Regardless of your religious beliefs or philosophy, how would you like your body to be handled when you die?

Question

Anything goes.

Me? I'd like to be cremated/burned. That's mostly because if I'm simply mistaken for being dead and am not really, I'd rather receive a few minutes of blinding pain than a much longer time slowly suffocating and going out of my mind.

(Deistic agnostic)

Oh, and if you want, please state your "religious classification".

Lots of great responses. Never expected so many answers!

Answer 1

I want my ashes spread in Vice President Cheney's face and eyes.

"But, sir, it was this man's dying wish."

Answer 2

First of all, I'm an organ donor! At least someone good will come from my death.

If I have the money, I want to be mummified. That way, in a few thousand years, movies will be made about me coming back to life and wreaking havoc. I don't believe that preservation of the body is necessary for having an afterlife, like the ancient Egyptians believed. How fair would that be? Anyway, the Earth isn't going to last for ever, so everything on Earth will eventually perish, so then no one would get an afterlife.

More realistically, I'll be cremated so I can return to the earth easier, and I won't be taking up land by decomposing in a box. My husband also wants to be cremated, so we'll probably get mixed together.

Recently though, I found out that ashes can be turned into diamonds, so my husband and I joke about being made into a pair of earrings when we kick the bucket!

(Eclectic Pagan)

Answer 3

I am a Christian...and I want be Cremated...I have already told my family
this, and after awhile they all finally agreed...
I am on the Donors list, so after they have harvested what they want...Cremate Me.
I just can't see laying in the ground, plus it
costs so much to do this...and I want my ashes to go into the Lake where I use to play when I was a child...I have alot of wonderful memories from that lake...what does it matter anyhow, after being Cremated, you turn to dust, so it makes
no difference where you wind up.

Answer 4

Paupers burial or science donation.


Cremation is polluting, and I'd rather the energy released in combustion go to the plants and not to the atnosphere.

Paupers burial for above reason.

Science (if we still need it [ie no workable mechanical organs] to help others.





The whole embalming process is a waste of resources and bad for the environment. So is cremation.


I DO care about what happens to my body after it dies simply because I'd like it to be as useful and beneficial as possible.

Answer 5

I'm Christian. I'd like to donate whatever organs can be used for someone else and then be cremated. I want my ashes spread in Ireland, since I'll obviously never get there in life.

As for fears of being buried alive; don't worry. As part of one of my seminary classes, we visited a funeral home where they explained how they prepare bodies for burial (why that was necessary, I don't know). Before they embalm your body, they remove most of the internal organs, something about leaving them in there will result in the abdomianl cavity filling with gases and exploding--that would be a he** of a way for people to remember your funeral, now wouldn't it.

Answer 6

Make sure I'm dead, and then cremate me. Dump my ashes in the Pacific to the tune of "Respect" by Aretha Franklin. Sort of a "redletter"Christian-pantheist-agnostic..

Answer 7

Be burned so I can at least attain a part of my death wish (Die in a big explosion) and then 1.) If I'm single, get shot up into outer space during a shuttle launch and then be dumped in space, and 2.) If I'm married, I would want to be kept by my wife, and when she dies to mix our ashes together so we can truly be one in body, because our spirits will be forever entwined, might as well our bodies too.
I'm an Atheist, (Oh, an Atheist can be romantic *gasp for the Christians who think Atheists are immoral*
-EDIT- I would also want any usable organs to be donated to science.

Answer 8

I don't know, each time i think of myself as being dead i somehow imagine like i'm stil there in that body, therefor both cremated or burried gives me the creeps. I guess i'd rather be left in the sea.
I am a christian

Answer 9

I am desirous of donating my body to a nearby medical college. I believe that when one dies the body can be best utilized in that way i am of opinion that one should be treated in the best way by all when that person is alive and there is no meaning in doing anything after death.but none in my family has agreed to this so far i think i will have to make a will for the purpose

Answer 10

Christian.

I don't believe that it really matters what happens to this lifeless vessel when we die. GOD will put us back together and give us a new body. Besides, cremation is just an accelerated form of natural disintegration.

GOD bless

Answer 11

Yeah, I agree. I'd like to go with the cremation and maybe my ashes can sit in a jar/urn on the fireplace and my family can look at the urn and think of me and the good times.