When you die....(updated with some stats)

[Ferocious]

vote!

I still can't decide. :frown:

It wasn't long ago that cremation was considered an oddity. In 1963, only 4
percent of American mourners were opting for it over burial. Today, 26
percent of all people who die are cremated. California has the nation's
ninth-highest cremation rate at 47 percent. Hawaii has the highest with 60
percent, followed by Nevada with 59 percent and Washington with 57 percent.
The lowest cremation rate in the country belongs to Alabama with 5 percent.

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[notfred]

Indifferent, as I'll be dead a nd incapable of giving a sh!t.

 

[djheater]

I keep telling my wife I want her to build a platform with her own hands and ritualistically tie my corpse to it, then let me be picked apart by crows and other scavenger birds.

She doesn't seem to want to go for it.

 

[Patt]

burned down ... after donating whatever I can to science.

 

[MaverickBP]

Originally posted by: notfred
Indifferent, as I'll be dead a nd incapable of giving a sh!t.

QFT

 

[KarenMarie]

i really dont care what happens to me. I wont know anything about it.

I do kinda think, however, that the whole burial plot and headstone is pretty much a waste of space. I know that ppl need a place to go and put flowers and say all the things that they should have when the person was alive.. but to me... well, the person is dead, the physical remains dont keep the memories alive.


I voted cremation, btw.

 

[Mr N8]

I want to be cremated. I do see any sense in having the expense of a burial, etc...

 

[Ferocious]

Maybe I wont decide.

But I figure I'd save the living at least one headache.

 

[Kadarin]

If anything, I'd vote to be cremated because I have no desire to feed the world's maggot population.

 

[mcvickj]

The cheapest route possible.

 

[nakedfrog]

I would like very much to be mummified.

 

[Yossarian]

eaten by forest animals

 

[ggnl]

I think I want to be buried, just so I can put something silly on my tombstone.

 

[Trevelyan]

Whichever is cheapest... honestly I'd rather see $20,000 go to something meaningful rather than something that gets put in the ground and rots away.

 

[hzl eyed grl]

I think I'd like to be buried after donating my organs.

 

[Orsorum]

I'll be donating my organs, then have myself cremated and buried on my family's farm in Tillamook, Oregon.

 

[MAME]

whatever is cheapest

 

[Doboji]

Plain pine box. In accordance with jewish tradition and law.

 

[dug777]

cremated then scattered somewhere beautiful

Probably the headland in our favourite national park.

 

[jonnyGURU]

I put buried.

I figured at some point someone would want to dig me up and shake my hand. Appreciate the man.

 

[Toasthead]

creamation is cheapest

 

[alien42]

cremated and shot into space

 

[Rock Hydra]

I don't care...I'll be dead. What happens to me won't matter.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: jonnyGURU
I put buried.

I figured at some point someone would want to dig me up and shake my hand. Appreciate the man.

James Ensor? Is that you?

 

[Argo]

Dumped in the ocean to save my family on the funeral expenses.