cremation or be buried?

Question

choose your destiny!

Answer 1

whatever my loved ones will approve...anyways,am not gonna burry not cremate myself...

Answer 2

Whatever method you choose the results will eventually be the same. I believe that humans have developed a completely unnecessary after-death ritual, namely, our elaborate burial dogma.

Having said this, I favor cremation since it is cheaper and your basic elements are returned to the Universe more quickly. Religion, having embraced and retouched the ancient man’s fantasy of an after-life is responsible for the almost pathetic ritual of death.

Either way, there are four basic elements necessary for earth life and earth life is the only life we know anything about. These elements are: Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen and nitrogen. Of course other elements are present and for most earth life forms phosphorus is required.

Sometime after death these elements return to the Universe, (they will remain on earth to do this), if you choose cremation the process will be quick. If you choose some elaborate burial ritual, the process will nevertheless happen; it will just take more time.

So, choose the quick one or the one that indulges your religious fantasy; in the long run, the result will be the same.

Answer 3

Cremation.

I've never liked the whole idea of being buried.

Answer 4

After being in the service and working in an cemetery moving bodies that were from ten to one hundred years old, you wouldn't want to be buried after you've seen them.

Cremation and scattering the ashes over the lakes by the Coast Guard or Navy makes sense to me.

Answer 5

Cremation for me.

Cemetaries are wasteful, taking up entirely too much space and are for the living. When I'm dead, I'm not going to give a rat's a$s if I've got a nice spot under an elm tree at Earthman.

Answer 6

Certainly not burial, I don't want Anthropologists digging me up in a couple of million years, and telling the world that I was some sort of mutant which was related to monkeys and that all the different nations at that time actually believed in different Gods, that they were very violent and the vast tribes went to war with each other. They also had this thing about sex, it was the sort of be all and end all of living, if you did'nt have a regular partner of the opposite sex, that was ok you just went and got yourself a partner of the same sex and used his anus as a vagina. I believe they had a word for them, Gays, I can just picture the folks hearing all this for the first time, I can hear the screams of laughter from the school children, I am so ashamed of being a part of the 21st century

Answer 7

Cremation. It's good for the earth...not to mention I don't want anyone coming to my gave either to mourn me or destroy the site. Let me rest in real peace, and let the rest of the world move along as well.

Answer 8

Cremation - an earth-friendly way to leave this earth. No wasting of materials for my coffin, no disturbing the ground from the digging. Burn me up and use me to fertilize the soil.

Answer 9

I would not want to buried, I hate closed spaces to much. Besides it's so much more fun to float around as ash all over the world. Who wants to sit in a box for the rest of their death?

Answer 10

Cremation. It's cheaper and environmentally cleaner. Also, I don't have to worry about grave desecration and some kid lighting a candle in my skull while telling ghost stories.

Answer 11

Cremation, after I donate my body to science. Why use up good real estate?