How do you want your corpse prepared for your funeral?

[Daughter of Cernunnos]

I hate the modern Western corpse disposal methods so IDGAF. If promession becomes available or alkaline hydrolysis I want either of those. Eco embalming is something I like the sound of as well.

 

[Abethedemon]

I want my bones to be separated and have a reproduction of a different page of sonichu carved on each of my bones. Then present me in a museum.

 

[Damocles_Sword]

I want them to do the thing where they turn your husk into a diamond and I want said "me diamond" set in my rifle so my spirit might guide it's bullets into the hearts and minds of my descendants enemies for generations to come.

 

[Ravenor]

I've given this some serious thought over the last few years -

Immediately after death, I wan't any of my organs that are viable for donation to be used as such with the exception of my eyes (duno why).
I want to be cremated, only because if there is a afterlife I want to know if my bloods flammable or not because if it is I win a fiver (sorry private joke).
My Ashe's I want scatterd in the River Mersey, from one of the tall ships that's still around.
As for my worldly good's I have a will to take care of that that covers a lot of eventualities so I wont sperg but I'm giving a significant portion of my wealth to Charity.

 

[Heimdallr]

I want my corpse placed upon a long ship filled with timber and placed out on a river. I then want a flaming arrow shot at my boat, to send my spirit to Valhalla

 

[JU 199]

I'm never going to die

 

[Rabbit Bones]

I want to be donated to the local medical university. I don't really care about my corpse, so being cut up by med students doesn't bother me. At least some good will come out of me kicking it.

 

[AnOminous]

I want to be donated to the local medical university. I don't really care about my corpse, so being cut up by med students doesn't bother me. At least some good will come out of me kicking it.

It would be neat to be able to donate it to the Body Farm, a scientific facility where forensic anthropologists study what happens to dead bodies left outdoors in various circumstances, for law enforcement investigation and other purposes.

 

[Warning]

I want to be stuffed with popcorn before I'm cremated.

 

[RI 360]

 

[Polexia Aphrodisia]

After watching Adam Ruins Everything's episode on death, I realized I just want to be cremated, put into a nice large Mason jar, and sprinkled into the Pacific Ocean. I don't want a huge funeral (especially not in a church), just char me up and toss me to the fishes. Funerals and caskets are so expensive and impractical.

EDIT: Or that thing where they press your ashes into a record. But I don't know what song I'd want to play. Right now it would be Arlo Guthrie's "I'm Going Home".

 

[Jan_D3]

I will probably have my remains cremated and then buried in front of a solid bronze statue of me that will act as a reminder to people from my own organization how I suffered in the hands of my enemy.

 

[Ulfric Stormcloak]

Use my organs if necessary. Kinda off topic, but does anyone know if gay men can be organ donors? If not...I guess cremation.

 

[A Potato Named Vodka]

I want to be cremated. My ashes will be stored in the last bottle of vodka I've drunk. My liver will be donated to science.

 

[i_love_kiwifarms]

I WILL HAVE NO OTHER WAY BESIDES CRUCIFIXION

Hope my clones will use my entrails as their Christmas tree decor

 

[Todesfurcht]

I've told my family members that if I died young (aka anytime soon) that I'd love to have a Snow White funeral.

 

[Cuck Norris]

lol why the fuck would i care i'd be dead

 

[Jacquetta]

Rig up the coffin so if my obnoxiously excessive fundamentalist extended family ignores my wishes and decide to hold an obnoxiously excessive fundamentalist christian funeral one of my friends can push a button mid sermon and the coffin plays pop goes the weasel and out I go onto the floor. Jesus won't save you from cleaning up that mess, folks.

Jokes aside, chuck me in a hole, put a tree over the hole, buy some land around the hole and make a dog park. I love dogs. Dogs being around me forever would be a nice thing for me to look down on, assuming there's some kind of afterlife. Also, it'd make dogs happy! Happy dogs make everyone happy.

(except people who are scared of dogs, I guess.)

 

[Cheap Sandals]

I want my cadaver mulched by a blender and then hosed into the open mouth of a great white shark.

Edit: At high pressure.

 

[Daughter of Cernunnos]

I like mausoleums a lot and I wish mummification and other forms of long-term corpse preservation would come back in style. That would me my ultimate ideal way to treat my corpse but I know it's not an option that is very available and not something that a lot of people are interested in.

The whole green burial thing where the corpse is unembalmed and left to rot directly in the earth or in a biodegradable shroud or casket is a very popular idea. More "green cemeteries" with unmarked graves on undeveloped land of umembalmed people are popping up all the time.

I am very interested in the death positive movement and fully support them existing and more death related choices in general but I feel the green burial people are supremacists who think their way is best. Even Caitlyn Dougty who says she is for choice and wants resomation to become more common called embalming with eco-friendly fluids "greenwashing" which I totally disagree with.

A lot of people seem to have some spiritual reason for preferring their body to decay directly into the earth so they can be "one with it" or something like that. I can see why they would like the idea and the importantance of Caitlyn's and other death pos work on making people less afraid of decay but I don't like the moralist assumptions of some of the advocates of this burial method that people who want their body preserved are vain, shallow, conceited, don't care about the earth etc. There are just as many valid spiritual reasons for preserving a corpse as their are for letting it rot in the earth.

I even got into a fight with a French Canadian dude who runs the only org in all of Canada advocating for green burial and I asked him if the org advocates for the legalization of resomation too and he said no because they are only for the "greenest" method which is so called green burial apparently, even though there is a company who makes mushroom shrouds to cleanse the toxic substances released by a rotting corpse. I am skeptical that this burial method is as perfect as its adherents make it out to be.

Green burial suit which I called a shroud but its technically not:
http://coeio.com/infinity-burial-suit-2/

I'd donate my body "to science" but there are no for profit companies for this like there are in the states that make everything easy. I'd have to find a uni that would find my body helpful. I do have two rare diseases but most of the research being done on those conditions is taking place in the US. I think donating my body for med students to cut up would be a waste because I am skeptical how similar an embalmed corpse really is to a live person, the health risks for them breathing in the chemicals and I am mad I can't use my body to help understand my diseases better.