Do you obey new anti-Zombie laws?

I’m pretty fond of cremation, actually. Takes care of all of it.

I’d actually like to find out how one could legally have either a Viking funeral, or a funeral pyre in the US.

@Seek_Kolinahr I have considered a Jedi funeral, but the smell must be awful.

How about a Trek funeral? Ejected straight out the airlock.

Space is big – even if you become a zombie, in space, no one can hear you cry “BRRAAAIIINNNSSSS”

Out of the airlock? Isn’t that more Battlestar Galactica?

Would they do the beheading after the viewing before the burial? Because if this was so, I guess I would do it. I don’t want to bury my loved one in some other state. I would like to bury them with the rest of my family that’s already gone.

I’m thinking closed casket with the head setting on top of the casket on a slowly rotating turntable.

* thinks * True, @filmfann – In Trek they’d strap your coffin to a photon torpedo.

Yes and I hope so. I could use the rest.

No, but I’ll gladly fill the grave with concrete if that will make them happy.

@Seek_Kolinahr @filmfann I never could figure out that Federation custom. I suppose it’s symbolic of the naval custom of burial at sea, but in the ocean the body sinks and is not a hazard to navigation. The Klingon custom of blasting with disruptors after ejection makes more sense to this engineer. Of course, doing that would have eliminated the premise of Star Trek III.

No. I’m going to found the Zombie Underground… so to speak.

You’ve been watching Fido haven’t you?

See, and “The Search for Spock” was a great movie, as far as the TOS movies go.

Though I’m not opposed to some disruptor action. I wonder what the Romulan custom is.

According to the ancient tradition of the Choctaw people, the flesh is removed from the bones, which prevents the reanimation of the body, with no flesh to hold the bones together.

I would be honored to perform this procedure for you for a small fee.

Hmm…I guess I would, if it was the law. Eventually it might become ’‘normal’’ to do this. Plenty of cultures had, and still do today, burial procedures which are or were meant to prevent the deceased to return from the dead. Granted though, most of them weren’t actual laws.

@Symbeline Like the ancient Egyptians who pulled the brains out through the nostrils, then packed away all the organs in canopic jars.

Works for me.
Preserving a body for viewing and burial in its “natural” state (or as close as possible) is a rather morbid holdover from the American Civil War.
A very close friend of mine (and fellow soldier in the inevitable Zombie Apocalypse) recently passed away unexpectidly. Fortunately he’d made his requests known beforehand and was creamated. At his wake we all toasted the fact that when the time comes, none of us would have the dubious task of slaying him in all his zombie glory.