My wife and I decided to be cremated upon death. No excessive expense. With some of our ashes spread on the farm and some at my parents cottage in Muskoka. Places we loved. My wife died. I followed her wishes except the minister (still not completely severed of church) suggested I place some of her ashes in the grave At a cemetery so that people would have a place to visit her and show their respects. I thought that made sense so that’s what i did.

The intellectual part of me would like me to donate myself to science, but the something else part of me wants to be cremated and cast to the winds.

And no headstone but a seat placed at St Michaels church in East Peckham in Kent, England overlooking the vale toward the River Medway. There’s already one there but another wouldn’t hurt!

It’s where I grew up and where my mother and fathers ashes are.

As I told the English class I was in at college I want a Belter's service like in Niven's known space books.... After everyone gets drunk and finishes telling tall tales about me as far as I am concerned since I have no need for the rest they can toss me on the BBQ and the cannibals can eat me....

Cremation is the cheapest way to go if you go directly to the crematorium and bypass the undertaker. Last time I checked, it was $800 here in Oklahoma. My husband was cremated and when I go our ashes will be mixed together and after that i could care less. I did have a level headstone engraved for both of us. I did that out of respect for his family and the old fashioned practice of checking cemeteries for family history even though the world is on ancestry.com now.

As a veteran I get a free plot in veterans cemetery near here

I think cremation would be more practical. It’s cheaper and you don’t occupy a piece of real estate for centuries to come.

Rather than further enriching the funeral industry I’d rather the money go to education for my grandchildren.