I want to be scattered at Disneyland (note: I do not wish to be cremated).
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In the wise words of Frank Reynolds

Don't have to even be dead, I just want to be launched into the sun because that would be pretty rad.
Due to gravity and your point of origin being earth (which is moving suprisingly fast), its actually very difficult to actually hit the sun...
Oh it'd cost an absolute shitload of delta v, but that doesn't make me want it less.
Yes. It's guaranteed, given enough time.
Technically I guess it could be considered a ride share kind of thing, since I think my remains will have been recycled as a bunch of other people's remains, by that time...
I wouldn't even know what people did.
But maybe...
Hide pieces of my body in the vents of Mar a lago.
Let them rot and stink up the place.
About 1/3 will be combined with my wife and her dog who have already passed. Another 1/3 will be combined with my fiancé. These will be scattered in a few different places that are special to us.
The final 1/3 is to be combined with concrete and made into ice cube sized pieces to be taken to different reefs around the world by whomever will take them.
I currently carry a tiny portion of my wife and her dog with me everywhere.
Donate the useful bits to others, use me for science, then turn me into compost.
Compost. I don't really care about a marker or whatnot either. Maybe, if I had to; a cherub with a solar powered pump that periodically pees on [billionaires] grave stone or maybe just a simple stone with this meme but, eh. Won't matter to me after the fact because I am not.
Seems like we all want to be as nutrient-conserved as possible! It's too bad there are all the rules about proper disposal - I get why they're there, but yeah, random hole for me. Tree on top sounds great
Cremation, then throw my ashes in the faces of people on a list that will be provided.
There's a burial forest near here, I'll be quite happy there. No markers, no embalment, no coffin, just a shroud and trees.
Launch my corpse at a dead planet with water or ice, see if my bacterial colonies eventually seed new life.
Death rituals are for the living, not the dead. Do whatever you need to do in order to get healthy closure.
Let me rot for three weeks, leave my body leaning on the door of someone i don't like, then ring the bell and run.
no but for real ill be dead i dont care.
don't give a shit
take my organs, practice cutting me up, burn the rest or bury me under a tree that you'll see grow for decades
Organ donation or medical/scientific use. Whatever parts are not useful can be disposed of in whatever way is easiest.
Cremation and mixed up with my furry companions that have passed on before me. After that I wouldn’t mind being spread out in the far reaches of the wilderness. Be up to the wife really.
But for all its worth Do Not put me on a cemetery.
If I'm not cremated feed me to an animal, otherwise mix my ashes in with a bunch of psychotic drugs and let my essence take you on a magical journey.
Cremation and organ donation. Already written in my living will and communicated to my remaing family
Just mail me to the necrophiliacs, I might finally get some
I intend to leave requests for some minor crimes related to my cremated ashes, in my will.
Nothing too serious, just enough to fuck with whoever executes my will. To...uh... remind them I was thinking of them, and maybe to make them a tiny bit relieved to be rid of my bullshit.
I’d love to do a mushroom burial. Any disposal of my remains that are friendly to the planet sound good to me. 😊
https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/mushroom-burial-suit.htm
Remove the bits I've promised to those that aren't quite as fucked as me, yet.
The rest, don't embalm. If post-mortem is required, no plastic left in me, that kind of thing. Wrapped in linen, dumped in a hole deep enough that the foxes won't find it, and we're done.
You know those human cannons they used to have at the circus? I want to be loaded into one of those and shot into a hole in the ground some distance away. If they miss they can try again or just kinda roll me into the grave. I'm not sure this is entirely legal but those are my last wishes.
I don't care I won't be there. The living should decide whatever they want, it's not my business.
Keep in mind that they can be pressured by others into doing something they don't necessarily "want" to do. Making your intentions clear can be useful.
I don't have any intention. Whatever. I will be dead by then, I couldn't care less
That's what my grandma said. The family fought for weeks.
Well, your grandma died thinking her family get on well with each other. You are the one who fought, not your grandma.
I never visit cemeteries and if I can I skip funerals. I don't like to deal with the material stuff related to death, I like to grief alone.
unfortunately everything i would most want done with the bulk of my remains is illegal in the US. no cannibal barbecue memorial. no using bones for arts and crafts. at least my organs can get donated if anyone needs them, but best legal option after that's done is probably cremation, and then use my ashes in making a nice ceramic dish set or sculpture or something.
Put into the ground into a wooden coffin, no crap to try and preserve my remains, a nice tombstone over it
I couldn’t care less, I’d be dead. Let those I left behind do whatever they feel most comfortable with or appropriate to help them get through it.
Don't really care, since I'll be dead. But donating my body to medical school doesn't sound so bad
Make a marionette out of my body and use it to tell my life story.
A friend from high school wants his hands to be glued to the side of his face, then be decapitated so it looks like he pulled off his own head.
Preserve me until we figure out how to put consciousness into a robot body and then make me look like the Major from GITS.
Or fire my preseved body into the depths of space so another intelligence can work on it.
Mostly don't care, however I like the idea of the method that makes it so my corpse fertilizes the tree used as my marker. Beyond that, just toss me in a landfill.
Ideally? Loaded in to a rocket and sent in the same general direction as the voyager 1
Acclerated to supersonic velocities at very specific people, you know the ones
Launched from the solar system on a path out of the galaxy. Or left in the wilderness for nature to have it's way.
Put me in a haunted house. Use my skeleton to scare people or in movies or whatever.
I want to be cremated, I don't care what happens after that. I tell my wife to just put me in the bin.
Not so much what I want done with my corpse but what I'd like to do with my life; die on Mars.* Even if it means lithobraking into Olympus Mons due to a miscommunication about imperial and metric units.
However, I have a few other ideas as well.
Most epic; funeral pyre boat.
Most metal; feed my corpse into a woodchipper and use the viscera for fertilizer.
Most likely; buried a bit shallow under a young sapling.
*: Excellent album by the Callous Daoboys
I don't think I have any specific wishes. My family can do whatever will make them at peace.
I suggest putting some thought into it. Because when you die, the people who love you will be distraught and overwhelmed. Having some kind of prepared plan will be a gift to them, and honoring your wishes (even if you don't feel strongly about them now) will help them with the grieving process.
Wrap me in linen and put me somewhere nice for all I care. Only hiccup is a keepsake I'd likely want to be buried with that isn't very biodegradable... Maybe I'll pass it on to somebody?? We'll see
Cremated, composted, something like that. I'll be dead so I'm not too picky. Just as long as nobody wastes money on a fucking coffin.
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