Your Funeral

[Burkingam]

Is it more environmentally friendly to be cremated, or have a responsibly sourced, biodegradable coffin?

Cremation. This way, you don't use any land after you die.

[kitamesume]

i wonder if headshrinking is legal in my area... you guys get the idea right~?

[AnimeJanai]

It makes you wonder why sinkholes don't appear in funeral parks if a biodegradable coffin were used.  When it collapses, the ground above would sink.  Also, runoff water from a funeral park goes into the groundwater system.  In southern cities, this means peoples' wells will be sucking up funeral water.   If you live downslope from where Michael Jackson is buried, perhaps you can suck in some of his former molecules.  *ahem*

[hanayome]

Cremation. This way, you don't use any land after you die.

If you simply bury someone, s/he will decay soon enough. Then the same area can be re-used. It can be repeated forever. Why bother with cremation?

And yeah, that's my ideal funeral. A simple burial...

[Muk666]

Cremation. If there is no corpse, there can't be a zombie either.

Best choice, why risk having you return from the dead to kill people ?

[Burkingam]

Cremation. If there is no corpse, there can't be a zombie either.

Best choice, why risk having you return from the dead to kill people ?

I would love to come back after I die!

[TwEeD]

My own ideal funeral? A fake one :p

[JoonasTo]

Is it more environmentally friendly to be cremated, or have a responsibly sourced, biodegradable coffin?

Cremation takes a lot of energy to do properly but after it's done it takes no space. Burying doesn't take any energy besides some bread for the gravedigger but it one needs to be buried somewhere so it takes space. If you're in the western hemisphere where space is not an issue burial is probably better but somewhere like Singapore that'd be doubtful.

Best choice is obviously being fed to the wolves. Aside from your skull(which would make a nice memento for your family) most of you will be eaten and bones will be broken into small pieces. An egologically sound choice but perhaps a little unethical seeing as you'd be teaching the wolves to eat humans which might lead to their demise later.

[Soryon]

It makes you wonder why sinkholes don't appear in funeral parks if a biodegradable coffin were used.  When it collapses, the ground above would sink.  Also, runoff water from a funeral park goes into the groundwater system.  In southern cities, this means peoples' wells will be sucking up funeral water.   If you live downslope from where Michael Jackson is buried, perhaps you can suck in some of his former molecules.  *ahem*

I recall watching a documentary a few years ago that talked about eco-friendly burials. This one place they went to just wrapped you in some sort of quickly biodegrading fabric and buried you with with only a stone or small wooden cross as a marker. Out of curiosity, I did a quick Google search about it and there are a handful of other similar options, if you so care to check it out.

Point was that you dont need an actual coffin. I would say you dont even need the fabric but if they choose to do it as a ceremony, family likely doesn't want to see your rotting corpse since these options also tend to omit any embalming process, at least chemically.

Reminds me, another fun alternative would be a funeral pyre. Who doesn't love a good bonfire with food and drinks? Not the most environmentally friendly option with the whole burning aspect, but still.

[Ultra_Magnus]

I would imagine "burial" at sea is the most environmentally friendly option if you are into that... You don't take up any land and it doesn't consume fossil fuel.

[yt1DER]

I would like to be cremated and have the ashes put into a clay mixture. Then it would be sculpted into a garden gnome and placed in a coffin and the funeral will proceed normally.

...up until the point where they open the coffin and there's a gnome inside.

The adults will have a fun time explaining to their kids that grandpa turned into a gnome and died.

[kitamesume]

I would like to be cremated and have the ashes put into a clay mixture. Then it would be sculpted into a garden gnome and placed in a coffin and the funeral will proceed normally.

...up until the point where they open the coffin and there's a gnome inside.

The adults will have a fun time explaining to their kids that grandpa turned into a gnome and died.

why gnome? why not an alien? and make your kids tell your grandkids that you were an alien >,>

[yt1DER]

why gnome? why not an alien? and make your kids tell your grandkids that you were an alien >,>

Because aliens don't have beards, and by that time I plan on having a magnificent, luscious beard.

[bork]

Interesting that no one has brought up the body liquefaction yet.  They stick your body in a tank and three hours later you are flushed down into the city sewer.

Method does not use any land to bury you in and does not require fuel to turn you into ash.  Just does not feel right though at the end of the funeral service they pull the flush lever.



btw. if you think I am pulling your leg, google "funeral liquefaction"

[kitamesume]

^ have you ever think that you'll be sleeping with the feces with that kind of funeral?

[AnimeJanai]

Sometimes, you don't know if people get cremated or buried though due to chance.

There was that serial killer guy in Canada who killed a lot of prostitutes over a period of time but pretty much all of the bodies and bones were never recovered except for one that was buried beneath a concrete patio.  I guess when the police get desperate, they will do a HUGE amount of digging and demolition if they have the budget.  But it is always a huge problem how to get rid of all the meat, blood, and bones from a human carcass especially if you don't have knowledge how to take apart a big meaty human corpse efficiently or have meat cutting tools and grinders and freezers and a good meat treatment area.

That serial killer also ran a small but popular sausage meat facility like any good entrepreneur.  It was well equipped with tools to cut beef and pork carcasses.  He acquired the meat and bones from whatever reputable meat sources.  His meat products were consumed by people.  The bone marrow is also used in meat products.  The bones can be ground into bone meal and used to improve calcium content (done in some places) or sold for fertilizer. 

I have not purchased any MEAT products from him although I admit I like sausage meat a lot.  I wonder where he got his meat?   It must have been a good source as his customer base was significant.  I trust they enjoyed eating their sausage meat especially when it might have seemed extra tasty every now and then.  Could that be from extra seasoning?  Who knows what goes into the sausage meat made by a serial killer?  But it is good that he provided a tasty meat product to his customers who appreciated eating all that tasty meat.   His meat products were sold at local Canadian grocery stores too.   I lament the removal of a good supplier of sausage meat from the economy. 

[bork]

Sorry - did not intend this to result in this going toward the soylent green direction.

Both me and my wife agreed that each will take the cheapest method for each others funeral and if she wants to do the flush method, so be it.  Any money saved from the funeral expenses will be used in throwing a going away party with a toast to the missing guest of honor.  It might not end up as being the most upbeat party thrown but we both do not want a bunch of people all standing around crying about how cruel and unfair it is to die.  Dieing is not unfair, its a fact that will happen; there is a 100% death rate for humans.  It may seem flippant in attitude for what I have written but I still grieve when someone close to me dies, I just understand I still need to live the life I have been given and move forward with it. A lot of people I have known are now gone and it seems every year or so I have one less friend around, you start to understand that your time is also coming to an end.

[Jurichan]

i wonder if headshrinking is legal in my area... you guys get the idea right~?

That would actually be pretty awesome.

[AnimeJanai]

When you die, would you prefer your children to hold a party of sorts to celebrate the happy times they had together rather than having a sad funeral?

[kitamesume]

^i'll make them have a party with my corpse with a party hat and holding a drink, after that, off to the incinerator!