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THIS IN NOT AN OFFENSIVE QUESTION.
I just want to know what you prefer to your dead body...
> cremate or bury
> what sign will you put in your graveyard
> what ceremony of the death
> should anybody take care of your graveyard (flower)

2007-03-20 15:29:36 · 29 answers · asked by jahn j 2 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

29 answers

Damn, our avatars look similar... anyway, I'd like to be buried in a nondescript pine box somewhere far far away from any cemetaries. No flowers, no headstone. No religious people lying next to me. Just nature. Feed nature, like it fed me.

2007-03-20 15:33:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I want to be cremated and cast over an ocean. No reason, I just think it sounds pretty. I'm donating my organs. I don't care about my headstone, and I'm not far enough in life to predict what will be inscribed anyway (beloved mother, wife, and daughter?). The ceremony can be handled in any way my family wants, and I see no point in people taking care of my graveyard with flowers and stuff, personally.

2007-03-20 22:35:12 · answer #2 · answered by Stardust 6 · 0 0

Not Atheist, but I'll answer anyways....

*I want to buried at sea (dumped in the ocean: ashes or casket or even body, doesn't matter)
*I don't want to be anywhere near a graveyard
*No ceremony, just have someone drop me in the water
*No need to tend to a grave site, unless you count taking care of the ocean, which everyone is doing a pretty bad job with anyways, so I'm not going to worry about it.

2007-03-20 22:34:49 · answer #3 · answered by KS 7 · 0 0

I would like to be cremated and either spread into the wind on a Colorado mountaintop or be sprinkled into the earth in a dense forest and have a tree planted on my ashes. Either way, the last parts of me can go back to where they came from. I won't need them anymore.

As far as a ceremony, I want people to have a party to celebrate all that I was in life, and to know that I lived well.

2007-03-20 22:33:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Idn't it cute how the sides are making up sweet little nick-names for the opposition...Athies...heh heh heh...

As to my remains, that will ultimately be up to whichever of my relatives/friends etc are still alive. My preference is for any of my bits which are still functional to be used for transplants etc, and the rest used for research. I think my brain chemistry might be interesting, as I "suffer" from a couple of mental/neurological illnesses.

I think a tombstone of some kind in a recognised place is important...not so much for selfish reasons, but I don't think it's fair to not leave a trail for those who may wish to follow it. I say this as I do a lot of research into family history etc, but also because I have only recently started "visiting" my grandparents. Ironically enough they are buried in a cemetery which is only five minutes away from where I spent the first 20 years of my life, but it has taken me moving away, coming back, growing up and all sorts of other things to be in a place where I even sought their graves, let alone found them.

Again, farewell ceremony (if any) and care/decoration of my "memorial" will be up to the living.

But I do like the idea of a Viking boat-burning in line with my romantic notion of my Norwegian heritage!

2007-03-20 23:02:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I am donating my body to science. From what I understand after they are done with you they cremate the body and return it to the family. At that point I don't care what they do with it, but I kind of like the idea of being spread in the Ecuadorian Andes, my favorite place on earth, just because I would like to be fertilizer for the plants there.

2007-03-20 22:34:19 · answer #6 · answered by sngcanary 5 · 0 0

Cremated. On my sign I would put my life's achievements. I don't want people to be sad when I die, so just some kind of family gathering. Nobody should take care of my grave because there is no point to it.

2007-03-20 22:34:42 · answer #7 · answered by Wardog 3 · 0 0

Cremate, scatter the ashes over someplace innocuous and beautiful. The ocean will suffice. Have a wake - hopefully people will get drunk, dance and laugh. Come visit the cliffs overlooking that part of the ocean and think of me.

2007-03-20 22:37:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I'm not an Athies, but I am an Athiest.
I want to be buried.
Name, birthdate, deathdate & a tribute from my family.
No ceremony other than loved ones telling how they feel about me.
The cemetery is good at taking care of graves.

2007-03-20 22:35:40 · answer #9 · answered by S K 7 · 0 0

My will specifies that I'm to be cremated, my cremains placed in a paper bag and given to a trusted friend, who is to select a random latitude and longitude in my home state, bury my cremains at that spot, and never reveal the location to anyone.

2007-03-20 22:34:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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