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Benedict Arnold

Cremation or burial?

Which is the most practical? Which do you prefer? Or would you prefer a Viking send-off, set adrift in a blazing longboat?

Posted - February 16, 2017
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  • 7776
    Since cremation is cheaper, I'll choose that and my ashes spread over the Potomac River.
      February 16, 2017 8:08 PM MST
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  • I've got my spot picked out, too, but it's nowhere you've ever heard of. 
      February 16, 2017 8:16 PM MST
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  • 7776
    I'm going to be on the Woodrow Wilson Bridge most likely. I mean whoever dumps my ashes.
      February 16, 2017 8:20 PM MST
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  • 2327
    Cremation is quicker, cheaper and saves on space. I want to be cremated. Light a cigarette, place it in my stiff hand, close the casket and play "Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash, please. 
      February 16, 2017 8:10 PM MST
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  • Righty, that's beautiful. And I love that song. :)
      February 16, 2017 8:14 PM MST
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  • I'd love a viking burial. Burn baby, burn.
      February 16, 2017 8:12 PM MST
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  • My word! What a way to go.
    Hmm, I suppose i should have left the option of being entombed in a pyramid.
      February 16, 2017 8:15 PM MST
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  • I'd still go for the burning longboat.
      February 16, 2017 8:28 PM MST
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  • I prefer burial. For personal and religious reasons. 
      February 16, 2017 8:20 PM MST
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  • I don't really care one way or the other.  Feed me to wild wolves for all I care. This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at February 18, 2017 3:50 PM MST
      February 16, 2017 8:26 PM MST
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  • I wanna be cremated!!! FIRE! :) 

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mIBTg7q9oNc
      February 16, 2017 8:26 PM MST
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  • I love the smell of burning apples.
      February 16, 2017 8:28 PM MST
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  • Lol :) can you smell me trying to think? :p 
      February 16, 2017 8:32 PM MST
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  • Yep. A long hot smolder, with a hint of cinnamon.
      February 16, 2017 8:34 PM MST
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  • Lol :) you inspired my  next question :p This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at February 18, 2017 9:51 AM MST
      February 16, 2017 8:51 PM MST
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  • Enjoyed listening to that. :)
      February 16, 2017 11:46 PM MST
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  • 5808
    Burn Baby Burn
    useless any more
    I have moved on
    from that house
    feed the ashes
    to the flowers
    that they may
    endure 

      February 16, 2017 8:36 PM MST
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  • “I sometimes think that never blows so red
    The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;
    That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
    Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head.”
         -- Omar Khayyam
      February 16, 2017 8:53 PM MST
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  • 5808
    Nice
      February 16, 2017 9:04 PM MST
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  • 508
    i would rather be cremated and spread somewhere. i don't like the thought of body slowly rotting in a whole in the ground.
      February 16, 2017 8:46 PM MST
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  • Doesn't appeal to me, either. Of course, I'll already have gone so it doesn't really matter.
      February 16, 2017 8:54 PM MST
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  • Growing up in England I heard real horror stories about the crematorium which have stayed with me so definitely no cremation for me.  I always thought I'd like to be entombed in one of those mausoleums with air conditioning and elevator music.
      February 16, 2017 10:27 PM MST
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  • I hope you get uour wish, Yogafan, but not for a very long time. 
      February 16, 2017 11:47 PM MST
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  • 17261
    Burn baby burn... And then a Viking send-off...

      February 17, 2017 3:05 AM MST
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