As an atheist what do you want done with your remains when you die?
I want to be fed to something or to be buried in a simple coffin with an oak or elm tree planted over me.
I'm thinking an old fridge box and a trip to the landfill.
Eww! I hope I'm not the one who finds your grisly remains!
@smoyle Another good reason to avoid dumpster diving or rummaging around the landfill site.
Definitely cremation. That way, they can keep some of the ashes and then do that thing where they put my ashes in a pod of dirt and plant me so I can grow into a tree or something.
Yes! Thatβs what I want too. Iβve also seen where they take the entire body and put it in pods. But I want to be cremated first. Itβs a really great idea.
I donβt know if I will actually carry it out, but I visualize a self-cremation. I might build a pyre, get it burning, climb on and shoot myself with my pistol, thus making a joyful and dramatic exit and side-stepping the medical and funeral industries as well as silly bureaucrats.
A friend told me that it would be a shame to burn up a perfectly good pistol. I have the feeling heβd come over and do the job if he got to keep the pistol.
I'd never do it, but I've thought about something like that. It'd be either that or a Viking funeral, but with my luck, I'd burn to death while cursing at a hopelessly jammed pistol.
already set up to go to my alma mater. eyes are being donated first.
I'd like to be cremated, and have the ashes compressed into a gemstone, so I could be mounted in a ring or other heirloom piece, and worn by my descendants on special occasions.
"Mom, can I wear Grandpa Derek to the prom?"
"As long as you don't loose him, sure! He'd love that!"
I like that idea... Trees growing from our remains.
I want to be cremated, put in my girl friends douche, and get in there one final time.
Charming.
Are we still in the douche age?
@Ellatynemouth Just a silly, humorous response. I am assuming we are all adults here.
@Ellatynemouth Actually, I have willed my body to a teaching medical hospital. What they do with it is entirely their discretion.
@DarwinistOne I never was.
My first choice would be to have my remains donated to science and let them use whatever the heck they want to. I'm dead, what do I care.
Second would for me to be cremated and scattered over various places that I really like. Maybe also pick a nice spot and plant a tree where my ashes are mixed with dirt used in planting the tree.
I don't really get the point of graveyards. We don't need to bury our dead. That just seems like a waste of space.
Cremated and then my ashes spread in either a vineyard or Gobeklitepe. I can not fathom the thought of being buried in a box filled with chemicals. What a stupid concept.
Told my husband to cremate me and put me in a pretty urn...
I want to be made into diamonds for my only daughter.
My usable organs will be harvested then I'll be given to science. Once they finish with me I'll be cremated and my ashes will be given to a buddy of mine who will incorporate them into several large aerial fireworks which will be launched over my farm so my ashes will return to the land I've farmed all these years.
I really don't give a shit. The crematorium can keep the ashes.