Design your funeral

[Lirille]

What do you want done to your body after you die? Why?
(if you're unimaginative, here are some ideas: http://legacyfunerals.com/burial-methods.html)

Any special requests for your funeral?

 

[Quintessence]

Any practice that impedes proper decomposition or sets up some sort of permanent memorial is abhorrent to me for its selfishness. Beyond that, I couldn't care less what other humans do for "my" funeral.

 

[Neo Deist]

Cremate my body, put my ashes in a living urn, and then plant me. My ashes will grow into a mighty oak tree that will provide shade, a habitat for animals, food for rodents, limbs to climb on for children, and life renewed.

 

[Kemosloby]

A shallow grave with some rocks on it, so the animals don't dig me up.

 

[BSM1]

I want to have a Viking funeral but my cheap brother-in-law won't let me use his new bass boat.

 

[Father Heathen]

Probably donate my corpse to medical/scientific research and education.

 

[Tarheeler]

Just a standard Jewish burial.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

What do you want done to your body after you die? Why?
(if you're unimaginative, here are some ideas: http://legacyfunerals.com/burial-methods.html)

Any special requests for your funeral?

I'd most likely be cremated. I'd rather wash away in a clean ocean rather than over here were the waters are muck green and brown. I'd let my family have a choice to keep me in an urn since I find physical objects become sacred when the spirit of a soul is in the object or place they died or inhabit. That, and, that I know of, my intermediate family aren't prayer warriors. I'm young, compared. I remember saying I wanted the Lion King sung or played at my funeral when I was younger. Circle of Life. Everything goes in a circle. Let me be part of the earth and ocean.

 

[Vinayaka]

Cremation. Ashes dispersed in a great river.

 

[buddhist]

Being turned into a lifegem might be interesting, if my family liked that idea.

 

[Jeremiahcp]

This will work for me. Just toss my corpse in:

 

[SalixIncendium]

Any special requests for your funeral?

The only one I can think of is I'd like to be dead first.

Other than that, I have no preference of what happens at my funeral. Funerals are for closure for the living, not for the dead.

As for interment, my only requests are to not be embalmed and to be buried at my plot next to my daughter.

 

[Quagmire]

I want to be smothered in A-1 sauce and dropped from a plane over a wildlife preserve.

 

[RabbiO]

Just a standard Jewish burial.

As will I ----- but if you don't mind I'm not going to rush it.

 

[Jainarayan]

Cremation. Ashes dispersed in a great river.

Same for me. Preferably my ashes brought or sent to India.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

A Catholic burial in the Bay Area of California, by my mom's burial site.

 

[Lirille]

Answering my own question, my only preference is that my former body's organs are donated, if possible. I don't have any special requests, mostly because I don't want to burden my family - I believe they should do whatever is cheaper or more practical with my remains. If the cremation is the chosen method, it is my belief that one should wait 72 hours before cremation, to allow the complete detachment between spirit and matter.

 

[BSM1]

I want to be smothered in A-1 sauce and dropped from a plane over a wildlife preserve.

If you're already dead wouldn't smothering be redundant?

 

[Vinayaka]

As for the funeral itself, my cousin, who was terminally ill from cancer, wrote his own eulogy and message to the survivors. His son read it for all in attendance. One of the better funerals I've ever been to, if not the best. I think I'll do the same, if the opportunity presents itself.

 

[BSM1]

As for the funeral itself, my cousin, who was terminally ill from cancer, wrote his own eulogy and message to the survivors. His son read it for all in attendance. One of the better funerals I've ever been to, if not the best. I think I'll do the same, if the opportunity presents itself.

I'm writing and putting mine on a DVD to be played at my memorial. This takes the burden off everyone.