Do you know all the options and would it make a difference to you if you found that there were more than you had expected?
2007-03-27 04:52:18 · 22 answers · asked by funnelweb 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am under the impression that in the US there are 2 options. To be cremated and to be buried in a casket, both are unappealing to me.
My desire is to be buried, under a tree, no casket and have a garden planted in the ground above me so that I can feed the flowers.
I can't seem to keep a plant alive in real life, but I know that in my death my body can act as food and then I can finally help plants grow.
2007-03-27 05:01:19 · answer #1 · answered by FaerieWhings 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wasn't going to have a funeral. But, then, a couple of years ago, I was at a funeral and I told my wife that when I die, I want a big funeral where everyone I know is invited. Then, when they're all sitting there in the church or whatever, I'll have some person get up in front of the crowd and say, "The deceased wanted me to give you a message. Get the f*ck out of here and stop wasting what little of your life is left hanging out at a funeral!!"
2007-03-27 05:11:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't want a funeral I just want my remains burned and thrown out in the woods or in a creek. I don't want anyone looking at my dead body, its just an empty shell. Besides I won't even be in there... so why stand over it weeping? I'll be free of this confided space (my body). I'll be floating around checking everyone else out Staying...
Don't cry for me, for I no longer bleed, I feel no pain my soul is free. Together we'll stand again someday but for now I'm just your eye sight away...So don't look for me through your tears, But think of me and I will be near...
S.Q. 3/27/07
Wow.. I feel like I just wrote a poem ""SMILES""
Maybe I'll ask that my family erect a tombstone type slate in my memory and print that on it....
2007-03-27 05:13:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Viking ship burial.
I doubt I will get it though. Lucky I will be dead and gone so I really won't know. But If I was to hang around (like a ghost, which I don't believe), I'd no doubt get very pissed off because my family are a bunch of Christian fundies and no matter how clear I make it in my will, I have no way of making sure they give me a proper Heathen send off.
2007-03-27 05:02:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I want to donate every organ possible, and the rest of me I want either cremated or buried without being embalmed in a biodegradable coffin. That makes me sound sort of like a crazy environmentalist, but a bunch of formaldehyde and such is dripping into our water supply, and people need to start looking at more natural approaches to burial.
2007-03-27 04:58:02 · answer #5 · answered by ....... 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Give the NHS first pick of my bits and bobs, have a funeral outside (burial, I think), then have the mother of all knees ups.
The organ donation and the party are the important bits. The burial is just confirmation to everyone that I'm actually dead.
2007-03-27 05:04:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the only thing I`d like to chose is that I am buried, not cremated, that my body isnt picked apart and that my family chose the songs and words that remind them of me. Every thing else is irrelevant to me!!
I cant stand the thought of not being whole or of being burnt!
I know that there is alot of good could be done with my organs, but I hate the idea.
2007-03-27 05:25:14 · answer #7 · answered by mrssandii1982 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just what ever makes it easier on my family. As far as me, it don't make any difference. This old body is just a loaner, anyway. Place it in a box, and place it in a hole, I'm coming back one day to claim it and it will be changed to a new Glorified body, No more pain, no more worry,
2007-03-27 05:05:41 · answer #8 · answered by Auburn 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
being an undertaker ive decided i wanna be wearing my Leyton Orient top i dont wana post mortem i dont wanna be embalmed i wanna stay exactly in one piece not being cut open at all and i would wanna be buried in a casket not a coffin id wana be transported in a mercedes hearse or horse drawn i dont expect flowers waste of money and they will die anyway wouldnt like to see anybody crying over me be happy for me as i will be reunited with my nan and 2 grandads
2007-03-27 05:28:21 · answer #9 · answered by Graham N 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Death has no power over me. I will never die. Or at least spirtually anyway. I realy don't care what they do with my body. That is like asking what I want someone to do with my car when it finally dies. Who cares? It's just a shell to carry you around. I won't need it anymore.
2007-03-27 04:58:12 · answer #10 · answered by RedE1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋