Cremation or ground burial for yourself?

Flames.

Cremation, my wife wants the same for her. I’m friends with the local Funeral Home owner he knows that is my wish. Need to put it in a new will though !

I’d actually like to be dismembered and have my body parts scattered throughout elementary school playgrounds.

Cremation, unless I get planted in one of those compostable pods.

I want to be cremated or turned into a tree. Larry King’s idea of being cryogenically frozen is growing on me, though.

Cremated and then snorted.

XWD, please.
A handful of peppercorns and a toss of sea salt would be nice, but I don’t expect anyone to rub me with fresh garlic cloves. ~

I want to be processed into canned food with the label: “suitable for vegetarians”.

Cremated and hopefully someday, someone will be able to fulfill my wish of my ashes being scattered in the lake I grew up swimming in at my grandfather’s.

Donate what you can, study what you can’t, and do whatever the hell you want with what’s left after that.

My parents requested that their bodies be cremated at the time of death, the ashes mixed together, and then scattered in a wooded area that they had come to love for over 50 years. Mom died ~20 years after Dad did, but we children upheld their wishes. It was an emotionally moving family-oriented ceremony carried out the way they wanted it’ll be.

Like the parents, I desire to be cremated. My life is not worthy of the cost of a fancy casket and space in a cemetery. I can’t imagine that the loved ones left behind would need a specific place to pay their respects.

Neither. I will throw myself into the meat grinder at a sausage factory.

@ragingloli How will you do that if you are already dead?

by being a zombie, of course.

Honestly, were it legal, I’d just as soon be buried. No embalming, no casket. A low cairn might be nice, and keep the animals from digging me up too soon.
Maybe in a cow pasture.

Cremation. SO much cheaper! More money for the headstone!

Cremated. Because I don’t want my bones dug up in 2000 years and put on display. The world can kiss my ashes!

My donor card says parts of me will be used if they are useable and that is fine.

I have a burial plot, my wifes idea, that I do not intend to use.

My first idea, to be stood upright in a longship with a motor hooked up to my arm so I waved as I slowly drifted out to sea until the explosion engulfed the ship in flames and sent it, along with whatever was left of me, to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico was nixed by both my children and my wife (spoilsports).

By my estimate it would have cost no more than your standard everyday funeral service, casket and burial plot.

Subsequently, I have requested that what is left of me be cremated and put into a container (I need to have one fabricated) and placed on one of my childrens mantle to eventually be passed down generation to generation until I can have my ashes scattered on Titan. This has been reluctantly agreed to; but only because I threatened to come back and haunt their toilet bowls, flushing at random and inopportune times, if they did not acquiesce.

Hmmm… but what if I was buried in a casket full of mustard??

Packed in ice & left in storage at the local supermarket, aisle have thawed shoppers would stare

Cremated and scattered would be nice, turned into a tree would be lovely, but whatever I do will be after consulting with my loved ones who are hopefully going to be my survivors, and will hopefully want to weigh in with their opinion. After all, if I want to be cremated but my survivor (which will hopefully be my daughter) says she really wants to be able to visit a grave site, then I’ll go that route. If she says “whatever you want, mommy” then I’ll do whatever I want.

Cremation definitely. Preferably after being carted there in a cardboard box or something similar. I don’t see the point of a fancy expensive casket. I want to be disposed of in the most environmentally friendly way.

@Earthbound_Misfit if you are looking for the most environmentally friendly way, wouldn’t that be just to buried without a coffin? Another option is to request to go to a body farm.

Buried without a coffin used to be a tricky task, @Pied_Pfeffer, because of antiquated health-concern laws.
It may depend on the jurisdiction.

I was also thinking that for someone to be buried without a coffin would mean that the people digging the grave would actually have to touch the dead body. That might not be in the realm of their job description or their capabilities.

The things you can learn on Fluther!
@jca.

@ibstubro: I know there are body bags, but I’m saying maybe there’s something that says the body has to be in a hard box. I guess the real thing to do to research is look at the local laws and also the job descriptions of the grave diggers.

Here is a burial pod with the body put into a biodegradble container to be the fertilizer for a tree.

What a nice way to reforest, and have a tree for survivors to come visit!

@jca there are places where one may be buried without a casket, but there are restrictions on the land.

@jca: “for someone to be buried without a coffin would mean that the people digging the grave would actually have to touch the dead body.”
#1. Gravediggers are not usually in charge of interment, as modern graves are dug with heavy equipment, requiring a license.
#2. Standard body bags of “rubber (and now plastic)... are much superior, not least because they prevent leakage of body fluids, which often occurs after someone dies making them unsuitable for organic burial.
#3. It appears biodegradable body bags might have to be stocked 40 days in advance, requiring pre-planning.

How sad if the tree died, @zenvelo.