My primary choice is to donate my body to the medical profession people for students to use for learning purposes, cremation would be my secondary choice.
Though I've been thinking about that option where they place your body in a large pot, and plant a tree in it. Would my bones be incorporated in the tree, as it grows? That would be hilarious. I think that's where the folklore of "skeleton trees" comes from.
When I cook it's usually cremation (the neighbors can set their clocks by my smoke detectors). I leave the burial part to Waste Management (that's what I pay them for).
Im not gonna be embalmed or cremated, It takes about 30 gallons of fuel to cremate a single dead body and emits about 600 lb of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, typically it takes about 2 gallons of embalming fluid to preserve a dead body, toxic formaldehyde from the embalming fluid can seep into the ground from a dead body. I plan on a green burial. I got all this information from my daughter she's a funeral director.
I'm going to be cremated and ashes spread over the Potomac River. The thing is that I have no idea how I'm going to do that after my mom and dad die. I have no other relatives, friends or a significant other.
This post was edited by Zack at October 2, 2021 4:32 AM MDT