Your final send off...

[Keke Le Cat]

I think being buried is symbolic. Returning to the earth from whence you came. Worm food, fertilizer, etc. Nourishing future generations. It's comforting to me to know that I'll return to the ground. I wish it wasn't illegal to bury without a casket. I'd request to just be lain in the ground in a shroud.

I also like the idea of the viking send off, going up in flames, however that isn't probable in today's society. There is cremation, but the other day on NCIS there was this probable scenario... This crematory was selling the bodies to science for test, completely dismembered. A dismembered corpse like that sells for $20k or so. They gave the family an urn of wood ashes.

If I were cremated I would prefer my ashes to be released into the river or just returned to the earth. But I was worried my loved ones wouldn't discard them.

Urns cost as much as caskets, and people do bury ashes. Unless you make a will I wouldn't count on any of your family fulfilling your last wishes.

I don't like the way funeral home directors manipulate your loved ones.

Is it morbid to think of this? NCIS made me do it!

[The Editor]

Medical science, without a doubt. If I'm dead it's not like I'm going to give a damn if someone cuts up my body a little haphazardly. Hell, I'd be dying knowing that the kid who's practising on my corpse isn't botching surgery instead, and I'm helping save lives. I wonder why some people are so reluctant for doctors to cut their corpses up? It's not like they're using them.

[pichubro]

I want to die drowning. At 100 or so years old I'll go throw myself in a lake and my final words will be: "Don't fish me out."

And since we're using toilets, we aren't giving our wastes back to the earth, so we need SOME bodies to rot in soil for the good of the planet.

[m1n05_4]

I want to die drowning. At 100 or so years old I'll go throw myself in a lake and my final words will be: "Don't fish me out."

And since we're using toilets, we aren't giving our wastes back to the earth, so we need SOME bodies to rot in soil for the good of the planet.

So.. are you going to die drowning in soil? xD That's got to be HARDCORE.

[pichubro]

There's soil at the bottom of lakes you nittwit.

[m1n05_4]

There's soil at the bottom of lakes you nittwit.

Still HARDCORE.

[Keke Le Cat]

More likely the bottom of the lake is covered in silt. And nothing but your bones would make it to the bottom of the lake, unless it was in the form of bird poop.

Besides, I doubt they would leave your body in the lake to be picked at by birds and fish.

[m1n05_4]

More likely the bottom of the lake is covered in silt. And nothing but your bones would make it to the bottom of the lake, unless it was in the form of bird poop.

Besides, I doubt they would leave your body in the lake to be picked at by birds and fish.

She could sink her body with some heavy metal. Wrapped in chains ;D

[Nocturne]

Then whatever purpose she had in going down there would be counterbalanced. She should just inhale tons of argon then jump in. Or wear an argon tank made out of glass.

[Ninetails 009]

In Singapore, it's compulsory cremation by law, and your organs will be harvested for donation unless you opt out while you're alive or if you're muslim, because it's against their religion.

I'm happy with it.

[Mario The Black Knight]

I will die in battle.

They shall bury me with my sword on a hilltop.

[Nidogod]

When I die, I wanna be encased in amber and placed in a titanium coffin so that whatever evolves in the future can clone me.

[Keke Le Cat]

Did you see where they found that frog encased in amber in mexico and the finder won't allow scientists to drill for DNA? They think they could clone the frog.

Not like it could survive outside a bubble anyway... The diseases are totally different today... Plus I am not sure that would be a good idea, it could resurrect some horrid long dead disease we are no longer immune to.

"So you managed to clone a frog that has been dead for hundreds of thousands of years... But you found the original unevolved small pox virus. Sweet."

[Pink-kitty2]

I want to have some ironic death. Or a death which completely screws mankind over.

[pichubro]

"So you managed to clone a frog that has been dead for hundreds of thousands of years... But you found the original unevolved small pox virus. Sweet."

But maybe it has the cure for cancer instead!

[The Lacemaker]

My final send off? Well, it well and truly is early at this stage to be contemplating this, but after death... I suppose I've always assumed to be buried when it comes to that day. I mean, no soul deserves to be forgotten, their life worth simply nothing after their passing. I can say with quite a guilty conscience that more than anything, I wish not to be forgotten. Burial is, like you said, symbolic of returning to the earth. Becoming part of an amalgamation of lives and returning to the very ground of which all has risen from. Now I'm not expecting anyone to tend to my grave each day and lay down a fresh corsage of magnolias and lily of the valley, to mourn by my side in every moment. But even myself, near our town lies the cemetery, and each time I pass it I like to pay just one thought to those people buried there. Even if it doesn't matter the slightest. I guess I'm lucky in a way that not one of my loved ones I hold dear have passed on - I haven't even attended a funeral in my life. But I remember vividly, one day when I was nine years old, my grandmother and mother took me to a sprawling cemetery in the outskirts of Shanghai. I didn't know where we were going, or why. They lead me to this small little grave in the ground, scrawled onto it these Chinese characters I couldn't read. We lay down a boquet and some oranges which we carefully arranged, you know, how people offer food to the departed. And, my mother along with my grandmother began to cry. I had no idea why. The funniest thing was, I started to cry with them, despite not even knowing who this woman was, what she did. I could never forget that day. Years later my mother was telling me that on that day, there lay my great grandmother, and she told me of all the great things she did, the courage she had. She is one of my most admired women in my life, and I never even knew her. I was born after she died, but evne so, she's made such a big impact on me. I wrote about her in my speech and I literally choked out my words while I cried on stage.

I can understand the lack of space and such with some countries with compulsory cremation, but it must be a real shame for those who have an obligation, religious or simply a spiritual thing, when it comes to death and burial. I mean, death is such a huge and sacred time, to everyone. I guess it's up to each individual, after all, there are as many forms of righteousness as there are people, aren't there?

[Pink-kitty2]

I see it as that I'm lucky to have lived at all, so I just want to help the world, even in my death. But there is a little, selfish bit of me that wants to just die by myself, without other people near me.

[Keke Le Cat]

That's really beautiful, Lacemaker.

[Nidogod]

Did you see where they found that frog encased in amber in mexico and the finder won't allow scientists to drill for DNA? They think they could clone the frog.

Not like it could survive outside a bubble anyway... The diseases are totally different today... Plus I am not sure that would be a good idea, it could resurrect some horrid long dead disease we are no longer immune to.

"So you managed to clone a frog that has been dead for hundreds of thousands of years... But you found the original unevolved small pox virus. Sweet."

Oh Hell yeah! I'd be an Extinction Level Event!

[Shadow]

I wish to buried beneath the roots of an old oak tree.

[Keke Le Cat]

Being buried beneath the roots would likely kill the tree. Don't disturb tree roots! have an oak planted where you are buried.

[Nocturne]

Not if he was planted fairly close to the surface.

[Keke Le Cat]

Oh sure, then the wild animals will eat his corpse, great alternative.

[Qoorl]

I want to be broken up and placed in a series of commemerative ash trays.

[God]

well i guess whatever the ceremonial burial for presidents is it will be for me