How can I ensure I will be fossilized?

Go to the arctic and just sit there intill your frozen…
Wasn’t there a guy who was found a few years ago in a chunk of ice?
You could also do what people did to the mummy’s…..

Climb into a casket, and have a friend fill it with tar. Then, have another friend dump you off by an Alaskan road. Not only will your remains be discovered, but you will make quite an impact. Thus, you achieve another form of immorality: being remembered as the crazy guy in a tar filled coffin forever. You’ll be a legend…just like the headless horseman.

Hmmmm. The fossilization part is not that hard. The issue of future discovery creates a conundrum. Must think on this…...

Make sure to papier mache your body before you die. That way, you’re already on your way to immportalization.

Ancient embalming techniques, salt, sealed plexiglass coffin with a radio transmitter inside it.

Sorry, but your immortality lies is what you leave behind in the hearts (figuratively) and minds of those you love and who love you. A fossil is like an echo of an echo of a sound, a crude mould of the outside shape of an object.

Even mummification preserves only a very rough facsimile of the original body.

If you want to be remembered, seek to impact on the lives of others so that your acts (hopefully good) resonate with others long into the future.

Tar pit because you are a tar baby.

Trap yourself in a block of amber. It would be hard to miss and you get the additional bonus of having some nut drill some DNA out of you so you can be cloned and terrorize an island.

Well, in order to ensure you are rediscovered, you could register your burial as a time capsule. All you’d have to do is ensure your next of kin takes one of these easy steps to make sure you become fossilized.

You might also be able to donate your body to the Bodies Exhibit

get trapped in some sediment at the ocean floor

Kiss Nancy Pilosi…you will turn to stone and get your wish!

Just don’t throw me in that thar briah patch Brer Fox.

It’s funny you bring this up, I just passed my 65th birthday and we were talking about how long someone’s memory lives on after they die. And it is not very long. My nieces and nephews do not remember their great grandparents names, neither do I.

But really, I don’t care if I am forgotten. I plan on being more memorable in my next life, heheheh!

@Spinel It would be great if a person could ensure that they would be known by future history based on the strange way you were buried. If I could mess with future historians like that, I would do it in a heartbeat.

Think about getting a group of like minded people, all arranged to be buried in the same bizarre and completely meaningless way in the same cemetery.

I can imagine the confusion that would ensue amongst future historians. If I had a chance of doing that, I would do it in a hot heartbeat just for the chance of confusing historians.

Try cryonics. It’s expensive though, I’m told. But you’ve got a 23.97% chance of getting revived in the year 2082. See you then.

@mattbrowne- I’m not looking to be revived. I want to be on display somewhere in 100 million years. A fossil of me, that is.

@AstroChuck – Floating in space would be another option. It’s $20.000 per kilo of payload right now. How about going on a diet? You could also wait for the space elevator though. Prices are expected to fall.

@AstroChuck – I thought you already were an old fossil! ; -)

@@rooeytoo- We could always exchange birth certificates if you’d like. :)

No need chuckie, I know I am!

:)

I think you can by freezing yourself forever

Jump in a vat of liquid lead… Lead is cheap. Or you can get frozen in Carbonite, like Han Solo.