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What do you want to happen to your remains after you die?
For the past century, most Americans have accepted a limited set of options without question. And discussions of death and funeral plans have been taboo.
That is changing. As a scholar of funeral and cemetery law, I've discovered that Americans are becoming more willing to have a conversation about their own mortality and what comes next and embrace new funeral and burial practices.
Baby boomers are insisting upon more control over their funeral and disposition so that their choices after death match their values in life. And businesses are following suit, offering new ways to memorialize and dispose of the dead.
While some options such as Tibetan sky burial – leaving human remains to be picked clean by vultures – and "Viking" burial via flaming boat – familiar to "Game of Thrones" fans – remain off limits in the U.S., laws are changing to allow a growing variety of practices.
Hmm, vitrification with a motion sensor-activated coffin such that passersby trigger my corpse to sit up and ask, "Is it time to make the donuts?"
Previously: "Water Cremation" (Alkaline Hydrolysis): Environmentally Friendly Disposal of Dead Bodies
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bradley13 on Saturday October 28 2017, @02:05PM (3 children)
I've never understood people who make a big deal of it, for themselves. Geez, you're dead. Religious or not you are beyond caring. Remember Ozymandias.
As for the survivors, it's all about saying farewell. Have a nice party, share some memories, read a poem, [familyfriendpoems.com] and scatter the ashes somewhere pretty.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday October 28 2017, @03:39PM (1 child)
The summary itself reads a lot like a baby-boomer hate thread.
Though, personally, I find such excess to be an obnoxious sign of vanity. You're fucking dead, what does it matter to you? Cremate yourself, give your family the ashes and the money that would have otherwise gone to your extravagant funeral. Or donate to charity.
When I die, I want to be cremated. And then I want my ashes to be poured in a charcoal grill, never cleaned. Then I want my friends and family to eat burgers and other meats from that grill in memoriam. I got the idea from Married, with Children.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 28 2017, @05:47PM
When I die, I want to be cremated, along all my money. Nothing but ashes for all the assholes left behind.
Fuck'em all, I'm dead already.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 28 2017, @11:05PM
I know it shouldn't matter, but...
I don't want to get buttfucked after I die.
I don't want somebody to fuck my wife, even if I'm not there. The thought of being separated from an intact corpse is strangely terrifying for me. Until she is ground up or dissolved or incinerated, I want to keep an eye on her.
I don't want that stuff happening to my kids.
Other than that, yeah, whatever. Be cheap and environmentally friendly. Turn them to diesel fuel or feed them to pigs.