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Burial or cremation?

Cremation for me

Posted - October 1, 2021

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  • 13395
    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.
      October 1, 2021 8:20 AM MDT
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  • 6023
    Cremation.

    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.


      October 1, 2021 8:21 AM MDT
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  • 34432
    Whatever the kids choose to do.  I will not be using that body anymore. 
      October 1, 2021 8:21 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    Cremation and then https://urnabios.com/
      October 1, 2021 9:42 AM MDT
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  • 44649
    slice and dice by medical students, then i don't care after that.
      October 1, 2021 10:25 AM MDT
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  • 10662
    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).
      October 1, 2021 12:22 PM MDT
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  • 1952
    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. 
      October 1, 2021 2:27 PM MDT
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  • 53524

     

      What’s the plan for your carcass? May I please have it if you don’t mind?


    [Im asking for a friend.]
    ~

      October 1, 2021 2:32 PM MDT
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  • 1952
    LOL sure have at it, just don't do anything weird to it.  This post was edited by Echooos at October 1, 2021 2:43 PM MDT
      October 1, 2021 2:35 PM MDT
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  • 53524

      I promise. 

     


    Er, um, my friend promises. 

    ~

      October 1, 2021 2:43 PM MDT
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  • 1952
    Hehehehe :):):)
      October 1, 2021 3:18 PM MDT
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  • 44649
    Sicko.
      October 1, 2021 5:20 PM MDT
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  • 53524

     

      I know, right?  I’ll pass that along to my friend.




    ~

      October 1, 2021 10:11 PM MDT
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  • 53524

     

      Yes!

    ~

      October 1, 2021 2:32 PM MDT
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  • 7795
    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
      October 1, 2021 2:34 PM MDT
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  • 44649
    I'm sure we can arrange something.
      October 1, 2021 5:21 PM MDT
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  • 17614
    Again, none of your business.
      October 1, 2021 3:11 PM MDT
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  • Don't bother to answer with "Again, none of your business."
     
      October 1, 2021 5:12 PM MDT
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  • 1952
    Humor the necrophiliac.   :).   Hahaha
      October 1, 2021 6:33 PM MDT
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  • 16827
    Cremation. In the extremely unlikely event that I'm catatonic rather than actually dead, burned alive is slightly less horrific than buried alive.
      October 1, 2021 7:11 PM MDT
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  • 10052
    Exactly!
      October 1, 2021 10:12 PM MDT
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  • 126
    Excarnation. Outside Buckingham Palace.
      October 2, 2021 12:33 AM MDT
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  • 2706
    It doesn't matter. I won't be around to know the difference anyhow. :)
      October 2, 2021 1:07 AM MDT
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