Burial or Cremation or ___?

[YmirGF]

My friend metis is sometimes slow on the uptake. His wife has been trying for 30 years for him to do it "now."

Two movies you should not let your beneficiaries ever watch - Dial M for Murder and Double Indemnity.

I think you're both great fun.

 

[Mindmaster]

I'd prefer that my corpse be kept on ice until it is slightly chilled and then my body is carefully crafted into hor d'oeuvres. Just think of it as sushi with pizzazz!

 

[The Emperor of Mankind]

When I merge with the infinite, I'll be cremated.
Then, my fine white powdery ashes will be mailed
in unmarked envelopes to government offices
around the country.
Booowwwhwahahahahahahahahahahaahhh, etc!

I hope someone names a strain of anthrax after you. Anthrax Strain-85: the Revoltingest strain. And I mean that in the nicest possible way.

 

[Eliab ben Benjamin]

As i have no descendants to visit grave or memorial, have no desire to be embalmed,
quite the opposite in fact, and consider when i next pass on the body is like a discarded
overcoat, to be disposed of.... so cremation, in simple coffin liner, no fuss...
to this end i have already pre-paid and made the arrangements ..

If i could have it my way it would have been disposed in the back garden incinerator...

 

[Revoltingest]

Not a chance to it that those ever cause more ashes.

Just some scurrying around of people in hazmat suites,
& some frightened government aparatchiks.

 

[Revoltingest]

I hope someone names a strain of anthrax after you. Anthrax Strain-85: the Revoltingest strain. And I mean that in the nicest possible way.

And I accept it in the nicest possible way!

 

[Sutekh]

[I don't know how to set up a poll (I'm technologically challenged), so if a moderator could do that for me, I'd appreciate that]

Anyhow, what's your choice and why?

I would prefer burial, at least my spirit could see my corpse being decomposed. I find dead bodies interesting.[emoji4]

 

[Sutekh]

I'd prefer that my corpse be kept on ice until it is slightly chilled and then my body is carefully crafted into hor d'oeuvres. Just think of it as sushi with pizzazz!

Your flesh can make a great bone appetite[emoji4]

 

[ADigitalArtist]

I like the idea of the tree capsule burial (your remains are interred in a biodegradable capsule with tree seed so you help kick up a new tree). But the fact of the matter is that I'll be dead and gone and I'd rather go with the option that has least cost and frustration for grieving loved ones. And that means cremation and scattering with no headstone or grave.

 

[metis]

Done.

Thank you very much!

 

[metis]

Your flesh can make a great bone appetite[emoji4]

 

[metis]

My friend metis is sometimes slow on the uptake. His wife has been trying for 30 years for him to do it "now."

Ya, she says it would finally make me hot stuff.

 

[Aupmanyav]

For me, tradition, continuity. Cremation in the neighborhood funeral ground where my father was cremated, ashes in Ganges at Haridwar where ashes of three prior generations were immersed. However, no rituals, since I am an atheist.

Neither. Gonna try and take my body with me.

Just the body or all things that you own, including the computer/laptop/mobile? Surely, heaven will not be without electric supply.

 

[arthra]

[I don't know how to set up a poll (I'm technologically challenged), so if a moderator could do that for me, I'd appreciate that]

Anyhow, what's your choice and why?

Oh my friend Metis... I think we had a similar thread in the Abrahamic Religion section some months ago...

As a Baha'i we have a procedure for burial and most Baha'is know we do not cremate or have the body embalmed so this is per our laws. It is believed the body which which formerly was a place associated with the Soul should be respected:

"The spirit has no more connection with the body after it departs, but as the body was once the temple of the spirit, we Bahá'ís are taught that it must be treated with respect."

(Compilations, Lights of Guidance, p. 200)

Over the past century in my family I've noted both burial and cremation... My aunt, uncle and grandmother were cremated while my great grandparents, parents and brother were buried in marked grave sites... I have some relatives in a mausoleum. When the grave stone of my great grandfather began to show the wear and weathering of the past century I gladly had the stone refreshed and restored.

I cannot provide this service to my aunt, uncle and grandmother because their ashes were scattered and we know not where they are....

 

[Smart_Guy]

I chose burial. I come from nature, I go back to nature, with a natural method. I think Naturalists should believe so too (if they exist. I just made that name up).

 

[Eliab ben Benjamin]

I chose burial. I come from nature, I go back to nature, with a natural method. I think Naturalists should believe so too (if they exist. I just made that name up).

Smiles knowingly, Naturalists is how members of Nudist clubs identify themselves

 

[Smart_Guy]

Smiles knowingly, Naturalists is how members of Nudist clubs identify themselves

Ooops!

 

[metis]

Oh my friend Metis... I think we had a similar thread in the Abrahamic Religion section some months ago...

As a Baha'i we have a procedure for burial and most Baha'is know we do not cremate or have the body embalmed so this is per our laws. It is believed the body which which formerly was a place associated with the Soul should be respected:

"The spirit has no more connection with the body after it departs, but as the body was once the temple of the spirit, we Bahá'ís are taught that it must be treated with respect."

(Compilations, Lights of Guidance, p. 200)

Over the past century in my family I've noted both burial and cremation... My aunt, uncle and grandmother were cremated while my great grandparents, parents and brother were buried in marked grave sites... I have some relatives in a mausoleum. When the grave stone of my great grandfather began to show the wear and weathering of the past century I gladly had the stone refreshed and restored.

I cannot provide this service to my aunt, uncle and grandmother because their ashes were scattered and we know not where they are....

Thanks, and I do consider you to be a good and very moral friend.

 

[Revoltingest]

I chose burial. I come from nature, I go back to nature, with a natural method. I think Naturalists should believe so too (if they exist. I just made that name up).

I'd choose that if it were legal to just dump me in the ground on the back 40.
While that's theoretically possible, it's entirely impractical.
So cremation is the next cheapest & greenest solution.

 

[Smart_Guy]

I'd choose that if it were legal to just dump me in the ground on the back 40.
While that's theoretically possible, it's entirely impractical.
So cremation is the next cheapest & greenest solution.

You sure? I heard gas is expensive where you live.

Gotta admit tho that your approach is a the cheapest where I live.