Cremation or normal Burial?

[BarbC]

Cemeteries are big toxic waste dumps. Some people are returning to simple wood boxes with non-preserved bodies - much more natural and gentle to the earth, and a heck of a lot cheaper.

Of course, we could always put your body in a tree and let the buzzards pick on it, the way the Native Americans did.

Then there's LifeGem, so your wife can always have you wrapped around her finger. Shine on, you crazy diamond.

 

[deralte]

For those who are afraid of cremation think of the old tune about burial - "The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out". I'd rather go the burn way, plus its a lot cheaper.

 

[zoom6zoom]

Originally posted by GatorFarmer:
Cryo freeze. That way the space aliens, or folks from the future or what not can thaw you out.

or use you as a tasty snack. If they've got crock pots in outer space.

 

[arkypete]

A buddy and I have plans for a retirement business. We want to buy an 8 inch gun some projectiles and powder bags. We'll set the gun up some where around Nags Head, N.C. and once a week with the projectile full of cremated folks launch them out to sea.
For an extra charge we could organize bridge, poker players to go on a group shot with some cards, to keep busy while waiting for eternity.

We will be having our IPO shortly, so get your checks in soon.

Jim

 

[dennis40x]

I'll be gone from here and can care less what they do with the remains.

 

[Iggy]

My wife and I have the ashes of our dogs preserved. Our instructions to my son are when we both are gone, our ashes and the dogs are to be combined and scattered somewhere on the ranch.

Our spirits will have gathered at the rainbow bridge and passed beyond and our physical beings will have been scattered on the Wyoming prairies that were so much of our lives.


No muss, no fuss.

 

[S-W4EVER]

Originally posted by jag312:...weigh me down with some chain, and dump me in the ocean.

Get sideways with the Mob and they'll do this for free.

 

[Jack Flash]

Originally posted by godlessgael:
I say throw me in a sack, then throw me in a hole, then plant an oak sapling over me.

The tree-huggers have come up with a pretty decent idea that's pretty close.

They just bury you out in the woods somewhere and plant a tree. I don't know if there is a csasket, but if so, it's biodegradable, as is the body. I think that makes a lot of sense.

 

[mississippi revolverman]

Me "going up in a puff of smoke"

 

[J. Galt]

Definitely cremation. Cemeteries are a huge waste of space and what happens to the remains buried in them is just disgusting.

I do like that tree hugger idea though, that wouldn't be bad at all.

 

[cmort666]

Donated to science... or dumped in a ditch by the side of the road. Makes no
difference to me since I won't be around to worry about it.

 

[ladder13]

I'll be getting a new body from the Lord, who cares what happens to this one.

 

[Jim in Wisconsin]

I'm an on again, off again woodturner. When my FIL passed away, I made up an urn for him.
I figured at age 90, he had earned the use of a turned urn...

 

[sar4937]

You could have your ashes scattered at your local range, or mixed with a powder and put in reloads to be shot by your buddies at your wake held at the range.

 

[JOERM]

All this is what I call "Thinking outside the box."

 

[SW CQB 45]

when my dad passed, he wanted to be cremated and his ashes spread into the gulf of mexico and when we came back to visit, he would be the dolphin with the mustache.

I did save a portion and spread at the outdoor police firing range. He liked going with me.

me, no box/no buried. cremation and my wife has instructions to put me on the 50 yard line at our police range.

the funeral homes get you one way or another. we had to rent a casket for my dad as they claim there was state law for a deceased to be in a casket. I did not research, so they may have poked my eyes.

his burial was bottom of the barrel and was still 5G. and that was the plastic box for his remains.

 

[wheelgun1958]

Reminds me of a song from summer camp. "Just plant a watermelon on the top of my grave and let the juice run through."

 

[Big Rich]

Cremation, then scatter the ashes. Use some of the insurance money to have a small get together with my friends and celebrate my life, and have some good food and a few laughs. THen go and enjoy life. I could never see spending all the money for a funeral, just to throw it into a hole in the ground, in a place where noone will come to afterward. Put it to better use.

 

[perrazi]

burn and scatter on the gun range.

 

[Spotteddog]

I've been a paid in full member of the cremation society for so long now I don't even recall when I did it? As far as what happens to you on the outbound leg? I doubt you'll feel it!
I've toyed with having mine scattered by being the target at an M-1 Garand only shoot?