I want to be put straight into the soil to decay and share my energy with the system. Our current methods takes this energy out of it, which is a waste.
I am not New Age, my decay being food for the creepy crawly's is the energy I reference.
While I agree with the people below who say it doesn't matter since you will be dead anyway,my experience of friends and family dying is that it helps the people left behind to come to terms with the death if they feel they are doing what their loved one wanted. It also gives them something to do, organising it, which helps to dull the immediate grief. For myself, I really love the sea and I would like to be dropped overboard somewhere with plenty of fish to eat me, but in the UK that isn't allowed - you have to be wrapped up and weighted down because of the danger of getting washed ashore. Woodland burial with a tree planted over you is becoming very popular in the UK, and I think that would be my other choice. At least you are giving something back.
Green.
I had my wife cremated. After the fact I found out that cremains don't go back into the environment very easily. Seems they are SO sterile, for having been burned at such a high level of heat that they just aren't ready to be resorbed by, or be of any use to, the environment.
Subsequent to this, I found out (through TED) about what are basically body farms. They find a nice peaceful spot, drop you there and let you sleep your time away... granted, you aren't really sleeping.
In my case, because I had my wife cremated and because I know about the environmental toxicity of cremains, I'd like to have her cremains put into my body cavity (no other embalming fluids, though so water would be nice) before I am laid out to rest... in hopes that MY body will help her cremains be accepted by the environment.
Other than that, I'd prefer a wake, remembering how I lived, versus how I died. Hopefully someone can dredge up a good memory and drink to it.
Oh, and maybe seedling cherry trees to feed upon my corpse. My wife and I both love the look of Cherry when worked into a cabinet or pretty much anything...
I would prefer to be planted with a tree. Failing that, cremation.
I don’t care. I’d prefer my body be used for medical purposes, but I would be fine if it was just thrown in the dumpster.
I don't want to be buried. I want to be cremated and maybe have one of those urns that nourishes a tree. Before cremation, though, I want any organs that are usable to be donated, and if they can't be donated, leave my body to a medical school. I figure someone did that for me (I'm a physician) so why not pay it forward?
I won't care what happens to my body. I'll be dead.
Id like to be dragged straight from where I die to the trees in planted and just buried near them with no evidence it actually happened with no funeral or anything. as I can't do that I'm going to be sprinkled after cremation with no funeral bullshit under the trees I planted.
I want to be cremated, and the urn disposed of. And for goodness sake, no funeral.
I'm waiting word from the University so I can be donated for science or whatever
I've always thought the cremation idea was the most socially acceptable lesser of the evils. I've opted to donate everything to science and transplants, so hopefully there isn't much left but I'd consider this if it were easier to accomplish.
I don't want to be buries, I want to be creamated
Ya gots to do something with the cremains.
It is legal, usually referred to as a Green Burial. That is my plan.