What is to be done with my remains. - by doctorfrog
Goblin on 14/2/2006 at 09:37
In actual fact, I'd take just about anything except cremation. I want to stay at least relatively intact for a while. While a decent burial (props to Ig, plain old wooden box, no frills) and a modest little stone would be preferable, I ain't going to be too fussy. Toss me over the neighbour's fence, fold me up and stick me in with the recycling on rubbish day, hurl me off an overpass into oncoming traffic, tie me to an empty fuel drum and float me off down a river, hide me in a storm water drain as a prank for city workers. Stick me in a tree with my hand on my crotch for all the neighbourhood kids to see. Just don't bloody burn me up, please.
I'm going to write this into my will, in those words.
Naartjie on 14/2/2006 at 12:24
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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.
A med student friend of mine likes to rearrange all the internal organs in his cadaver and leave them for first year anatomy students to find. Either that or using the body's hand to gently stroke the arse of the person working next to him :eww:
rsawarhawk on 14/2/2006 at 13:08
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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.
I agree, I hope to own lots of acreage by the time I kick the bucket. I hope to have a family plot thingie, no way I want to be buried at some graveyard, its like an apartment complex lol..
In line with that, I don't want cremation, I want to be buried with a flint spearhead, a bronze or steel axe,a compound bow and a gun .. just to throw off the scientist who unbury me in a few thousand years. oh and a granite engraving inside saying with a witty phrase, just incase me headstone has vanished.
or a vat of formaldehyde(sp) with a mechanical device waving my arm hello to passerby's
TheMuffinMan on 14/2/2006 at 14:53
Shot out of a cannon. The mourners will hold a vote as to the target.
Malygris on 14/2/2006 at 15:09
I'm still focused on the whole "not dying" deal, and I'm afraid that if I start considering what's to be done in the event that I actually do die, I'll jinx the whole thing.
But if I ever do go down, I hope that someone present will say a few words. Maybe something like:
"GOD DAMMIT WALTER! YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE! YOU MAKE EVERYTHING A FUCKING TRAVESTY! WHAT ABOUT THAT SHIT ABOUT VIETNAM? WHAT THE FUCK DOES VIETNAM HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING? WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU TALKING ABOUT? YOU'RE A FUCK, WALTER!"
Pitch on 14/2/2006 at 17:42
Two words: Soylent Green.
Ulukai on 14/2/2006 at 19:05
I really wish the human race would stop burying people. Dead people are taking up enough space already. What if in 100 years time someone wants to build a by-pass?
Being blasted into space doesn't exactly seem like a great idea either, as apparently the ones that have been done so thus far (including James Doohan, iirc) are due to orbit the earth for a while then burn up. And it's not like we need more space junk floating about, really.
Obviously then, the way to go is a really big blender and a biomass power station! Oil's running out eventually, but we'll always have dead folk.
Dia on 14/2/2006 at 19:33
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....Obviously then, the way to go is a really big blender and a biomass power station! Oil's running out eventually, but we'll always have dead folk.
I've heard mummies burn really well. ;) (Well, at least the older ones.) I mean, once you're dead, why the hell should you care what happens to your corpse? Opt for cremation (in one form or another) and leave more space for the living (who should really pay more attention to the problem of over-population, but that's a whole other issue).
descenterace on 14/2/2006 at 19:49
Either medical science, or something funny. I'd particularly like any form of burial which is likely to give archeologists a headache in 1000 years time.
