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Americans Are Embracing New Ways to Leave Their Remains

posted by martyb on Saturday October 28 2017, @01:13PM   
from the you-can't-take-it-with-you dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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

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• Is piano string noose with hands glued to head ok? Is piano string noose with hands glued to head ok? (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 28 2017, @02:32PM (4 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 28 2017, @02:32PM (#588683)

  <evilada>: Best suicide plan ever
  <mcm310>: what is it?
  <evilada>: you go up to the top of a roof
  <evilada>: string piano wire tight across the front edge at neck level
  <evilada>: tie a cord to your foot and the other end to the building so that you'll be above sidewalk level when its fully stretched
  <evilada>: then you put super glue on your hands
  <evilada>: and put your arms around the front of the wire and then back to touch your head
  <evilada>: then you lean forward, so the piano wire cuts your neck but not your elbows
  <evilada>: when the cord goes taut, youll be hanging upside down with no head....except your head will be in your outstretched arms thanks to gravity and the glue, staring at someone upside down and spewing blood everywhere.
  <evilada>: And some poor bastard will be traumatized for LIFE.
  <mcm310>: i dont think i can be your friend anymore

  http://www.bash.org/?488793 [bash.org]

  Suicide not worth it until this is legal.

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• Re:Is piano string noose with hands glued to head Re:Is piano string noose with hands glued to head (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 28 2017, @03:11PM (1 child)

  by Runaway1956 (2926) on Saturday October 28 2017, @03:11PM (#588692) Journal

  That's just sick. But I can't stop laughing.

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  • Re:Is piano string noose with hands glued to head (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday October 28 2017, @03:33PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday October 28 2017, @03:33PM (#588695) Homepage

    I prefer the hanging as depicted in Hannibal, where Hannibal Lecter slashes open the dude's viscera before pushing him out the window, so that when the lines went taut, the dude's guts shot out of his belly.

    And what wasn't shown in the movie, that occurred in the novel, is a known phenomenon of similar deaths: the death erection. [wikipedia.org]

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• Re:Is piano string noose with hands glued to head (Score: 1) by Sulla on Saturday October 28 2017, @04:27PM

  by Sulla (5173) on Saturday October 28 2017, @04:27PM (#588710) Journal

  Maddox oblig
  http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=manly_suicide [thebestpageintheuniverse.net]

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• Protip (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 28 2017, @10:56PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 28 2017, @10:56PM (#588823)

  ampersand-l-t[1] requires a semicolon after it to make an HTML left angle bracket (less-than symbol).

  [1] If you get it any where near correct, (plus a space after it), the S/N comments engine will try to help--even if you are trying to make a point and don't want "help".

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