Which would you prefer - buried or cremated?

[Zippy]

not now obviously, but when you kick the bucket?

I've always had an absolute fear of being buried alive(I can't even watch that Kill Bill scene). So there's no way I'm being stuck in a coffin. It's burn baby burn for me.

Plus cremation is so much more enviromentally friendly. We can't have all these coffins and bodies crammed into our earth everywhere. Plus gravestones and cemeteries. Just reduce us to ashes and stick them in a jar or whatever.

My sister said just last week that she doesn't want cremation in case the heat wakes her up and she's burned alive. I said, bitch if you wake up in a coffin it'll be a far more unbearable drawn out death.

I'm absolutely sure that some people have somehow regained consciousness in a coffin and then slowly suffocated. But how would we ever know?

So now my sister wants to be buried with a mobile phone just in case. :/

so which would you prefer?

VOTE NOW!

[Jordan.]

Cremated.

Mainly because I don't want digging up in a few hundred years by the Time Team and have everyone thinking I was some murdered middle aged woman with no identity.

[InOne]

Cremated, don't want no dodgy waking up in the coffin ****

[Zippy]

Cremated.

Mainly because I don't want digging up in a few hundred years by the Time Team and have everyone thinking I was some murdered middle aged woman with no identity.

:joker:

[Vicky.]

Hmmm..the real question is would you rather be burned alive, or buried alive :tongue:

I would rather be cremated. I dislike the thought of just lying under the ground rotting and being basically worm food :bored:

[Kerry]

Lob me in the bin for all I care. Not like I'll know

[Zippy]

Hmmm..the real question is would you rather be burned alive, or buried alive :tongue:


well yeah, if you're paranoid about not actually being dead like I am.

but obviously some have religious beliefs or whatever that dictate their thinking. I don't so Im being totally practical and covering all possibilities.

[Joelle.]

Probably cremated, though I wouldn't be too keen on being mistaken for coffee granules.

[Zippy]

wasn't there a case just recently of a woman who woke up in her coffin at the church...then died of shock! :laugh3:

I shouldn't laugh but it was better for her to wake up there than when she was buried 6 feet under. But it just shows that not everybody is truly dead when pronounced as such.

[Stu]

I don't adhere to any spiritual doctrines or beliefs that my dopey, trivial existence is somehow sacred beyond the love my family and friends of likewise existence have bestowed upon me so I would love for my remains to be disposed in a really daft, self indulgent way and that can only mean chucking my dead ass in the big body boiler.

I'm not sure what my method of choice would be yet. Tupac Shakur has already done the smoking the ashes thing. The blasting of ashes into space thing has been done as well. Maybe someone could be on hand to snort dead Stu up their nose or something.

[Vicky.]

wasn't there a case just recently of a woman who woke up in her coffin at the church...then died of shock! :laugh3:

I shouldn't laugh but it was better for her to wake up there than when she was buried 6 feet under. But it just shows that not everybody is truly dead when pronounced as such.

I remember laughing at that story then feeling horrible about it for ages :D

[Omah]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14114555

A Glasgow-based company has installed its first commercial "alkaline hydrolysis" unit at a Florida funeral home.

The unit by Resomation Ltd is billed as a green alternative to cremation and works by dissolving the body in heated alkaline water.

The facility has been installed at the Anderson-McQueen funeral home in St Petersburg, and will be used for the first time in the coming weeks. It is hoped other units will follow in the US, Canada and Europe.

The makers claim the process produces a third less greenhouse gas than cremation, uses a seventh of the energy, and allows for the complete separation of dental amalgam for safe disposal.

and :

Freeze drying

Another "green" alternative to cremation is in the pipeline. Susanne Wiigh-Masak, a Swedish biologist, has for a decade proposed a technology she calls Promession.

The process involves a fully automated and patented machine. Coffins are fed in one end, and the body removed from the coffin within the unit and then treated with liquid nitrogen.

The body is then vibrated until the body fragments, after which the remains are dried and refined further, and then passed through filters to remove metals, including dental amalgam. The remains are then poured into a square biodegradable coffin, again automatically, for shallow burial.

:idc:

[Shasown]

Personally I would prefer not to have need of either a gravedigger or a crematorium.

As freddie Mercury asked, who wants to live forever?


I'll tell you who.... ME!

As for preferences in the likely demise of me, doesnt bother me, I will be dead, if I aint before the post mortem, I will be after it.

Besides am an organ donor, so not sure life without a heart lungs liver and kidneys would be that much fun.

[King Gizzard]

Not particulary bothered

[Grimnir]

i would prefer to be frozen and revived in the future

[Lewis.]

Cremated for me. No way you can wake up alive then, and if it was in the middle of the cremation process then you wouldn't last long I'd imagine. Saves space too and my family can do whatever they want with my ashes afterwards as I'm not too bothered - wont be around to have it effect me anyway.

[Kazanne]

Cremation for me too,I also have that fear of being buried alive,would idealy like to be frozen,but due to the expense it'll be cremation.

[MTVN]

Even if you did somehow wake up alive having been buried you'd only last a few minutes anyway before you died because there's so little air. I think I'd rather be buried, not for religious reasons or anything, I just don't like the thought of having my body stuffed in a crematorium and reduced to a few ashes

[Niamh.]

I want to be cremated definitely, the plan is that whoever dies first between me and Gav will keep the others ashes till they die then our ashes would be mixed together and scattered (awwwwwwwww)

[King Gizzard]

you so soppy

[Niamh.]

you so soppy

:love:

My friend wants her ashes to be mixed with paint and for someone to paint a picture with it, it's kind of cool but a bit creepy at the same time, I wouldn't fancy having that picture hanging in my house :shocked:

[King Gizzard]

bit..pretentious? (probably isnt the right use of that word but oh well..)

[Niamh.]

bit..pretentious? (probably isnt the right use of that word but oh well..)

haha, nah she's not pretentious, she just loves painting and art

[King Gizzard]

She should get Neil Buchanan to paint it

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K9TR7GZjKTg/TS0YG2pd2LI/AAAAAAAABJ4/4kafmO7TG5M/s1600/art_attack.jpg

[Niamh.]

mwhahahaha or Rolf Harris :amazed:

[King Gizzard]

Too busy getting jiggy with Kangaroos

[Livia]

I don't care what happens to my body when I die. I believe the spirit's gone by then, like getting out of a knackered car. However, if it was possible I would quite to be cremated so that my ashes can be blasted into space.

[fruit_cake]

It's not really a decision I want coz I don't like either option so will let it upto whoever is around to make it for me. I think they can make ashes into diamonds now and turn them into a ring or something that sounds quite nice but don't like the burning bit.

I don't agree with the waking up burning being better than waking up buried alive.. it was fairly obvious from 9/11 that jumping from a skyscraper was preferable to burning to death in a fire

[lostalex]

I want to be cremated and spread directly into the earth. i imagine the molecules in my bodying going up into the air in smoke, and the rest being put back into the earth.

I don't want to decompose. I don't want to become some rotting mess of human soup in a coffin.

[Chuck]

Whichever is cheaper.

[Ammi]

I don't care what happens to my body when I die. I believe the spirit's gone by then, like getting out of a knackered car. However, if it was possible I would quite to be cremated so that my ashes can be blasted into space.

I agree with this, anyone who has seen a dead body will know that Elvis has already left the building so to speak. I guess the thought that I could relate to ashes as ever having been the mind, body and soul of the person I loved is just absurd to me. Everyone to their own though and I do respect that people see it differently and everyones wishes should be respected

[Zippy]

. it was fairly obvious from 9/11 that jumping from a skyscraper was preferable to burning to death in a fire

well not many took that option actually. But yeah, jumping off a huge building and dying instantly on impact probably is better than most other methods of death. In Japan its the most popular way to commit suicide. It's like you fly and then...splat!

[lostalex]

well not many took that option actually. But yeah, jumping off a huge building and dying instantly on impact probably is better than most other methods of death. In Japan its the most popular way to commit suicide. It's like you fly and then...splat!


Most of them didn't even have an option.

[microscope]

I would opt for cremation basically for superstitious reasons. I have this thought that if I was buried that I may awake underground in my coffin with a load of insects eating away at my body, eww :(

[Shaun]

See I like the idea of having a headstone but I'd also rather have my ashes scattered somewhere (like in David Bowie's coffee). So cremation for me.

[Niamh.]

See I like the idea of having a headstone but I'd also rather have my ashes scattered somewhere (like in David Bowie's coffee). So cremation for me.

ew. You could bury your ashes :eureka:

[Stu]

Funk to funky.

[Ammi]

We know Major Tom's a junky

[Marsh.]

But how can you be buried alive when your insides are cleaned out before burial?

[Tom]

I want to be on one of these freaky displays where they turn you inside out

[ILoveTRW]

cremated and spread in the streets of my real world city please

[Doogle]

Cremated. The more I think about it, the less appealing being buried sounds.