Final Choices

[glatt]

I will say this, the one nice thing about burial is that there is a place with a marker that people can visit to pay their respects to you.

It's too easy in our fast paced society for us to forget those who have come before us. Graveyards help us remember our place in the scheme of things. We are but one generation of the vast story of mankind. There were many before us, and there will be many after us. It's humbling.

But personally, when I'm dead, I won't care. Do what you want with me.

[dar512]

I think nearly all the stuff we do for the dead is actually for the living - which includes the gravesite.

I played at a funeral yesterday. [UT plays with Poco. I play funerals.] It was a very nice ceremony celebrating the life that had ended. It caused me to be quite reflective. I think people should go to a funeral now and then to remind them of how little time we actually have.

[barefoot serpent]

Originally Posted by dar512

I think people should go to a funeral now and then to remind them of how little time we actually have.

That's how Harold met Maude.

[Elspode]

Originally Posted by barefoot serpent

That's how Harold met Maude.

One of my all time favorite films.

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by Kitsune

Very interesting! If you do prefer cremation, is there any reason why you'd rather have it than burial? Expense? The idea of "returning to the land"?

I dislike the idea of rotting away in a box 6 feet under. even though i understand that i wont feel it, it's still nasty. better to have done, and move on, give something back if you can. if the freeze drying thing is accessible when i kick it, i think i like that even more than cremation. seems like the nutrients would be more helpful unburned. less stinky, too i expect.

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by Kitsune

If you do prefer cremation, is there any reason why you'd rather have it than burial? Expense? The idea of "returning to the land"?

I've made it clear to mine that I do not want to be buried. I've suggested lifegem but will leave it to them. While lifegem can make diamonds from cremated remains, they don't use all the ashes leaving some for distribution in a meaningful place.

I just think its the height of human selfishness to tie up a peice of earth for all eternity just to house a lousy skeleton. I understand burial and respect the idea of having a place to pay one's respects but there should be a moratorium on how long you can tie up that patch of earth. If no one alive knows who you were, then maybe its time to surrender the claim.

If I had to decide now, I'd go for three diamonds with the rest being scattered in the small town in France where I made my debut.

[Sundae]

I'm with Glatt - I carry a Donor card so they'll hopefully take whatever is useful. Then it's up to whoever is around to dispose of me.

[zippyt]

Burn my dead ass up !!! I don't want any body to have to try and come up with the thousands of dollars it takes to plant a body ,
as I said cremate me , put my ashes in a straw hat , go to a certin place on a certin river( those who need to know , know where it is ) , light the hat , float it down stream and pop open a beer for the memorys .
Say a few words if you want to .
That is all .

ashes to ashes ,
dust to dust ,
from wents we came,
we shall return .

[Skunks]

There's sort of a running joke in the ceramics studio about how it'd be cool to make an urn for yourself, be cremated, and have somebody turn you into an <a href="http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/ecolodge/25/glazes.htm">ash glaze</a> (<a href="http://www.aquariusartgallery.com/Dec2004/IMG_6967.JPG">img</a>) to put on the outside of the urn.

A bit more hands-after-death-on than the whole diamond thing, I'd say.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by Skunks

There's sort of a running joke in the ceramics studio about how it'd be cool to make an urn for yourself, be cremated, and have somebody turn you into an <a href="http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/ecolodge/25/glazes.htm">ash glaze</a> (<a href="http://www.aquariusartgallery.com/Dec2004/IMG_6967.JPG">img</a>) to put on the outside of the urn.

Damn. I'm going to have to suggest that to a friend of mine who is a potter that happens to really like that technique.

[monster]

Originally Posted by Skunks

There's sort of a running joke in the ceramics studio about how it'd be cool to make an urn for yourself, be cremated, and have somebody turn you into an <a href="http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/ecolodge/25/glazes.htm">ash glaze</a> (<a href="http://www.aquariusartgallery.com/Dec2004/IMG_6967.JPG">img</a>) to put on the outside of the urn.

A bit more hands-after-death-on than the whole diamond thing, I'd say.

You missed the bit about the bisque fire in the cremation furnace.....

[keryx]

I choose cremation. I hate the idea of being stuffed in a box six feet under. I prefer to leave little as possible behind, and I like the idea of cleansing by fire.

[simlingcynic]

Promession sounds good, but if I can't afford that I either want them to leave me where I lay or shoot me out of a cannon into the sea.

[wolf]

Hiya, simling.

The darndest thoughts get people to post, don't they?

[Aliantha]

...dead...