I just saw a video on composting . Being a gardener , of the options available - burial , cremation , donated to science or for practice by doctors , I would feel so much better if my remains were composted . A nice side issue is , if you should happen to discover you aren't dead yet , you can still get out . On the other hand if you really are dead , once composted you can relive life as a beautiful flower kissing birds or bees and sitting in the warm sunshine .

I'm sticking with regular cremation.
Although, the idea of becoming part of an artificial reef is appealing.

You could frame it as a burial at sea.

When you die it want matter to you anymore.

After I die, why would I have a problem with what my remains are mixed with? Granted, it's unsavory to think of while I'm alive, but it won't be something I experience. I'll be dead.

Think of it like a water slide?

I don’t think you’ll know the difference after you’ve died…

I have donated my body to the local medical school, I figured I might as well be useful

There are many different ways now than cremation or burial. I like the option of being buried and being fertilizer for a tree.

I'm going to have a basic simple cremation.

Aquamation is better for the environment and uses less energy. I'm in.

Back in the 70's, a friend visited a research facility in the Arizona desert. One thing that they did there was boil bodies which were found and too far rotted so as to use the bones for identification. He got to witness it; he also passed out when they lifted up a femur and the flesh fell off; he blames the odor.

I’ll take fire, thank you.

Of course, I won’t be around to know what happens, but I wouldn’t willingly opt for sludge.

You will be dead and won't know anything about it. Regardless of what or how, everything returns to basic elements of nature.

My mother-in-law had a "natural" burial. They dug a hole and her body was place in it with a biodegradable shroud (a wool blanket). That was it. No embalming, no casket and no vault. I decided at her burial that that is what I want. I purchased a plot in a cemetery that allows such burials. Unfortunately, unless you pack your loved one in dry ice and transport him/her to the cemetery, you still need to involve a funeral home and they find ways to jack up the price. A funeral home located near the cemetery I purchase my plot wants over $4000 to "prepare" me and get me to the cemetery. And that does not include transporting my body from wherever it is that I die (the plot is almost an hour from where I currently live) to the funeral home. Here is a link for more information and maybe even a cemetery near you. [greenburialcouncil.org]

My dream, wordless " ceremony " is a simple closed pine crate, with an appropriately located and sized hole drilled in the lid, and the largest whitest dildo the sex toy industry makes protruding to the hilt. A small oscilating battery powerel motor rigged in from the inside would be a nice touch ..........a laugh for my friends. Then the simplest green burial possible where the elements can recycle back to the biosphere. Nothing else.

I'm all for doing my part for the living and living ecosystems after I die - organ donation and green burial. With 65 million people dying worldwide each year, it adds up to significant biomass.

Sky burial - the corpse is consumed by vultures - as practiced in Tibet, Nepal, and India appeals to me. Too bad it's not available here. I'd be glad to be eaten by birds or fish after death.

I like the concept of being turned into a coral reef, I love scuba diving but if that is not possible then no fancy things and put a tree on me one that the possums, and birds will like I think that would be ecologically sound.

I would worry that the chemical they use to goopify you would be harmful to the aquifer or possibly wildlife. Cremation is the next option with a traditional burial before being goopified.

I didn't know that.
Seems like a dead body's matter
ought to be useful, not just sewage.
Becoming fertilizer sounds good.

"Soylent Green is people!"
One of the most unintentionally humorous lines by Charlton Heston ever. And he had many of them.
The tree pod thing sounds appealing. Thousands of dollars to plant a body in a shiny cocoon priced more than a luxury car seems a tremendous waste.
But as others pointed out I will be past caring.

I dunno. In comparison, I'm going to have my body harvested for whatever they can use, and I'm sure that's not a pretty process. Then whatever's left will be cremated and given to my daughter to do whatever she sees fit. That may include being flushed down the toilet. But as it's no longer me, I really don't care.

I wonder, though, what's the benefit to water cremation that you would want it instead of cremation by fire? It seems like a lot of extra steps for a reason I don't understand.

Who the fuck cares, you will be dead anyway.

Ohferpetessake,like you will care at that point?

I'd need to learn more about aquamation but what you described makes me feel a bit squeamish. I performed a funeral service for a woman who requested a celebration around the pushing of the incinerator button. It would take some getting used to the idea of pushing a button to make Julie soup. I'm also having a hard time wrapping my head around it, but the same goes for any new idea for me.