Poll: Your eternal resting place

justincredible Honorable Admin
37,969 posts 246 reps Joined Nov 2009
Mon, Apr 25, 2022 11:02 AM

What are you plans for what happens to your body after you die? Going with a traditional burial? Cremation? Do you have your cemetery plot already picked out? 

Anyone opting for a Viking funeral?


iclfan2 Reppin' the 330/216/843
9,465 posts 98 reps Joined Nov 2009
Mon, Apr 25, 2022 11:06 AM

Cremated, don’t care where they stick me. 

kizer permanente Senior Member
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Mon, Apr 25, 2022 11:06 AM
posted by justincredible

What are you plans for what happens to your body after you die? Going with a traditional burial? Cremation? Do you have your cemetery plot already picked out? 

Anyone opting for a Viking funeral?

I'm going to say cremated since the idea of being buried and cemeteries are dated and not sustainable.  

justincredible Honorable Admin
37,969 posts 246 reps Joined Nov 2009
Mon, Apr 25, 2022 11:17 AM

I'm also getting cremated. Spread my ashes between my grandparents property (though, hopefully will be mine when I pass) and the Boundary Waters.

justincredible Honorable Admin
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Mon, Apr 25, 2022 11:19 AM

I really dislike viewing hours and funerals with open caskets. The sight of the dead body and the smells are ... not pleasant. 

QuakerOats Senior Member
11,701 posts 66 reps Joined Nov 2009
Mon, Apr 25, 2022 11:19 AM

May donate body for science; the liver will be an interesting study.  

kizer permanente Senior Member
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Mon, Apr 25, 2022 11:21 AM
posted by QuakerOats

May donate body for science; the liver will be an interesting study.  

I'd say that brain would be more interesting tbh. 

33,369 posts 132 reps Joined Nov 2009
Mon, Apr 25, 2022 11:24 AM

Cremated just to preserve space on this earth. I dont believe in any kind of afterlife, so frankly couldnt care less what ultimately happens to me or where I am buried or spread. But, for the sake of humanity, I'll get cremated. 

queencitybuckeye Senior Member
8,068 posts 120 reps Joined Nov 2009
Mon, Apr 25, 2022 11:46 AM

Cremated. No one I cared about is forgotten because there's not a physical place to go "see" them. The handful of people who care about me will remember (hopefully just the good parts).

BRF Senior Member
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Mon, Apr 25, 2022 11:51 AM
posted by kizer permanente

I'm going to say cremated since the idea of being buried and cemeteries are dated and not susttainable.  

This is how I feel, also.


BRF Senior Member
11,621 posts 107 reps Joined Nov 2009
Mon, Apr 25, 2022 11:52 AM
posted by justincredible

I really dislike viewing hours and funerals with open caskets. The sight of the dead body and the smells are ... not pleasant. 

Yes.


Fred Garvin Senior Member
302 posts 6 reps Joined Nov 2009
Mon, Apr 25, 2022 11:52 AM

Cremated.

I want my ashes spread at a specific beach. I don't want to be in the ground where family feels obligated to go visit, and I don't want to be sitting on a mantle of one of my children. Spread my ashes at my happy place and then have a drink.

brutus161 The Navy Guy
1,688 posts 23 reps Joined Nov 2009
Mon, Apr 25, 2022 12:33 PM

What if our thoughts on the afterlife are just slightly off? What if your getting into heaven or hell didn't depend on your beliefs or how good you are? What if hell is just people that have been cremated and the fires of hell are the soul feeling the fires of the furnace?

kizer permanente Senior Member
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Mon, Apr 25, 2022 12:36 PM
posted by brutus161

What if our thoughts on the afterlife are just slightly off? What if your getting into heaven or hell didn't depend on your beliefs or how good you are? What if hell is just people that have been cremated and the fires of hell are the soul feeling the fires of the furnace?

Well I'd suggest finding alternatives in theology since land is finite and you cant bury people forever?

justincredible Honorable Admin
37,969 posts 246 reps Joined Nov 2009
Mon, Apr 25, 2022 12:39 PM
posted by brutus161

What if our thoughts on the afterlife are just slightly off? What if your getting into heaven or hell didn't depend on your beliefs or how good you are? What if hell is just people that have been cremated and the fires of hell are the soul feeling the fires of the furnace?

Dr Winston O'Boogie Senior Member
3,345 posts 35 reps Joined Oct 2010
Mon, Apr 25, 2022 12:44 PM

Cremated. I hate old cemeteries with worn out headstones. They’re going to have to be dug up eventually anyhow.  My skeleton can’t take that kind of abuse (history of neck and back problems).


If Johnny Depp’s career manages to survive - a big “if” - I may have him do for me what he did for Hunter Thompson.  He fired that SOB’s ashes out of a powerful cannon. That’s be cool.  

queencitybuckeye Senior Member
8,068 posts 120 reps Joined Nov 2009
Mon, Apr 25, 2022 2:23 PM
posted by brutus161

What if our thoughts on the afterlife are just slightly off? What if your getting into heaven or hell didn't depend on your beliefs or how good you are? What if hell is just people that have been cremated and the fires of hell are the soul feeling the fires of the furnace?

Interesting. OTOH, what if cremation frees the soul from the body and the buried are stuck for eternity in a box?

Heretic Son of the Sun
20,517 posts 201 reps Joined Nov 2009
Mon, Apr 25, 2022 2:51 PM
posted by queencitybuckeye

Interesting. OTOH, what if cremation frees the soul from the body and the buried are stuck for eternity in a box?

Lol, buried people would be stuck there just hoping that building Frankenstein's Monsters gets back into vogue, so a grave robber will dig them up and give their soul a chance to ascend.

j_crazy 7 gram rocks. how i roll.
8,623 posts 30 reps Joined Nov 2009
Mon, Apr 25, 2022 3:26 PM

i want to be cremated with my ashes spread at Marquesas key where my friends and my family have made some of my greatest memories.

Ironman92 Administrator
56,729 posts 164 reps Joined Nov 2009
Mon, Apr 25, 2022 4:15 PM
posted by Laley23

Cremated just to preserve space on this earth. I dont believe in any kind of afterlife, so frankly couldnt care less what ultimately happens to me or where I am buried or spread. But, for the sake of humanity, I'll get cremated. 

Buried but I’ll wear a mask


BR1986FB Senior Member
27,923 posts 123 reps Joined Feb 2010
Mon, Apr 25, 2022 7:27 PM

Cremated but I told my lady "make sure I'm friggin dead. If you burn me alive, you'll pay."

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