Author Topic: What About Your Corpse? (Read 1641 times)

tedrbr · « **Reply #30 on:** May 05, 2007, 12:11:10 AM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
My wife says she'll have me incinerated and scatter my ashes in the aisles of Home Depot, since I spend a majority of my time (and money) there....

I told her that's fine.

Is she going to wait until AFTER your dead?

Hazzer · « **Reply #31 on:** May 05, 2007, 02:38:44 AM »

My wife worships the ground I'm going to be under.

SirLoin · « **Reply #32 on:** May 05, 2007, 05:03:49 AM »

i want a Viking's funeral...put my corpse on a wooden barge,lite it on fire and push me out on a public lake.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #33 on:** May 05, 2007, 08:47:58 AM »

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Originally posted by tedrbr
Is she going to wait until AFTER your dead?

(I hope so...

LePaul · « **Reply #34 on:** May 05, 2007, 12:08:20 PM »

Eh, just lay me in a photon torpedo casing and blast away

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #35 on:** May 05, 2007, 12:30:48 PM »

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Originally posted by SirLoin
i want a Viking's funeral...put my corpse on a wooden barge,lite it on fire and push me out on a public lake.

Everyone always forgets about the hot young slave girl that gets burned alive with the dead viking.

Seagoon · « **Reply #36 on:** May 05, 2007, 10:21:23 PM »

Just a brief comment; what is interesting to me about this thread is how popular cremation has become. At one time, the practice was almost unheard of in the West, in fact for centuries it was considered the ultimate insult to dig someone up and burn their remains. Only in the nations of the Far East was cremation generally popular. This was largely because most Westerners were Christians who believed that at the return of Christ their bodies would be resurrected and "raised incorruptible." Hence the words of Paul (you may recognize these from Handel's Messiah as well):

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"So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.
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Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed -- in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory." "O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?" The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Cor. 15:42-43; 51-57)

It's tempting to speculate that this is due in part to the fact that belief in the resurrection has waned, and the beliefs either that material life is all there is or the eastern conception of the body as merely an outer shell or the "prison house of the soul" as Plato put it, haven taken hold.

That and the absurd and ever increasing cost of burial...

Anyway Halo, I'd like to be buried in a small church graveyard. They aren't as common as they used to be (I could speculate on why that is as well, but I don't have the time at present) but there are still a few around here and there. I'm content with wherever they choose to put me to rest, after all, it's only a temporary residence.

- SEAGOON

Guppy35 · « **Reply #37 on:** May 05, 2007, 10:33:48 PM »

We had our two kids cremated. The ashes are in urns that we still have. We'd thought about scattering them up on the Vermillion River in northern Minnesota at their grandparents cabin as they loved it there, but we haven't moved to do anything yet.

My 15 year old daughter lived long enough after the accident to make it to the hospital so she was able to donate her organs. Someone got her heart, her lungs, kidneys and any number of other parts. We've been told that she helped upwards of 40 people.

I guess that's good, but it doesn't really help us much.

My choice would to be cremated as well. At that point it won't matter. It's just a shell which at that point is empty. Might as well use me for fertilizer.

oldtard · « **Reply #38 on:** May 06, 2007, 12:13:08 AM »

Well if they cermate me they going to be in for a surprise i have drank so much durning my life i will burn for 3 days:lol

moot · « **Reply #39 on:** May 06, 2007, 12:59:39 AM »

What's the use of a corpse.. If anything, I'd like to ride a one-way rocket to something interesting in outer space during the last few months or years of my life.

Sixpence · « **Reply #40 on:** May 06, 2007, 01:16:38 AM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
My wife says she'll have me incinerated and scatter my ashes in the aisles of Home Depot, since I spend a majority of my time (and money) there....

I told her that's fine.

Lol, she's a woman, she gonna dump you in a Lowes:D

btw, i'm gonna live forever:p

Wolf14 · « **Reply #41 on:** May 06, 2007, 02:14:51 AM »

I dont like funerals. I tend to remember that point in time more often then the other times I had with given person. So I dont go to them much.

With that thought in mind, when I die, I want all my true friends to party it up and to not attend my funeral. I want them to remember me as I was not lying in a box at some funeral home.

I want all the people who thought they were my true friends to remember me lying in the box at the funeral home. After its all said and done, my body can then be donated to one of those body farms for use in forensic science.

Course any usable organ will have been taken out and donated shortly after death in the hospital.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #42 on:** May 06, 2007, 08:01:08 AM »

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Originally posted by Sixpence
Lol, she's a woman, she gonna dump you in a Lowes:D

btw, i'm gonna live forever:p

HAHAHA! You know my wife too well!

Ripsnort · « **Reply #43 on:** May 06, 2007, 08:03:32 AM »

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Originally posted by Guppy35
We had our two kids cremated. The ashes are in urns that we still have. We'd thought about scattering them up on the Vermillion River in northern Minnesota at their grandparents cabin as they loved it there, but we haven't moved to do anything yet.

My 15 year old daughter lived long enough after the accident to make it to the hospital so she was able to donate her organs. Someone got her heart, her lungs, kidneys and any number of other parts. We've been told that she helped upwards of 40 people.

I guess that's good, but it doesn't really help us much.

My choice would to be cremated as well. At that point it won't matter. It's just a shell which at that point is empty. Might as well use me for fertilizer.

That's a tough one, Guppy. Its tough to "move" because of the pain it brings back, yet it might also bring you "full closure" if you know what I mean. Good luck on your decision.

We often talk about heroics in armies, in survival, etc. but we never talk about the emotional "heroics" that a parent must go through when losing a child or children.

AKIron · « **Reply #44 on:** May 06, 2007, 12:03:48 PM »

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Originally posted by Seagoon
Just a brief comment; what is interesting to me about this thread is how popular cremation has become. At one time, the practice was almost unheard of in the West, in fact for centuries it was considered the ultimate insult to dig someone up and burn their remains. Only in the nations of the Far East was cremation generally popular. This was largely because most Westerners were Christians who believed that at the return of Christ their bodies would be resurrected - SEAGOON

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.