What About Your Corpse?

[68ROX]

After organ donation to anyone who needs 'em.....

My wife already knows my wishes.  Cremation and then she has agreed to spread the ashes off some nice, sunny, ocean beach somewhere.

68ROX

[Seagoon]

Hi AKIron,

Originally posted by AKIron
While I do believe in the ressurection there is little difference between being buried intact or cremated, given sufficient time. The One who is able to resurrect our bodies can do so whether they are dust reborn in a thousand trees, ashes spread across the seas, or even mere atoms spread across our universe.

Amen and Amen. I did not mean to imply for a second that the omnipotent God who created the universe ex nihilo would have any problems reassembling our corporeal remains at the return of Christ..

However, traditionally what we did with our bodies after death was a reflection of our beliefs regarding the afterlife. To this day, for instance, Hindus practice cremation to show both that our material bodies are considered merely part of the Maya and to encourage the soul (the Atman) to leave and move on to the next incarnation. The adherents of most religions still dispose of bodies in a way that reflects their religious beliefs and for centuries this was why Christians buried their dead. Christ was the firstfruits, we will follow in his train, as Paul put it:"But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ's at His coming." (1 Corinthians 15:20-23)

We believed that as Christ died, was buried, and rose again, we too should follow in that pattern, and thus should be buried there to await the redemption of our bodies. The Confessions of the Christian faith followed this pattern. For instance one of my favorite passages from the Westminster Shorter Catechism states: "The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory; and their bodies, being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves till the resurrection."

So while I have no great problems with cremations, and have probably done more funerals for those who have chosen cremation, I still consider burial a more fitting reflection of what Christians believe.

- SEAGOON

[Seagoon]

Hi Yeager,

Originally posted by Yeager
Minimal footprint: I want to be cremated and have my ashes flushed down the toilet.

As I was reading this, it occurred to me that all of that smoke and gasses released into the atmosphere by cremation (not to mention the energy required to cremate a body) might actually have a more substantial environmental impact than being put into a coffin and then having that coffin sealed in a vault (which is required in most locales these days). A search on "Cremation" and "Impact on the Environment" turned up this on Wiki:

There is a growing body of research that indicates cremation has a significant impact on the environment:

The major emissions from crematories are: nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, mercury, hydrogen fluoride (HF), hydrogen chloride (HCl), NMVOCs, and other heavy metals, in addition to Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP).

According to the United Nations Environment Programme report on POP Emission Inventory Guidebook[26], emissions from crematoria, although comparatively small on an international scale, are still statistically significant. The POP inventory indicates that crematoria contribute 0.2% of the global emission of dioxins and furans.

Persistent Organic Pollutants from cremation include Dioxins and Furans, PAHs, benzo(a)pyrene, benzo(ghi)perylene, Benzo(k)fluoranthene, Fluoranthene, Indendo(123-cd)pyrene, Benzo(b)fluoranthene, Benz(a)anthracene, Dibenz(ah)anthracene, PCBs (Nos. 126, 169, 77, 118, 105, 123, 114, 156, 157,167, 189), Hexachlorobenzene, Toxaphene, Chlordane, Aldrin, DDT, Mirex, Dieldrin, Endrin, Hexabromobiphenyl, Pentachlorophenol, Heptachlor, Chlordecone, Short Chain Chlorinated Paraffins (SCCP), Lindane.

- SEAGOON

[Halo]

Human cremation might have a long way to go before it begins to affect the environment anywhere near the scale of bovine flatulism.  

[Sandman]

I want them to put my body through an industrial size chipper shredder and spray the pink cloud over the ocean.

[Halo]

Kinda like the movie Fargo only warmer?

[Sandman]

Exactly... but that machine was too small.

[Scherf]

Originally posted by RTR
Really?

I want only nubile 20 year old women, lovingly washing my studly corpse and gaping in amazement at my naughty bits with lustfull eyes.

They will then pillow fight, while wearing only a thong and 2 pasties, over who gets to dress me in a classy tux.

Other than that, I don't care what happens.

RTR

RTR is teh winnar.

[AWMac]

I want Keith Richards to snort my Arse!



Mac

[ink]

Originally posted by lasersailor184
I always wanted to go out the viking way.  Be ****ed to death by some young slave girl just before I pass, and then she helps me get pushed out to sea on a burning sail boat.  The catch is that she's on it as well.

 to bad the vikings only wanted to die in battle, with there sword in hand, that was the only way to enter valhalla.

 oh  ya  : burn my body,let the wind carry the ashes where they will.

[JB88]

Originally posted by AWMac
I want Keith Richards to snort my Arse!



Mac

this is about what to do with you after you are dead mac.

sheesh.

[FiLtH]

Burn it and use it as fertilizer in a garden. It least then I'd be useful.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Halo
After you die, what do you want done with your corpse?  People have such varying expectations for their burials.  Some want elaborate monuments, some want to be buried in their home town, some want to be cremated and their ashes scattered over favorite places.

Where are you (i.e., your earthly remains) going to spend eternity?

For example, I'd like my ashes to be scattered in a perfect wave about five feet high in glassy translucent tropical water near some gorgeous island. But that's too much time, trouble, and expense, so I'll settle for a pretty spot somewhere in the glorious green of Virginia, my adopted state.

As my wife wants for her ashes, a modest little plaque with name and dates of birth and death in a columbarium also would be nice.

What about you?  Statue in a house of wax?  Caisson with black horses and boots in the saddle?

Aftwer I die.
Take my body and dispose of it in the nearest dumpster.
I promise I wont complain.

Seriously. I've told my family I want my remains disposed of in the absolutely cheapest manner possible.
Do NOT piss away any more insurance money on my remains then you have to.
Take the cash. And throw a party or by yourselves something instead.

If they feel they absolutely MUST do something for me then I want. And Irish wake. Throw a big party and celibrate my life..or death (depending on your point of view)
Have me creamated, Have part of my ashes places in a fish and fed to a wild bald eagle and give me a Viking funeral with the rest.

If they REALLY want to honor me. they can do it Beau Gest style.
There are a couple of people my family knows about they can use for the dog

[Engine]

I hear that, Drediock. It seems such a sad waste to spend a ton of money on some fancy funeral.

I want my organs to go to people who can use them, and I make sure everyone around me knows that I DO NOT want my body to be drained of fluids, "prepared" in any way, makeup to be applied, nor do I want my body to be manhandled into a tux. Just throw me in a cheap box and bury me as I am. If I'm naked, throw me in some jeans and a t-shirt or something, but don't let any dull funeral home people touch my body.

[WilldCrd]

I want to be launch into deep space forever floating thru the stars or at least until some super advanced alien amazonian like women find me and revive me and make me there leader and and use me as new "genetic" material to help continue their race




ofcourse i will have to reintroduce them to "doing it" the ol fashioned way