What is to be done with my remains.

Dia on 13/2/2006 at 14:38

I told my husband that if I die before he does I want to be cremated and have him scatter my ashes in the western part of our five acres. He refused on the premise that it's always windy in our area & I'd just end up getting in his face again.

Hesche on 13/2/2006 at 15:07

My head shall be quick-frozen in liquid nitrogen so it can be mounted on a giant heavily armed android body made of adamantium later.

Only makes sense if the head of my landlord is treated in almost the same manner, just substitute "giant" with "tiny" and "adamantium" with "cardboard". And "heavily armed" with "pest-infected".

Fig455 on 13/2/2006 at 15:29

*prays he comes back as a zombie*

BlackErtai on 13/2/2006 at 16:23

I don't care how I'm buried (burned up or no), but I want to be buried in the family plot in middle-of-nowhere Florida where my dad is.

LesserFollies on 13/2/2006 at 23:26

I too am leaning towards the medical science option. I sort of like the idea of med students playing practical jokes on each other with my bits and pieces. :cool:

Rug Burn Junky on 13/2/2006 at 23:30

I don't want to be embalmed or cremated.

I'd prefer to have my body ground into mulch, and planted somewhere without a coffin beneath a weeping willow tree so that I can be reincarnated as an Ent.

The Sleeper on 14/2/2006 at 00:49

Burn me up, take the lid off then hang that coffee can out of the car window and drive like a bat out of hell.

We gave my grandfather a similar treatment. He asked to be cremated and the crematorium gave us this small container that reminded me of a Nestle Quik container with the metal lid/stopper that you had to pop out to get to the good stuff. It was going to be a few days before we were scheduled to pitch the old coot off his favorite covered bridge so we decided to take Gramps off to Aunt Betsy's. Aunt Betsy has a pool!!!! Gramps isn't exactly waterproof. Nothing duct tape can't fix! While we are at it let's make Gramps a raft since no one wants to pick the bugger up off the bottom of the pool all day and duct tape is only good to a certain point. Uncle Bob's Styrofoam cooler will work for that. Still a possibility of capsizing. Grab the kitchen knife and cut a hole in the bottom, more duct tape to strap the old fart in. While, Pap floats around the pool polish off a few beers. Ooo, the waterslide looks like fun! I bet Grandpa wants to go down the waterslide too. He does! It was the best afternoon I had with my grandfather.

liquidfear on 14/2/2006 at 00:54

Taken under deep pressure in a submarine and launched from a torpedo tube.

"Fire 1, fire 2!"

Actually, all organs and tissues donated to science...whatever they can use. I figure if someone can benefit from my liver, so be it. A last act of kindness and karma points for me! ;)

This thread reminds me of a story my dad told. When my grandpa died of lung cancer, he was cremated, had the funeral, and then the last act was for my father and his 3 brothers to each have a hand on the bottle, and to scatter his ashes off a particular hill. Nice, sunny, calm day, no wind throughout the funeral whatsoever. When they went to toss the ashes, the only gust of the day blew up, and happened to blow the ashes right back onto the four of them.

"... looks like dad will keep rubbing off on us."
We like to think he pulled that little stunt, and laughed as he did it. It would have been like him.

BEAR on 14/2/2006 at 01:03

I tend to think more how I will go out than what happens to the body. If things go as planned, my body will be quartered, burned and spread to the 4 corners of the earth to dissipate the evil. Or shot out into space only to come back in a hillariously bad sequal whos memory will live on forever.

DinkyDogg on 14/2/2006 at 09:27

I just want whatever is cheapest and gets the job done.