Choose your eternal fate!

[fruit_cake]

how are you going to be got rid of??? you DIEcide!

I always thought cremation was best but recently having been to a funeral or two, I think it's better to be buried, at least there's some kind of monolith to remember you by??

Burials:
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSzxVgnZDULSvokHYNTU_iEwnI7uV5cP twFeFG29XGe1aiIp0zj
Cremations
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSy3ecdIE1U9JbNFMkPf_vagbifUlaan Lt2HkmBr2BfC4TqQt1T

In other parts of the world they have buildings known as 'nichos' or 'niche' they're a bit like miniature flats for coffins, which is a third option I suppose.

Nichos:
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRBOmL-rq4kGmpT4cynu7haSelRT-18nmvIkksDXVDk1YJXbvA8

When you're cremated, that's it, as if you weren't even there. I think I prefer Burial.

edit: please put this in the right place mods obviously although the x-factor these days is probably a fate worse than death it's not really in the right section

[Kate!]

Lol Fruity, what a lovely cheery thread :D

I would rather be cremated, my dad was cremated and we buried his ashes in the same plot as my Grandparents, so he does have a memorial site. Don't like the thought of bodies rotting away underground, yeurgh!

[fruit_cake]

Lol Fruity, what a lovely cheery thread :D

I would rather be cremated, my dad was cremated and we buried his ashes in the same plot as my Grandparents, so he does have a memorial site. Don't like the thought of bodies rotting away underground, yeurgh!

tyvm Kate! there's a local church I've been spending quite a lot of time in recently, and now I've got more used to the graves they become a bit less macabre and more like people. I always imagine the grave stones as if they were the people themselves standing there for eternity

[Ammi]

Hadn't really thought about it..your body is just an empty box anyway...cremated, I suppose...

[Niamh.]

I would rather be cremated, I hate graveyards and I don't want a grave after I die. What I would like is to be cremated and also Gav wants to be cremated so whoever dies first the other will keep their ashes and when the second person dies our ashes will be mixed together and scattered awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww :love:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

i want to be stuffed and kept in somebodys house as an ornament or something useful like a hat rack idk

[fruit_cake]

I like the ashes to ashes dust to dust thing they say, It seems more natural to be buried to me

[Vicky.]

I dont particularly care.

But if I had to chose I would say cremated

[fruit_cake]

i want to be stuffed and kept in somebodys house as an ornament or something useful like a hat rack idk

that's a very creative idea Scott, but even if you were old and wrinkly???

[Roy Mars III]

six feet under

[MTVN]

Buried, I dunno it just seems nicer to me, instead of having my body reduced to a heap of ashes

[Niamh.]

Buried, I dunno it just seems nicer to me, instead of having my body reduced to a heap of ashes

Better a heap of ashes than maggot infested imo :idc:

[fruit_cake]

gravestones are impressive memorials though once you get past the spookiness of it imo you only get those with burials

[MTVN]

Better a heap of ashes than maggot infested imo :idc:

Yeah maybe :laugh: and I suppose your body would rot away anyway, I'd still rather be buried though, I don't like the thought of being burned :/

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

that's a very creative idea Scott, but even if you were old and wrinkly???

yeah :amazed:

and at Christmas they could dress me up in a santa outfit and stand me in the front window and stuff

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

Yeah maybe :laugh: and I suppose your body would rot away anyway, I'd still rather be buried though, I don't like the thought of being burned :/

what if you get buried and some maniac digs up your corpse and has sex with it bet you wish you had been burned then :nono:

[joeysteele]

Buried, I am not that bothered though, the majority of my family gone before me have all been buried so I guess I would go the same.

[King Gizzard]

Cremated, don't like the thought of my body decomposing undeground

[arista]

i want to be stuffed and kept in somebodys house as an ornament or something useful like a hat rack idk


Spiffing

[arista]

what if you get buried and some maniac digs up your corpse and has sex with it bet you wish you had been burned then :nono:


Yes they are so nutters that have Sex with Dead Corpses

[Scarlett.]

Buried, usually after people die they have their blood removed and replaced with preservatives and the like (to look alive in the chapel of rest), so they chances of being buried alive are pretty much nil.

[arista]

Buried, I am not that bothered though, the majority of my family gone before me have all been buried so I guess I would go the same.


No they will not be room

Later in your Life
a Official Order will Ensure you are burnt in a Oven
to save land

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSy3ecdIE1U9JbNFMkPf_vagbifUlaan Lt2HkmBr2BfC4TqQt1T


Feel The Force

[King Gizzard]

Hello Mr. Morbid

[arista]

I will be sent in space.

[King Gizzard]

You already got it sorted?

[fruit_cake]

ho ho ho merry xmas

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ3kO58YBmkfJj6yqrlTgGVjoGneQYBQ PWySRLIcXmCbC002yCUUQ

[Kazanne]

I'm leaving my body to medical science,dont want to be buried,not keen on cremation,my ideal would be to be left in a remote place on TOP of the ground and left to the elements,although a crypt may be cool,lol

[InOne]

Cremated, to definitely make sure I'm gone

Don't want any of that waking up in the coffin **** :nono:

[Marsh.]

i want to be stuffed and kept in somebodys house as an ornament or something useful like a hat rack idk

http://rspremiere.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/pete-burns1_e_742644eb773fdd467f65edf0ab1be8d2.jpg

[Pyramid*]

Ach, push my dead & decomposing body into the sea or something; may as well feed the fishes and help the food chain a wee bit.

[Suze]

Ach, push my dead & decomposing body into the sea or something; may as well feed the fishes and help the food chain a wee bit.


Push my body out to sea
Let the Fishies make a meal of me
I'll be dead and gone so what's it matter
serve me to those Fishies on a hardboard platter.

[mizzy25]

im leaving my body to medical science after theyve done wot they want they can prob cremate wots left of ,me

[fruit_cake]

I often wonder what happens if when you die your actually still conscious but just dead

[Niall]

I haven't decided yet. :shrug:

[King Gizzard]

You must decide right now Niall

[Niall]

Or what? :suspect:

[Bollo]

Fired from a cannon a la Hunter S Thompson style. Then cremated with the ashes forming part of a gemstone for someday to wear as a nice ring... I saw a program where they can do that now..

[arista]

I haven't decided yet. :shrug:


Typical.





Feel The Force.

[Niamh.]

Cremated, to definitely make sure I'm gone

Don't want any of that waking up in the coffin **** :nono:

tbf though, I doubt it's even possible to wake up in a coffin anymore, don't they pump your body full chemicals and stuff to preserve your body now? If you weren't dead beforehand, you'd be dead after that

[Niamh.]

I often wonder what happens if when you die your actually still conscious but just dead

That's a horrible thought :shocked: Doubtful though without a working brain

[fruit_cake]

That's a horrible thought :shocked: Doubtful though without a working brain

I guess it's unlikely but although your dead and you might not be able to think or process a thought, it doesn't necessarily mean that your unaware of yourself existence completely

[Lee.]

Hmm.. well personally, I don't care as ill be dead, but having lost loved ones and friends, some cremated ,some buried, I would prefer a burial. I think a graveside service is a lot nicer and its much better having somewhere to visit. I like going to see my grandma; I "sit on her knee" and just somehow feel closer to her.

[Pyramid*]

I guess it's unlikely but although your dead and you might not be able to think or process a thought, it doesn't necessarily mean that your unaware of yourself existence completely

If you are unable to think or process a thought - how is the person meant to be aware of 'yourself existence completely'? You need to have the capacity to think or process information to be able to be aware of anything.

[fruit_cake]

If you are unable to think or process a thought - how is the person meant to be aware of 'yourself existence completely'? You need to have the capacity to think or process information to be able to be aware of anything.

um..I'm not sure, maybe we don't just turn off completely is all I mean I guess

[MTVN]

If you are unable to think or process a thought - how is the person meant to be aware of 'yourself existence completely'? You need to have the capacity to think or process information to be able to be aware of anything.

Body and soul and all that :whistle:

[fruit_cake]

I mean if anyone has ever been under general anaesthetic, you still know deep down that your there, it's a bit like a really intense dream.

[Pyramid*]

um..I'm not sure, maybe we don't just turn off completely is all I mean I guess

Body and soul and all that :whistle:

Body wouldn't be applicable - a body needs to have a brain to process thoughts and all that. :whistle:

Soul - no one knows if that exists. We'll all find out when the time comes..... and I bet there is no such thing. Fancy a wager!

[MTVN]

Body wouldn't be applicable - a body needs to have a brain to process thoughts and all that. :whistle:

Soul - no one knows if that exists. We'll all find out when the time comes..... and I bet there is no such thing. Fancy a wager!

Well yeah, I mean the soul could separate from the body on death, so all your bodily feelings and senses stop working but some part of you still exists. Just trying to be philosophical :idc:

[Pyramid*]

Well yeah, I mean the soul could separate from the body on death, so all your bodily feelings and senses stop working but some part of you still exists. Just trying to be philosophical :idc:

Not taking offer of a wager though I see. :D

[GypsyGoth]

I'd like to be cremated, and I don't really mind what happens to my ashes.

[Shasown]

Dont care what they do with my body after I die, I will be partying in a slightly warmer place with some dude called Satan or something.

[joeysteele]

No they will not be room

Later in your Life
a Official Order will Ensure you are burnt in a Oven
to save land

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSy3ecdIE1U9JbNFMkPf_vagbifUlaan Lt2HkmBr2BfC4TqQt1T


Feel The Force

:joker:Well, as I said I am not really bothered, I doubt that there will never be burials permitted though, Some faiths are against cremation.

There are plans to use old burial places after a certain time too, you do only get the land you are buried in for 99 years I think it is,if the grave is badly neglected then after such time it could legitimately be used again.

I don't mind but my preference is burial over cremation, I wouldn't even cremate our Dog when he dies, as for there not being room for burials in the far future, (which I agree with you on in part),really none of us knows when we will have our lives end, I have lost people in my family aged from 14 to 90+,at 19 I am well aware I should have a long life ahead of me but it's not to be taken for granted,anything could happen anytime, in the near future or far off future.

So until there is no choice,I will state my preference for burial.

[Kazanne]

I mean if anyone has ever been under general anaesthetic, you still know deep down that your there, it's a bit like a really intense dream.

I've been under Anaesthetic and i was not aware of anything,I'de liken it to being 'dead'

[Pyramid*]

I've been under Anaesthetic and i was not aware of anything,I'de liken it to being 'dead'

I've been under General a few times and I say with absolute certainly: I have no recollection of anything apart from "how are you fee.............." "Count from 10 back.... 10 9............................"

then "Hello, Hello, your back in your room" then feeling like a bust ball and gagging for a cuppa.

Great way to 'go' all the same.

[Chuck]

Can cremated bodies be buried as well? Because I don't really like the idea of my body decomposing but I really like cemeteries.

[Pyramid*]

Can cremated bodies be buried as well? Because I don't really like the idea of my body decomposing but I really like cemeteries.

the ashes (what happens when the body is cremated) can be buried, yes.

[joeysteele]

Can cremated bodies be buried as well? Because I don't really like the idea of my body decomposing but I really like cemeteries.

Yes, all that has to be done is ask for the ashes and say they are wanted for burial, they can be buried in their own plot or even in graves of other loved ones who have been buried.

You can even ask for the ashes and keep them in your house or scatter them anywhere you want them to be too.

[Chuck]

Thanks Pyra and Joey :hugesmile:

[Pyramid*]

Thanks Pyra and Joey :hugesmile:

You can apparently get them made into a diamond.... I saw a documentary about it (obviously not a 'real' diamond), here....

http://www.ashesintoglass.co.uk/?gclid=CKb2ivC02qwCFcYKfAodrV4fTw

Not a bad idea!!

Going for a ring puts a whole different light on having someone wrapped round your finger eh! :D

[Samuel.]

Ach, push my dead & decomposing body into the sea or something; may as well feed the fishes and help the food chain a wee bit.

I'd rather have this happen than any of the options.

Or maybe I've been watching too many episodes of Frozen Planet today. But might as well help a potentially starving family of somethings on my way out.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

http://rspremiere.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/pete-burns1_e_742644eb773fdd467f65edf0ab1be8d2.jpg

:lovedup:

[Suze]

I've been under Anaesthetic and i was not aware of anything,I'de liken it to being 'dead'

Same here, when I had a 10 and a half hour op, and remember nothing until coming round. During op, nothing.

[Ramsay]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics