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Landos Mustache · 03:51 PM

Cremation for me. I don't want to rot in the ground.

Or launched out of a canon. Whichever is easier.

invisibleX · Jul 25, 2006, 03:52 PM

Don't matter to me, so I'd say cremation.

Although I have always wanted to be involved in the art scene.

davesimondotcom · Jul 25, 2006, 03:53 PM

Cremation for me - spread some of my ashes in the left batters box at Cobb Field in Billings, MT, some of them in Red Lodge, MT (where my grandparent's ashes are) and do whatever with the rest.

Landos Mustache · Jul 25, 2006, 03:54 PM

Originally Posted by invisibleX

Although I have always wanted to be involved in the art scene.

I think it looks cool but I wouldn't want it to be me.

Mastrap · Jul 25, 2006, 03:56 PM

Freeze drying

Landos Mustache · Jul 25, 2006, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by Mastrap

Freeze drying

That's pretty cool. I also saw a method where they turn you into a diamond. Wouldn't want to wear something like that though.

greenamp · Jul 25, 2006, 04:02 PM

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

That's pretty cool. I also saw a method where they turn you into a diamond. Wouldn't want to wear something like that though.

Although it would a bit funny if you were broken up and sold as the real thing in engagement rings.

lpkmckenna · Jul 25, 2006, 04:03 PM

http://www.lifegem.com/

Very cool idea.

Landos Mustache · Jul 25, 2006, 04:06 PM

Originally Posted by lpkmckenna

http://www.lifegem.com/

Very cool idea.

Yikes, that site has some rather strange religious statements.

black bear theory · Jul 25, 2006, 04:07 PM

sky burial. otherwise, science.

Judge_Fire · Jul 25, 2006, 04:08 PM

Usable parts into recycling, rest cremated and, well, dust to dust.

J

Salty · Jul 25, 2006, 04:13 PM

Cremation, with my ashes thrown in the face of James Dobson or whoever's running focus on the family at the time. Either that, or perhaps my body parts could be dismembered and used to creep out my enemies. Think my left arm could scare Gates?

Doofy · Jul 25, 2006, 04:25 PM

I am Doofy MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod. I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel. And I am immortal.

invisibleX · Jul 25, 2006, 04:27 PM

Salty reminded me. Would it be possible to be resurrected as some sort of ghoul, or zombie if you will, possibly in the pursuit of brains?

Landos Mustache · Jul 25, 2006, 04:29 PM

Is having your body or just head frozen still cool or was that more of a late 80's thing?

Doofy · Jul 25, 2006, 04:33 PM

Originally Posted by invisibleX

Would it be possible to be resurrected as some sort of ghoul, or zombie if you will, possibly in the pursuit of brains?

You can do that before you die.
--> http://www.democrats.org <--

black bear theory · Jul 25, 2006, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by Doofy

You can do that before you die.
--> http://www.democrats.org <--

seriously.

MrsLarry · Jul 25, 2006, 04:40 PM

Originally Posted by lpkmckenna

http://www.lifegem.com/

this is totally what i want to be!!

Ulrich Kinbote · Jul 25, 2006, 04:45 PM

It's a toss up between being plastinated by professor Gunther von Hagens, and being cryogenically frozen and sent into orbit, like Dr. Evil.

Eug Wanker · Jul 25, 2006, 04:50 PM

invisibleX · Jul 25, 2006, 04:51 PM

Originally Posted by Doofy

You can do that before you die.
--> http://www.democrats.org <--

Aww doofy, you're so cute when you try to troll.

Seriously though, isn't there some cults and what not who are all about raising the dead? I really think that might be for me.

ironknee · Jul 25, 2006, 04:53 PM

donate any parts that someone can use, then cremation...i like george carlin's idea of being blown up.

TheoCryst · Jul 25, 2006, 05:19 PM

Assuming I have any usable body parts left, I'll donate whatever I can, then burninate the rest. I feel a little bad depriving the worms of food, but I'd rather just get cremated and be done with it.

Pyro till the end! WOOHOO!

Landos Mustache · Jul 25, 2006, 05:20 PM

Originally Posted by TheoCryst

AI'd rather just get cremated and be done with it.

Ya it is like pulling a bandaid off quickly

TheoCryst · Jul 25, 2006, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

Ya it is like pulling a bandaid off quickly

Exactly! Why rot away for decades when you can just disappear in a puff of smoke?

davesimondotcom · Jul 25, 2006, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by MrsLarry

this is totally what i want to be!!

You are a gem in my book, MrsLarry.

Rumor · Jul 25, 2006, 05:39 PM

I want to put on a raft, pushed into the ocean and lit on fire.

mac1896 · Jul 25, 2006, 05:41 PM

i'm going to be launched into space, where finally, my brains and body can be re-united !

Sourbook · Jul 25, 2006, 06:09 PM

Soylent Green.

Cody Dawg · Jul 25, 2006, 06:17 PM

I want to be cremated and if I'm dead before my husband he can save my ashes for when he dies or vice versa because we've decided we want to both be cremated and our ashes combined and buried in a pretty place.

greenamp · Jul 25, 2006, 06:21 PM

Originally Posted by Mastrap

Freeze drying

That sounds like a cool idea, but seems like it could have the potential to lead to some really unhealthy attachments to the planted trees.

I know if my wife died and I planted a tree in her compost, I'd obsess over the tree and would probably talk to it as if it were her.

Cody Dawg · Jul 25, 2006, 06:25 PM

greenamp

That sounds like a cool idea, but seems like it could have the potential to lead to some really unhealthy attachments to the planted trees.

I know if my wife died and I planted a tree in her compost, I'd obsess over the tree and would probably talk to it as if it were her.

Then you should feed her to pet parrot and maybe the bird will talk back to you after a while.

itai195 · Jul 25, 2006, 06:27 PM

Originally Posted by TheoCryst

Exactly! Why rot away for decades when you can just disappear in a puff of smoke?

I dunno, cremation has always seemed a little creepy to me. My wife feels the same, we'll both be worm food I think. Not that we'll care by that point.

greenamp · Jul 25, 2006, 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

Then you should feed her to pet parrot and maybe the bird will talk back to you after a while.

Good idea. I could also plant a pomegranate tree in her compost. That way I could still enjoy her fruit at least.

itai195 · Jul 25, 2006, 06:35 PM

How mythical of you

Nicko · Jul 25, 2006, 06:36 PM

Something like this,

Rumor · Jul 25, 2006, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by Nicko

Something like this,

That should be made into an emoticon.

andreas_g4 · Jul 25, 2006, 07:16 PM

I don't care. Maybe dogs want to piss on it.

Salty · Jul 25, 2006, 07:48 PM

You know... I wonder if the pastors at my old church might want my head to stick on a pike as a warning to others?

Rumor · Jul 25, 2006, 07:58 PM

What does that have to do with this thread?

ghporter · Jul 25, 2006, 08:20 PM

I voted for cremation, but my classmates and I (in Gross Anatomy) have had discussions about donation to science. That basically allows the remains to be used for "scientific" purposes, including Gross Anatomy classes. We thought it would be good to have tattoos (maybe after death) with "cut here" and "identify the structures beneath this skin." Maybe it's a Gross Anatomy thing, but we all thought it was funny.

olePigeon · Jul 25, 2006, 08:52 PM

Cryostasis until they can cure aging (or whatever it is that ails me.)

Eriamjh · Jul 26, 2006, 07:13 AM

I want my head in a Jar like Futurama.

Kevin · Jul 26, 2006, 07:22 AM

Originally Posted by Rumor

What does that have to do with this thread?

He is trying to make this thread all about him.

DeathToWindows · Jul 26, 2006, 08:22 AM

Traditional burial (as anything else is absolutely forbidden by my religion) - but, if possible (e.g. I don't die of a communicable disease or similar) I'd like my organs to be used for transplantation.

Figure, my body is around - but I've hopefully saved some lives post mortem.