I've decided I'm going to be cremated. Part of me is being conscious of the earth, so I won't be taking space in the ground. Another part is the whole body thing...it's not that I'm scared of death or dead people. But it seems like when they're dead, they were nothing but a puppet whether to themselves or to God, nothing but an easily broken shell. And another part of my finds it romantic, in a very strange and morbid way.
At the moment there's not a specific place I want my ashes. So if anything were to happen (knock on wood) my mother and father would probably keep the ashes. If I were to have a partner, he would keep them I suppose. Until I find that place, though, I won't have my ashes spread.
I've never really given thought to this. I guess it's more about fear of dying than anything. confuseddood;
What's to be afraid of? Whether you're religious or not, isn't there something calming about it to you?
Not really. Death signifies the end, and I'd feel empty if I were unable to achieve the things that I want to.
I see it as a new beginning. But it's all about what you think. If you feel that way, go and live how you think you should.
I will be dead so it doesn't really matter to me... I probably wouldn't mind being in a cemetary though because I enjoy contributing to such an abnormal place
I think I might want my body to be donated to science bassir;
I don't really care so much what happens to my body, but I very much want to have a traditional marker in a cemetery, whether my body is there or not. I guess I would prefer to be buried there as well.
I really enjoy cemeteries, and I have a lot of very important memories as a kid of visiting my grandparent and great-grandparents' graves. I also really really enjoy visiting the graves of semi important people that I look up to. I guess I feel like cemeteries have positively benefited me, especially the graves of particular people to whom I owe a lot and I feel like hopefully someday I will leave behind a lot of people who owe me a lot and I don't want to deny them that experience. I always found it very inspiring and grounding.
Properly--intact. A simple casket and a good hole serves me just right, with a sign to mark the plot, some flowers to guard the spot, and a few words to welcome a passing heart. I intend to have a lengthy and rewarding life, after I am done, I shall leave the world in good hands, hands I held and hands I taught, hands I loved and fathered. My ultimate dream is to one day be seated at the head of a grand table, opposite my wife, flanked by my brother, parents, children, grandchildren and all that I care for. Full to supply a feast. The occasion? Life. And I will be sitting there seeing this collective existence of individuality knowing that they are of me and from me, oh, how wonderful that moment will be! For me, that is the greatest feeling and gift in life, change in the form of conscious, that, will be my greatest difference and positive contribution to humanity. Heck, you know what, if I have achieved that then, fuck the burial or the death, I'll die willingly and smug, truly at peace in my rest.
I haven't really thought about it. If I were to be put in the ground, I wouldn't mind a gravestone but I don't really want a casket and I feel like they would make me.
Quote from: Ashitaka on April 29, 2011, 01:34:38 AM
I think I might want my body to be donated to science bassir;
If I had to choose I would go with this.
Beyond that I don't really care as I will be dead. I wouldn't want it to cost my family any amount of money though or be some huge thing.
I would like to be chopped up into squares no bigger than 2 x 2 inches each. Then I want them to be put into a pen full of wild wolves so they can devour whats left of me. I want my brain to be packaged and mailed to David Blane though.
9i want to be in an above ground kiss coffin. i told all my friends this so i am pretty sure it will happen
Cremated and mixed with the ashes of my significant other at the time. n_n
my body will be disintegrated by nukes in 2012 (!!)