Cremation or Burial?

[Lookingglassman]

I am in an argument with my mom and dad about how I want my remains desposed of once I kick the bucket. I want to be cremated and my ashes dumped wherever they want to dump them. They want me to have a "decent burial" with a casket and all that crap.

Cremations are FAR cheaper than a regular funeral. The cremation places I checked out charge around $1150 bucks for non-members and about $980 for members. I plan on becoming a member a so my family can save money. Heck, I plan on even leaving money for them to pay for it.

My reasoning is why should my family shell out thousands of dollars just to bury my rotted corpse? I want to be reduced to ashes and they can throw them out with the garbage for all I care. Its cheaper.

So enough ranting, which would you guys and gals prefer cremation or burial?

 

[TheLonelySquire]

I am in an argument with my mom and dad about how I want my remains desposed of once I kick the bucket. I want to be cremated and my ashes dumped wherever they want to dump them. They want me to have a "decent burial" with a casket and all that crap.

Cremations are FAR cheaper than a regular funeral. The cremation places I checked out charge around $1150 bucks for non-members and about $980 for members. I plan on becoming a member a so my family can save money. Heck, I plan on even leaving money for them to pay for it.

My reasoning is why should my family shell out thousands of dollars just to bury my rotted corpse? I want to be reduced to ashes and they can throw them out with the garbage for all I care. Its cheaper.

So enough ranting, which would you guys and gals prefer cremation or burial?

Heck, Central Pizza in Berlin, CT will burn you up for about $20. Myself, I'll take the rolling hills of a cemetery.

 

[Lookingglassman]

^LOL! I'm going to check out the pizza place!

 

[Ohappydagger]

I'm nothing but rapidly deteriorating biohazardous waste once I'm dead. Incinerate me and get rid. Don't take up valuable land with my yucky corpse.

 

[Rÿcher]

natural burial. No casket. Giving back to the Earth.

 

[Kestra]

I want to be reduced to ashes and they can throw them out with the garbage for all I care.

That's how I feel. Then again, cremation is pretty standard Hindu practice so my family likely won't put up any arguments.

 

[Emher]

Going with cremation. Then again I don't like the idea of being munched on by worms.

 

[Gertch]

A cowboy told his grandson the secret to a long life. He said, "You gotta sprinkle a little gunpowder on your oatmeal, see. If you do, you'll live to a nice ripe old age."
So the cowboy did this religiously every day, and sure enough, lived to the nice ripe old age of 96.
When he died he left behind 4 children, 8 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren
...and a 16 foot hole in the wall of the crematorium.


Cremate me.

 

[Lookingglassman]

Rycher, I saw something on tv a few months ago about a place that does that. I think it is a university somewhere that actually buries the the bodies with no caskets and then study the effects of the soil and how plants react to the decomposing bodies. I forgot where it was, I think in Colorado.

 

[trekkiedane]

I really couldn't care less what happens to my corpse.

But the last three generations of my family were cremated or are planning to be (don't know about before that) which is the norm around here, so I do have a guess at what might happen…

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It's really about those still living, not the dead person. But I think it tasteless to spend loads of money on someone that is incapable of appreciating it.

 

[Mallory]

I want to be buried, after an elaborate funeral involving a horse drawn caisson and 30 or 40 paid young female mourners. And I finally want to own a lot (albeit a small one) virtually forever.

Besides, who doesn't want to join the Zombie Army when the uprising occurs?

 

[DRMidnite]

I want to be buried, after an elaborate funeral involving a horse drawn caisson and 30 or 40 paid young female mourners. And I finally want to own a lot (albeit a small one) virtually forever.

Besides, who doesn't want to join the Zombie Army when the uprising occurs?

The Black Lanterns!

 

[Rÿcher]

Rycher, I saw something on tv a few months ago about a place that does that. I think it is a university somewhere that actually buries the the bodies with no caskets and then study the effects of the soil and how plants react to the decomposing bodies. I forgot where it was, I think in Colorado.

I think that's for forensics and stuff. There are dedicated cemeteries for what I want to do. Just bury the body in a 3 foot deep hole, fill, let decay and have the worms feast.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Cremate me! And then launch my ashes into orbit.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I want burying, under no circumstances should I be cremated, unless I actually die in a fire.

 

[Non Sync]

There are a couple of more options: Mummified and placed in a magnificent pyramid that generations upon generations would wonder who was so gloriously entombed in such a shrine, dumped in the Thames or be eaten.

Of course, this is all predicated on the concept that I would actually die.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Oooh, sign me up for a pyramid!

 

[Hermiod]

Cremation.

 

[trampledamage]

I think I'll go for being a theatre prop.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7749962.stm

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I might consider having my body dropped into a tank of water, have that water turned to a block of ice and then have my body within that ice block and tank blasted into space and launched in the direction of the next Star system.