When you die, how do you want your body disposed of?

Question

Apologies if anyone is having a chippy tea ;-)

Came across these photos of a working crematorium/funeral directors -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/gallery/2008/sep/02/photography?picture=337161823

It confirmed my horror of crematoriums...it looks like a cabaret club.

Personally I like the idea of a biodegradable box buried in a field, left to the elements and foxes to pee on.

Answer 1

I'll be pass caring, but have to agree with you. The idea of being dropped in a hole in the ground where re- foresting is happening appeals.

Well, thanks for your confidence, I can relax now.

Answer 2

Surprise me!

Answer 3

Like the idea of that german anatomist (von something that sounds like an ice-cream manufacturer) getting his hands on me and sculpting me into something tasteful for display in an art gallery. Everyones always said I have fabulous bone structure.

Answer 4

After donating various body parts . I will be cremated . I would hate to be buried In a cemetery .I suppose  If I had to be buried then like you a biodegradable funeral in a nice forest does kinda appeal  

Answer 5

cremated

Answer 6

Burnt and dumped

Answer 7

I'm going to leave my body to medical science.  It's of no use to me or anyone else!  I also want to save my daughter the cost of an expensive funeral.  I'll probably ask her to plant a favourite tree or shrub for me but that's it!

Answer 8

In a wicker coffin, a tree planted on top. Preferably a fruit or nut tree so my family can eat me and think nice thoughts.

Answer 9

When my time comes I'm having a cardboard coffin I'm being cremated and my ashes will be thrown to the wind with daffodils over my Mum and Dad's grave. Cheap and simple

Answer 10

Those photos are FAB!!! I love the hip joint lolololol. Guess they dont scatter metal prosthetics with the ashes then?

I want to be buried, tis much more civilised

Edit: Oooh aye lol, I'm gonna live forever, me :)

Answer 11

I absolutely DO NOT want to be cremated the idea appals me. Don't ask me why its just my preference.

I realise I'm probably too young to be thinking about it, but with Kids I have to!!

I want a nice burial in a catholic grounds where people can come and lay flowers and know that I am actually there.

God you made me go all morbid woman!!

Answer 12

I have taken care of the important things to me because I already have a tombstone and plot but what is done with my body is up to whomever is left when I die.  I really don't care what they do.

Answer 13

I wanted to be dumped in somebody elses skip but my solicitor wouldn't put it in my will.

Answer 14

I wouldn't mind, because I would be dead. lol, but I have thought about being cremated, that way someone can let my ashes blow away in the wind, and everytime someone feels the wind, they can think of me...always. :) Instead of traveling to a gravesite, they can feel the wind and look towards the skies to where I will be resting.

Answer 15

Buried in the woods in a woven casket with the trees.

Crematoriums are horrible places, I have hated them for obvious reasons every time I have visited one.

Answer 16

My father in law wants his family to surprise him.

Answer 17

I would like to be cremated in a non-religious ceremony then thrown in the trash.

Answer 18

I want no medical intervention autopsy etc, But i do want my head removing from my body and to be burried in a coffin with a glass viewing window so you can see my face.

Answer 19

Composted and put on my lovely garden.

Answer 20

At the end of your life it's the living that really matter. I feel that once you are dead then you should allow those left to decide. I won't feel it so I don't really mind.

Mind you I will be back

Answer 21

Buried at sea - anything to be a nuisance

and take care of all those who want to dance on my grave.

Answer 22

In a mosolieum (I apologize, I don't know how to spell it).  I don't want in the ground, however, I guess I would if that is where my fiance is going to be buried.  I want to be buried next to him.  I prefer the mosolieum, though.

Answer 23

I am going with mummification, call me old fashioned.

Answer 24

Well nothing really appeals for some strange reason but having thought about it I would like to be left in a field of trees and let the critters have me but I know that won't happen, so second choice is the sea as long as I was free to be but I doubt that will happen either so I suppose it will have to be with the good old soil... I have said under no circumstances do I want to be cremated though, I wouldn't even cremate my pets...

Answer 25

i will have any of my healthy organs removed and donated,this will more than likely be none of them,then i would like cremated to Johnny Cash ,Ring of Fire.send my ashes back home to Rothesay and scattered in the sea at Ettrick Bay.

Answer 26

Don't give a fiddler's f**k.

Answer 27

Good question.

i too lost a family member recently and they were also cremated, and they don't cremate the body till a few days/week after depending on if a autopsy was done, so i'm guessing buildypuss's mother didn't die yesterday.(Sorry to hear of the loss of your mother Buildypuss).

I'd like to be cremated, i clicked the link but only seen metal bits like a belt buckle etc :s I can't see how that disturbs you but the thought of a rotting corpse doesn't.Either way though, when your dead your dead, it's just a body.

Answer 28

Cremated, and the ashes scattered over Tramore bay where I live, may be difficult though as they only do cremations in Dublin.

Answer 29

I'm just trying to figure out what this has to do with media and journalism.

Answer 30

No I don't want to be cremated either. Good old fashioned burial for me.

  

Edit.

I think Jo's Q re coming clean got buried too!!!

Haz.   Hey girl, You ain't goin no place either hunxx

AND.....Maybe I am your MIL!!!!!!  LOL

Answer 31

I'd like to be donated to medical science, then i know i'm doing some good after i die.