What would be really cool would be if I could be left out in the bush for the Forest Ravens and the Tassie Devils to consume.
How do you want to be 'memorialized'?
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Same here. Harvest what can be used, cremate the rest and scatter the ashes wherever they feel like. If my family wish to have a memorial, they can have a tombstone or something like that. A statue would be nice, of course.
I want my ashes fired from a cannon atop a 153-foot tower in the shape of a double-thumbed fist clutching a peyote button to the tune of Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" and Bob Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man with red, white, blue, and green fireworks launching with my ashes.
Dunno. I've thought about it from time to time, but don't really have a strong opinion. Other than the freezing thing. Not interested in that at all.
I don't have any real objection to cremation, and it would seem like the fiscally wiser choice. But it lacks the historical connection represented by centuries of ritual burial. I kinda want a headstone to say something about my existence for years and years after I'm gone. Why not leave another genealogical puzzle piece for someone down the line to discover and plug into his family tree?
I don't have any real objection to cremation, and it would seem like the fiscally wiser choice. But it lacks the historical connection represented by centuries of ritual burial. I kinda want a headstone to say something about my existence for years and years after I'm gone. Why not leave another genealogical puzzle piece for someone down the line to discover and plug into his family tree?
Sky Burial.
Then my vulture friends can use me to get revenge on all the cars passing through the wilderness that make too much noise, and interrupt their meals.
I could even have a "point of interest" sign placed under their favorite roost tree along the highway, telling people who is raining down upon them. It could attract the victims over, to make sure.
And, for the way that I live, it is very probable that I will get my wish, one day
...but that may not be for a very, very long time - I hope.
Then my vulture friends can use me to get revenge on all the cars passing through the wilderness that make too much noise, and interrupt their meals.
I could even have a "point of interest" sign placed under their favorite roost tree along the highway, telling people who is raining down upon them. It could attract the victims over, to make sure.
And, for the way that I live, it is very probable that I will get my wish, one day
...but that may not be for a very, very long time - I hope.
I intend to live forever.
I don't, I'm leaving my body to medical science.
My mother-in-law wants to be cremated--says it's cheapest--and she's not Jewish (my Mom is). I asked Hubby if we could have a very small container of her ashes, assuming all of her children want a little.
I'm very lucky to have a good mother-in-law and I wouldn't mind having her "stay" with us.
I'm very lucky to have a good mother-in-law and I wouldn't mind having her "stay" with us.
Helpful hint for those opting for cremation -- check with the mortician to see if a casket is required. My paternal grandfather was cremated and my dad and grandmother asked if a sheet could be used vice spending money on a coffin. No problem. The mortician didn't charge for a sheet, and the cost of cremation was less than what Medicaid reimbursed my grandmother. She made $5 off of the whole ordeal!
My new choice, since I have just been informed that Sky Burial is NOT legal, here in...
"The Land Of The Free":
My body would be entombed in one of the caves up in these granite, desert mountains for future archaeologist to discover. I would have the bones of my favorite equines arranged around me, in full ancient Eurasian regalia, ceca: Middle Sarmatian, late 2nd century BC to late 2nd century AD.
I would be wearing my favorite gold diadem (stags, horses, star ships, and Frank Zappa wrestling a nude censor on it), but also my gold llamé, caped sarong, with flesh-tone sandals (...to keep my legs from looking stumpen. Thou must not arrive stumpen looking in the afterlife. This is very bad manners. They may not let thee in!). Clutching a green lava lamp in my right hand, and a red one in the left, I would have added as many archaeological ooparts (out-of-place artifacts) as I could find, to help the future with its development, both intellectual and humorous (essential to the survival of all intelligent beings, and civilizations)...
YES, I would have all the Star Trek (on what ever media would be appropriate in the 22nd century) packed on my Equids... even the Shat's new album.
"The Land Of The Free":
My body would be entombed in one of the caves up in these granite, desert mountains for future archaeologist to discover. I would have the bones of my favorite equines arranged around me, in full ancient Eurasian regalia, ceca: Middle Sarmatian, late 2nd century BC to late 2nd century AD.
I would be wearing my favorite gold diadem (stags, horses, star ships, and Frank Zappa wrestling a nude censor on it), but also my gold llamé, caped sarong, with flesh-tone sandals (...to keep my legs from looking stumpen. Thou must not arrive stumpen looking in the afterlife. This is very bad manners. They may not let thee in!). Clutching a green lava lamp in my right hand, and a red one in the left, I would have added as many archaeological ooparts (out-of-place artifacts) as I could find, to help the future with its development, both intellectual and humorous (essential to the survival of all intelligent beings, and civilizations)...
YES, I would have all the Star Trek (on what ever media would be appropriate in the 22nd century) packed on my Equids... even the Shat's new album.
Really? But you're not that important. 
Really? But you're not that important.
Oh! But I am! - For exactly that very reason!
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'You must be,' said the Cat. 'or you wouldn't have come here.'
Every Roman Emperor was cremated, and the practice was also standard among the Germanic tribes and various other pagan groups in Europe. If anything, burial with a headstone is the new kid on the block as far as western civilization goes.
As for me: Take anything that could be of use to others (up to and including my entire skeleton) and burn whatever is left over.
I can't fathom the mindset of people like Geckothan. Why not let people have your organs? You're not using them anymore.
If I should die, think only this of me
That there's some corner of the Internets
That is for ever Ravescene.
That there's some corner of the Internets
That is for ever Ravescene.
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