Burial or cremation?

So, you're dead.

How would you like your loved ones to handle your remains? Would you like them to bury you in the ground or burn you to ash?

If you chose burial, where would you like to be buried?
If you chose cremation, where would you like to have your ashes stored or scattered?

Um I already know this one a burial is best for me.

I think my parents will bury me in a cemetery that has all my other deceased family members. Just to keep us together I guess

Well, this is a morbid topic...

Burial. I know it's expensive, but the thought of me becoming ashes sorta freaks me out, as childish as that sounds. I know either way I'll end up becoming dust, but I feel a burial would be proper. Besides, I don't think my parents would want me to be cremated.

After donating as many organs as possible, I'm definitely going for the cremation route. There are so many people that die (100% of the population will die at some point) and if we keep burying them all we are so gonna run out of room. So I think it's better to have your body turned to ash and either given to your loved ones or scattered into the atmosphere.

I understand why people go for burial, there's a psychological aspect to it - but I think I'm more comfortable with my body being turned to ash than being eaten by worms underground XD

As for where I'd go? I'd want a bit of the ash put in a jar on the mantelpiece of my family members so it can creep them out, because I have a sick sense of humour like that, and the rest I want scattered in a nice garden. I think it would be nice to spend eternity among the leafage, it'd be a nice place to rest.

Cremation. Donating organs after I die, so I figure what's the point in keeping the rest of my dead body. Burial is expensive and it takes up space that can be used for someone else. As far as where I'd what I'd want done with my ashes? I dunno. Maybe just dump em somewhere. Dunno where exactly though. No real reason to keep me around, being dead and all.

I'd like to be cremated. I don't want to waste space in the ground or make my family pay for a funeral. I don't know where I want my ashes, I'll have to decide that later, just dump them somewhere lol, I'll be dead I won't know.

I'd rather be buried somewhere in a cemetery than be cremated. If I was cremated, then I want my ashes to be kept somewhere safe just so my family would have something to remember me by.

Shining Raichu said:

I understand why people go for burial, there's a psychological aspect to it

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There's also the psychological aspect of rotting until nothing as you're eaten by critters lol. Yuck. So yeah, I'd definitely rather be cremated (as I think I said in a different OVP lol) but only after my organs are put to good use. :D

Shining Raichu said:

As for where I'd go? I'd want a bit of the ash put in a jar on the mantelpiece of my family members so it can creep them out

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Lol. I would never do this, however, since I think it would creep ME out more than them. Just scatter me in the ocean or better yet put me beneath a sapling just please, PLEASE, don't keep me in a creepy jar on top of your mantelpiece for eternity. Ugh.

I might donate my body to science. Maybe I'll end up in one of those body farms where they study decomposition under different conditions. Which would be neat. But I might end up as a head for plastic surgeons to practice one. Which is... okay, I guess. If I died young enough that my organs were still useful to someone then they can have them, but usually only young people have organs that anyone wants and I don't plan on dying young.

I don't think I'd go with cremation. That's a very polluting business. The thought of having my ashes scattered someplace meaningful to me seems like it would be good for people who cared about me, but still. And burial seems so unnecessary and wasteful. I don't think I'll rise from the dead or anything so why bother?

I would hope I'd be able do that thing where they freezedry your body and then shake and vibrate it until you break apart into tiny, tiny pieces so I could be used as fertilizer for a tree somewhere. It's supposed to be very environmentally friendly. I don't think it's legal in the US yet though.

Well, first my organs will be donated and...after that I guess I'll get cremated. I'm not sure if the body farms would take a body with no organs, but that would be the only other alternative.

See, I don't want anybody to be left with a giant bill to pay when I die, so I want whatever's cheapest done to me. I don't even think I want a funeral, really, but that's not up to me. It wouldn't be for me anyways.

And what to do with my ashes would also be the decision of whoever wants them. I would hope for some sort of clean disposal though, if that's even possible. Not that any of this is going to matter to me.

I'm gonna be cremated. Then, they can scatter my ashes on the grill while my family roasts up some hot dogs and hamburgers and be all liek, "Gee, Jacinth's really with us today!"

Ha, quote from my dad. XD

All joking aside, I would really like to be cremated. I want my ashes put in a hole and a tree planted there. I know ashes from bodies have a lot of nutrients, and I think that since I took a lot from the earth while I was here, I can give it back. So that tree would become a part of me, and the seeds would go and be planted all over the place, and there would be more trees that were grown from the tree that was grown from my ashes... It's fascinating, isn't it?

And even in fifty years when that tree would be cut down, the sawdust (That would indirectly have my ashes) would go through the air and people would be breathing me! SO FABULOUS!

You can donate your organs after you're dead?!? o____o

Uhm, I dunno why but I feel like I'd rather be buried than cremated. Although I'm dead, so surprise me. xD

I HATE funerals. So I plan to be cremated with no service whatsoever. I really would not care where my ashes end up, but if I had to pick just dump them in the ocean somewhere. Doesn't really matter.