Spending eternity on a golf course sounds okay. Just put my ashes in the widmill.

Well, how about golf courses? If that is not a waste of land...
I have donated my body to the nearest university medical center, so surgeons can learn to practice their skills. My body leftovers will eventually be cremated and returned to my family. I have made a pact with my grandson. He will build a little wooden boat, place my ashes in it and set the whole thing on fire to float on Lake Ontario.
I agree with you, we need to do away with burial grounds. Besides using land , it also contaminates the ground water. And please, stop using lead lined coffins. Unless you are zombie, you won't need you dead body anytime after death.

I love graveyards, especially in cities - they're usually quiet and provide an oasis for wild animals and plants, as well as a beautiful place for locals and people working in the area to get away from it all during their lunchbreak, making them especially valuable in built-up areas where there are no parks. That sounds like a pretty good use of the land to me!

I had my husband cremated and his urn placed at his mother's burial site, with a small memorial stone. This to make his first generation children happy, and to signify he belongs to his family now. When my intentions were made known, his sister's husband brought her ashes up and we had a small family memorial service. Rural country cemetery, no muss, no fuss. No extra land use. There can always be an alternative.

Recycle anything useful... or feed the fish.

Cremation for me no use to take up space someone could use.

Dont care what happens to my body I won't be there to care. I would prefer mt body not go to waste iand im put under a tree or something.

Cremation or the 'forest' cemetery for myself.
My ashes shot into space would be nice.
I think it's wasted but it won't stop any time soon.
The concept of memorial needs to change.

My one remaining superstition, if you want to call it that, is that even though it won't matter because I will no longer exist, I am really creeped out by the idea of being embalmed. WON'T let it happen. Cremation is a fallback if I don't get my act together in time. Cremation contributes to air pollution and I don't really want to do that either. I also don't want to be sealed away from the earth of which I am a part. I want to go back to it. I want to make Green Burial arrangements. Unfortunately there's nothing available near where I live, yet.

There's a beautiful movie on Vimeo called A Will for the Woods. Check it out.

I agree.
Here in Thailand, all Buddhist temples have crematoriums, and even the Thai king was cremated.

Kentucky old money relatives on my mom's side of the family are all cremated and ashes stored in an urn, but I think scattering ashes or making someone's ashes into jewelry is a good choice also.

What a waste of money and resources, at present I am organised to be collected and burnt, so fuss, minimal paperwork, if it becomes possible, a vertical burial, no lot just a hole bored into the ground body dropped in a along with many others, a forest planted above.

I personally do not want to be buried (cremation or other alternative - a tree? for me), however, as a genealogist, this decision creates discord. Cemeteries and headstones are valuable genealogical records. I assuage myself by thinking that record-keeping is more complex and encompassing than it used to be and cemeteries won't be needed to remember people of this day. I hope. But I do love a good cemetery.

Golf courses - now THERE'S a huge waste.

I think humans should be recycled into fertiliser

I agree with you. I would rather be cremated than put in the ground and take up space.

I agree! Spread my ashes in nature and call it a day!

I agree. I want to be cremated.

To paraphrase Rodney Dangerfield (in Caddyshack), cemeteries and golf courses are the two biggest wastes of real estate on the planet.

Every time I pass by a golf course I think the same way.