Funerals

My grandparents came from large families, so I've been to a lot of funerals. All of them involved expensive caskets, expensive vaults, lots of flowers, standard-sized grave plots, and expensive grave markers. I think this custom is a huge waste of resources. Only the living need bodies, so what is all this expense for? Why the hell does anybody need a water-tight vault to put a casket in? The body is going to rot anyway! And the land is going to be tied up forever, of no use to anyone, even hundreds of years after the dead person has been forgotten.

No matter what you believe about what happens to the spirit of the deceased, obviously there is no reason to try and preserve the body to some degree for a while. Even the bones will be gone someday, and there are people whose bodies are never recovered after an accident at sea or in the wilderness.

I'm sure that funeral directors put great pressure on vulnerable family members to spend as much money as possible. That's why it is important to think through this issue and make plans in advance.

My wife and I are going to be cremated, with our ashes scattered, and no memorial of any kind left behind. Our friends (if any are left by then) can look at old pictures and remember us when we were alive.

 

Yeah, I agree. I want to be cremated as well. Being buried is a waste of space, and I hate this Christian shit that often goes along with it.

Not meaning to sound offense, but since a priest spoke about Jesus until he had to be told to stop at a relatives 'non-religious' burial, the church can fuck themselves.

 

I agree completely. It's a huge waste. I'll donate my body to science...whatever they can't use, will be cremated.

 

Yeah. After I die, I want to be fed to something. Hopefully get poo-ed out under a tree. Back to the earth with me.

 

i'm gonna be a cadaver.. then they can cremate me afterward.

 

I'm donating anything possible anyone could use from my body then I want this to happen with my remaining ashes.
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That way I benefit tons and tons of organisms for quite some time, while taking up only a little space and giving back to the earth.

When you get burried you have chemicals pumped into your body that can be harmful, then you're burried in a casket made from some poor tree, and burried in the ground in a watertight casket and no organisms are helped. Not even worms, because of the shitload of chemicals used to preserve you for awhile.
I think being preserved would be really crappy. I wanna go back to the earth.

 

WANTED

1 human brain
2 human kidneys
Ketchup

No questions asked.

 

No fava beans or a nice chianti?

 

???

Ok then haha.

 

NO QUESTIONS DAMMIT!!

I am not a cannibal.

 

He wants to play a practical joke on somebody.

 

The idea of cremation, really freaks me out.

 

hmmmm... i dont know... maybe cremation is the way to go for me.. i think id rather that than rot away.. and have you ever been to a funeral when someone is cremated?? its so much less harsh than when someone is bein buried...

when theyre bein cremated a little curtain just gets pulled across, and its kinda peacful.. but when someone is buried your like standing there watching this person you loved being buried , covered in dirt.... its just a bit harsh to look at...

but i dont want my ashes thrown away .. id like someone to keep them, like my granny died, and she wanted her ashes scattered, so obviously thats what we're goin to do.. but i dont wanna throw her ashes away

i have jewellery belongin ti her and pictures that i can remember her by i suppose though...

thats just me bein clingy not wantin to let go

 

Why? You aren't going to know about it if it is done to you.

I haven't. That would be interesting.

 

I should hope not!

I don't know, the idea of being burnt and being able to fit into a tiny bottle..... really don't like it.

 

well i dont mean while theyre actually bein cremated

i dont know what way to word it though haha

 

That has to do with not accepting the idea of being dead. Like I said before, dead people don't need bodies. Size or shape or location doesn't matter. Being alive and stuffed in a bottle would be horrendous, but probably no worse than being buried alive six feet underground.

Like it or not, accept it or not, someday you're going to die and not need a body anymore.

 

I am going to be cremated too, and spread either in the ocean or in the ground... I dislike funerals, its a waist of money. If anything I would want a party, that celebrates me reaching the end of my journey.

 

You feel better about having your blood siphoned out, replaced with a chemical cocktail, and then having the rest of your body sliced, diced, painted, stiched, and worse so that a bunch of people can look at you in a creepy ritual and cry?

 

Stupidest thing commonly heard at funerals: "He looks so good."

Reality check! He's fucking dead!