Open casket or closed casket?

I would like to be cremated and put in a meatcake.

No casket. No body. Cremate and drop the ashes in the nearest trash can.
If people want to get together and celebrate or mourn, that’s up to them.

No casket and I’m not having anything to eat at lucille’s funeral.

Never morn a death, celebrate the life.

Don’t curse God for taking a life, but rather celebrate the fact they were given the chance to live.

When my father died 2 months ago, we did not ask why God took him, rather we thanked God for the gift he gave of 94 years. No one lives forever and death is part of the cycle of life.

When I’m dead, I will be dead and can only hope my wishes will be carried out (cremation). But if they’re not…oh well! I’ll be dead.

Years ago a friend of mine died and her request was to have a memorial service with only pictures. She detested people looking down on her in life, and didn’t want anyone looking down on her in death…

Cremated, ashes in a garden somewhere.

Fill me with helium & use me in advertising, just like these things.
It’s a living!! Well, i’d be dead but…..oh you know.

No funeral, no visitation, just close family and friends, closed casket, and cremated.

Depends on the remains.

Were I to be young and leave a good looking corpse, open. CSI had a tough time identifying me and finally decided based on dental records and a coin toss? Closed.

Closed casket, send plenty of flowers.

Cremation because it’s cheaper. I actually wouldn’t care if they threw me in a landfill, but I think funerals should be celebrations of life, so open. Although open or close doesn’t necessarily mean one is sad, and the other is a celebration.

Closed casket were I to have one, but I want to be cremated.

I would like my friends to gather and tell funny stories about our time together.

Depends – it I am messed up from an accident, definitely closed.
I am all for burial as long as the estate can carry the expenses.

As a Christian one of the things that I think about a lot is the resurrection of the dead. The Christian Bible teaches that God “in the twinkling of an eye” is going to raise up remains to immortality. This is physical bodies. I do wonder lots about this—- the whole idea that because we have lived on the earth, that is to say, have taken human form he honors that “starter kit” that we have held, that unique DNA we have had, and wants to incorporate it into our eternal new selves. This is a lot to wrap the mind around but God is very detail oriented.

Cremated. Ashes scattered over the Emigarnt Basin Wilderness area of the Sierra Nevada.

I say that because the State of California will not allow you to be buried in a compostable coffin and planted in the garden. I was thinking I’d like to have a vegetable garden planted over me, and a nice memory meal a year later from the harvest.

I’d like an open casket when I die because it will be my absolute last chance to show everyone my rugged handsomeness. Provided that I’m intact, that is, when my number is up.

I want my body to be crucified at a KISS concert.

…because they will probably still be touring when I die, undoubtedly.

No casket (or even an expensive urn) for me. I would like my friends and family to gather in remembrance of me, but I don’t want it to be a stuffy procession.

I won’t need my body any more. However, my family will need to grieve/morn and celebrate my moving on. They know my beliefs. I will leave it up to their judgment as to how they gather and remember me at my funeral.

I’m Catholic. I will be buried in a casket.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard I hear ya. I think Gene Simmons has even the grim reaper running scared.

I hope, that when I go, I will have lived a life worth celebrating. :-) I imagine a hymn fest. Lots of singing, and happy faces, laughing and remembering. No casket, just celebrating. I am confidant where I am going so I hope my family and friends will celebrate for me.

No casket, hopefully -too expensive. If absolutely necessary, closed cardboard.

I’d like my body to be cremated on a pyre, set on top of Roseberry topping ( A favourite walk of mine ) during a moonlit night……. The body stitched in to a Hessian sack surrounded by wild meadow flowers…..

maybe cremated. Then I would want my ashes thrown out into the wind so my soul may be free.

I want to be cremated and I wanted to be dug into our blueberry bushes to give them back some of the joy they gave us. But we sold our place and I don’t think I can make that request of the new owners. I’m looking for suggestions as to what should be done with the ashes. I don’t know how my kids would react to the directions: Put the ashes in a coat pocket with a hole in it and let them dribble out as you walk along a beach or in the woods.

I would like to contribute my skull to the skull throne, my fat turned to soap, my skin turned to leather for furniture, my bones into buttons and cuff links, my organs donated, and my penis put on display in the Smithsonian just to show how big of a dork I was.

I want whatever organs still worthy of donation are left to be donated. If there are parts that can be donated to medical research, they are welcome to them. Whatever may be left I want cremated, put in a pretty tin and placed wherever my loved ones see fit. My preference would be a garden or tossed into the ocean, but I’ll let them choose.

Any donations for training cadaver dogs . . . .?

@Kayak8 : What I said above was contingent on all uses having been made of me that were reasonable, including training cadaver dogs. Then I assume they treat the remains in the manner asked for, in my case, cremation.

I hope they discover a way to stop the aging process before then…

@HungryGuy well if you’re around between 2030 and 2050 they will have.

I would like a closed coffin. Every funeral I have been to that has an open coffin, regardless of how good they looked, or how good a job the mortician did, or how close to them I was, I have always thought “That’s a dead body!”
I would prefer a celebration of life, if it can be done quickly. I hate hearing someone died, and the celebration of life will be in 2 months. Nuts to that. 5 to 8 days wait, max.
I even have a picture for display at the event. It’s a photo of me standing with Death, taken outside Disneyland a few years back. What could be more appropriate?

@JilltheTooth ummm, cremation would not be helpful for training CADAVER dogs. Now, ash dogs are another matter entirely!

@Kayak8 : I meant cremation after the training.I thought that was clear…

If my family hires a particularly skilled mortician I might just look better in death than I did in life, in which case open casket all the way :)

Honestly I don’t care, whatever my family wants is fine.

I’d like to be cremated and my ashes distributed among a few people.

Ambrose Bierce style for me, please. From his Wikipedia bio sketch: In 1913, Bierce traveled to Mexico to gain a firsthand perspective on that country’s ongoing revolution. While traveling with rebel troops, the elderly writer disappeared without a trace.