How do you want to be disposed of?
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Hi Guys,
Okay, its a bit morbid to talk about such things but its one of the two things that are certain.
I thought there were only two legal options, burial or cremation, but I've now learned that there is a third 'green' option.
Resomation and corpse-composting: green alternatives to cremation and burial
I wonder will this become popular
Mike
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I'm hoping I can be included on a Body Farm.. if not regular ol' for science for me...
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Well, I remember when we smuggled my great-grandparents to Slovakia...
They had been cremated however. You can imagine if not...
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Cremation. Sprinkle me somewhere I'd like to be. Burial plots are only for 100 years anyway, and after that nobody will likely care who I was. Everything returns to the Earth eventually, so the only thing different about resomation in the end is the low energy use compared to incineration or manufacturing of a casket.
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I've always liked the idea of being buried in a cardboard coffin and a tree planting above me, no gravestone.
To be honest, I guess it could easily be a cremation and my ashes sprinkled under trees now I think about it.
I no longer have strong feelings about these things. -
I'd actually like the local medical school to be able to use me as a cadaver, hopefully helping a kid learn something from me finally.
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especially your liver?
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Cremation for me, but did you know you can now get your remains turned into a diamond! So your family can still see you shine everyday.... but my missus says there's no point for me as you can't polish a turd
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If life goes my way, I will have a motorsports complex on I10. I'd have myself gilded and statured somewhere on the premises.
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I want to be shot out of a cannon so I can go out with a bang.
Actually a professor I had in the Fine Arts School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was shot out of a cannon. He even made it onto Youtube.
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Wonder how much it would cost to be shot into space?, in some kinda pod, with my rigor mortised right hand forced into a Spock greeting.
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Last I checked, you could have a gram of ashes shot into space for around 5000.00.
Edit: $1500-$5000 for LEO, $10,000-$45,000 for the Moon or other.
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I always thought the Sleeping Beauty thing was cool but Im going for at sea unwrapped just weighted down...Goodfellows style...
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Cremate me then fertilize the grape vine that contributed to my undoing.....
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Morbid but inescapable. Another eco choice would be a cardboard coffin (for either burial or cremation) in a woodland cemetery. Fairly minimal impact and as traditional as you would like it to be.
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As cheaply as possible. The average cost of a funeral I believe is between 2000 and 3000
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I didn't think there would be much reactiion but it looks like members do think about such things. I have a spot picked out for my ashes in County Kerry. It's on a mountain that can be reached via a road that links Inch Strand to Camp Village. I have even shown it to my wife but have a feeling I will have to write it into my will if I want it done.
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@watkins said:
As cheaply as possible. The average cost of a funeral I believe is between 2000 and 3000
Mmmm, I wonder what is the cheapest way of doing it? I suppose shark feed must be one of them?
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Do you know how much it costs to go on a shark-seeing tour?
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My grandparents were cremated and ashes were buried under a tree in the "Life for a Life" scheme. Suppose it's a nice place to go and "see" them, but I had a feeling the scheme is run by con-artists...
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