvious that I choose cryonics over this because I believe that someday in the future, they'll be able to revive me with more advanced technology.

It will be more beautiful than death itself. I hate it that people meets their death when their time here on the earth ended. People should enjoy life more than death itself.

I will laugh my ass off once I come back to this forum and seeing that most of you're buried and D-E-A-D! More like I'm dancing over your graves!

 

[RJDiogenes]

After reading this Thread, I've changed my mind. I want to be a skeleton! And displayed in a glass case in the ancestral family home. What a great conversation piece at parties.

"And here we have Great Uncle Richard. He enjoyed moderate success as a writer back in the 21st Century. Nothing but bleached bones now, of course. Ah, there's the dinner bell!"

 

[Miss Chicken]

So far noone has said they would liket o be mummified, nor has anyone said that they would like to be cryogenical frozen.

 

[The Comedian]

When I die the rest of the Watchmen will look into it and discover the plot to save the world by wrecking huge chunks of it.

 

[Supreme Admiral]

So far noone has said they would liket o be mummified, nor has anyone said that they would like to be cryogenical frozen.

Why am I not surprised that I'm only one that wanting to be cryogenical frozen?

 

[RJDiogenes]

In real life, if the technology is perfected and affordable, I'll probably go with cryogenic suspension; I do want to live forever, after all.

 

[Supreme Admiral]

There you have it ladies and gentlemen!

 

[RoJoHen]

I currently don't have a will as of yet, but I will have about three different form of wills to be made this year.

I, for one, don't want those choice to be buried nor cremated at certain point. It's too obvious that I choose cryonics over this because I believe that someday in the future, they'll be able to revive me with more advanced technology.

It will be more beautiful than death itself. I hate it that people meets their death when their time here on the earth ended. People should enjoy life more than death itself.

I will laugh my ass off once I come back to this forum and seeing that most of you're buried and D-E-A-D! More like I'm dancing over your graves!

Maybe, if they did it to you while you were still alive, I could see a chance of this working. But what if you've been dead for a while before somebody finds you? Unless you plan on coming back as a zombie, I doubt this plan will work.