How do you want to be disposed of?
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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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Don't care really, probably the cheapest method. Worm food or ashes, when you're dead, you don't have much to say about it...
Cheers.
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Hi Mike, your poll does not include the possibility of not wanting it at all ¡¡
How do you want to be disposed of?
NO WAY
who knows now if humanity is going to reach the point of no more dying to get to know ?
remember we are all now in crucial times
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@juanv.soler said:
Hi Mike, your poll does not include the possibility of not wanting it at all ¡¡
How do you want to be disposed of?
NO WAY
remember we are all now in crucial times
cheersYou make it sound like the global economy is going to be so bad that we are going to grow frugal and avoid the expenses of dying
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I want to be dipped in bronze and turned into a fountain - where the water comes out is up to your imagination.
Actually, I'll be dead, so I won't care at that point. Just as long as there is a large monument to my modesty.
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Or carbonite.
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That's what solo wants (shot into space). Is the name "Solo" a coincidence? Well, maybe not HanSolo but PeteSolo...
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I'd like to be wrapped in a compost bag, with a whole load of tomato plants embedded in my rotting body, and for the fruits of those plants to be consumed by other human beings! Then I should stand a better chance of being part of humanity again, rather than becoming a fly or a worm!
There's been a few deaths in my family recently, from MS and Alzheimers. My brother in law, who is only 62 has advanced stages of Alzheimer's as well. And I thought cancer was a horrible way to go? Watching your loved ones turn into a lump of meaningless putty is devastating. Can we change the subject??
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TF, sorry to hear about your Brother-in-Law. Alzheimer's is tough on everyone involved. But I think its a good thing to have a little thought on the matter in hand as it helps to put things into perspective.
Juan, so you want to live for ever. I thought about it and decided that I would not want to. I think life at around 250 years old would be quite boring. But again we are all living longer. If you go back a couple of hundred years, 40 was old age!
I must look this up as I think it could be interesting
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..... I was not too far out. Check this out Life expectancy variation over time. Juan, your great great great great grandchildren could be living to a couple of hundred years
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imagine 250 years to live from now
with death secured
and ...
enjoy
to die is disgusting
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I though the lyrics to this John Prine song would be appropriate in this discussion.
Woke up this morning
Put on my slippers
Walked in the kitchen and died
And oh what a feeling!
When my soul
Went thru the ceiling
And on up into heaven I did ride
When I got there they did say
John, it happened this way
You slipped upon the floor
And hit your head
And all the angels say
Just before you passed away
These were the very last words
That you said:Chorus:
Please don't bury me
Down in that cold cold ground
No, I'd druther have "em" cut me up
And pass me all around
Throw my brain in a hurricane
And the blind can have my eyes
And the deaf can take both of my ears
If they don't mind the size
Give my stomach to Milwaukee
If they run out of beer
Put my socks in a cedar box
Just get "em" out of here
Venus de Milo can have my arms
Look out! I've got your nose
Sell my heart to the junkman
And give my love to RoseRepeat Chorus
Give my feet to the footloose
Careless, fancy free
Give my knees to the needy
Don't pull that stuff on me
Hand me down my walking cane
It's a sin to tell a lie
Send my mouth way down south
And kiss my ass goodbye -
Excellent Dale
It just about says it all.
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