How do you want to be 'memorialized'?

[Gryffindorian]

I couldn't think of any other word to use. This may sound like a morbid topic, but none of us are going to live forever.

I was looking at this very interesting website and saw some of the most beautiful urns and caskets. I thought, OMG! Dying can be so expensive. The site made me think about how I'd like to "go" someday. Where I grew up in another country, almost all people who died were buried at the cemetery, and so I haven't really been open-minded about cremation. I believe in preserving the body even after the spirit/soul is gone.

So how would you like to be taken care of someday? Perhaps you'd like an entire pyramid or mausoleum built for you. Would you like ashes scattered somewhere? Do you see any particular urn or casket you like?

 

[Kestra]

Cremated and have my ashes thrown away, basically. Or baked into a cake which is then eaten by my enemies. Either one will do.

 

[Geckothan]

If I'm already dead, cremated with all my internal organs left intact so they don't swipe them for transplants, or if I'm not quite dead but can't be cured of whatever ailment I have with current medical technology, frozen so they can sort me out in the future.

 

[Goliath]

I want to be promated: frozen in liquid nitrogen until brittle, powdered, and used as mulch to fertilize a tree planted on my grave.

 

[propita]

When my Dad died, we picked out a kosher casket (made of wood, no metal/nails) from a Chabad mortuary service. Not the plainest one, but it was unstained and pretty plain. My Mom said that it was also what she wanted.

Hubby had wanted to just be buried in the back yard, but I don't think that's allowed in suburbia. So he and I looked while we were picking out Dad's and liked the one just one step up. Slightly smoother, and stained. No pillows or padding (what for?). Just a simple pine box.

As for being remembered...I doubt it. We have no kids. We interact with many people, mentoring those who have the ability but need a bit of a hand--but I don't think we'll be remembered after we're gone. That's what Foundations and scholarships are for, I guess.

 

[Rek]

Cremated.

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

Buried in the cemetery with the rest of my family. I want my possessions to be sold and a fund set up for a scholarship for people trying to get their degrees.

 

[auntiehill]

I guess I would like to be buried and have a headstone. I like the idea of someone seeing my tombstone decades or centuries from now and think "Who the hell was that?"

A simple wood casket--the Wheat Wood one that site had---would be fine. I'll be dead, so I won't know the difference.

As long as they don't do the open casket funeral. I have always thought those were a bad, bad idea. Just put some pictures up and leave the darn box closed. It's much better to remember the person as they were when they were alive.

 

[Canadave]

Cremation, I think, is what I'd want. Haven't thought much about it, though.

I do know that I want this song used as a template for my memorial service, though:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0SpwEdU5ak[/yt]

 

[Paulcpick]

I want my body launched into deep space.

 

[mari]

I voted for "cremated", but there's a related process in which the remains are made into a diamond. I would like to be made into a diamond. Haven't decided yet who gets to wear me as jewelry.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Funeral Pyre. It was good enough for Vikings, ancient Greeks, and Jedi. Why isn't it good enough for people today? I plan on bringing it back. I'll have that be my legacy.

I'd like to be remembered as "history's greatest monster," but I just don't think I'll ever stop procrastinating long enough to earn that title.

 

[Shikarnov]

I chose "other" since I really don't really care. Whatever will bring the most comfort to my family will be fine. If my wife wants to bury me and visit my grave site from time to time, cool. If she wants to cremate me and keep me in an urn by her bedside, that's fine too. If freezing me brings her comfort, then that's okay as long as they don't unfreeze me after her death. Hell, even if she wants to sell my parts like a Ferengi, I'm cool with that too.

 

[John Picard]

I am an avid hobbyist in old air-cooled Volkswagens. Over the years, I have taken "dead" cars, stripped them of usable parts and/or cut out good panels in order to keep others on the road. Much the same, the doctors can remove whatever usable parts can harvested in order to help someone else (corneas, kidneys, heart, etc) and then "scrap" (cremate) the rest to be either buried at sea or scattered along the Cascades.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

I would like whatever is done to be kept very simple. Burial, because I think that would be the most comforting for my family and friends, and also because I think having a gravesite to go to would mean a lot. My family is big into genealogy and the like, so I would like to give them that same sense of connection.

 

[Jetfire]

I want my body launched into deep space.

Kinda like this...I want to orbit Neptune.

 

[Canadave]

^ You know, if that's affordable in 60-70 years (or however long I live for) that would be a really cool way to be memorialized.

 

[Gryffindorian]

If only I came from a rich family, now I'm thinking it would be REALLY nice to have a family mausoleum built where every member of the family would be buried (rather than have individual grave stones in different cemeteries). It would signify togetherness.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Cremated and my ashes scattered on a nearby beach which has a great view of 'my mountain'. I want them to take whatever anyone needs from my body before this is done.

I want the cremation done as cheaply as possible. Cheapest coffin, no service at all, only two of my sons and two closest friends present when my ashes are scattered. I don't want people who don't bother to visit me while I am still alive to turn up at my funeral.

 

[greenguy]

I would like a green burial. I don't want anyone to cry at my funeral. Instead, I expect to be roasted, damn it...and I want everyone attending to be roasted and/or sloshed anyway.