Discussion Do you want to be cremated after death?

[HadItAll]

I personally want to as I don't want people looking at my body in a funeral. And I hate the idea of my body getting eaten by worms in a coffin.

I'd just want my urn to be buried.

 

[jodes2]

I want to be cremated so I don't risk waking up 6 feet under

 

[mayhem]

i wouldn't want to get cremated because i feel like then i'd be useful for once, for the environment and stuff. like at least different bugs would benefit from that and i could contribute to the cycle in a way, if that makes sense.

 

[Source Energy]

I want to be cremated so I don't risk waking up 6 feet under

I wouldn't want to wake up in the oven either....idk what would be worse

I prefer to be cremated too. No becoming food for the worms, and not making people feel obligated to visit a tomb where I am not anyway, and shed tears and get sad there for no reason. No let's go visit S' grave and cry on death's anniversary, Day of the Dead, etc...what for?
plus, the cost and trouble maintaining the grave...all that headache, what for? it's just a pile of bones

 

[outrider567]

No--I'll be at the highest point in the outside mausoleum

 

[FireFox]

Cremation for me personally I just find so uncomfortable.

I dont feel comfortable my family having a piece of me leftover in their homes in a box sitting in the living room or whatever room of the house. No No No the whole thing just makes me uncomfortable thinking about it.

 

[HadItAll]

Cremation for me personally I just find so uncomfortable.

I dont feel comfortable my family having a piece of me leftover in their homes in a box sitting in the living room or whatever room of the house. No No No the whole thing just makes me uncomfortable thinking about it.

Yeah, I'll want my urn to be buried, not sitting at someone's home lol.

 

[Unhumanly.]

I want to decompose and be one with the nature, I don't care what will people feel as they see my deadbody decomposed, as they never being empathized or care about my feelings when I'm alive

I have a fantasy sometimes that a plant will grow in my deadbody and I'll be deep buried by the plant

 

[umbra_]

I would like to be composted or planted as a tree.

 

[HerculePoirot]

No, because my sixty kg of flesh would be more useful in a compost than my one kg of ash.

 

[jodes2]

I'd want my ashes to be burried at some rave site I'll be raving forever

 

[liverhood]

does it matter? you can't care about your body when you're dead. pondering such questions is just as pointless as doing anything else

 

[looking_for_peace]

yeah, only because the thought of my body decomposing is gross. there's a part of me afraid that I will somehow witness this, lol

 

[FuneralCry]

I would choose cremation over any kind of burial, as cremation is the closest thing to completely disappearing and I just prefer the sound of it, but anyway it isn't like I would be there at that point so it couldn't matter to me that much. Once I'm no longer existing nothing can concern me and to me that is perfection

 

[HadItAll]

does it matter? you can't care about your body when you're dead. pondering such questions is just as pointless as doing anything else

Knowing I'll be cremated will give me more peace while CTBing. That's all.

 

[Midnight-rain]

Not the most environmentally friendly option, so no.

 

[loveechoes]

Yes to cremation!

 

[LONE WOLF.]

Cremation for me so my ashes will be scattered with those of my 2 Staffies

 

[kaipuff]

yes, but not normally. personally, i want to be turned into a coral reef. i've always liked the ocean
that line sounds a little weird but here's what im talking about:
" Cremated remains are mixed with concrete and fitted into a mold, or sealed in a specially designed, waterproof concrete container in the shape of a "reef ball" which mimics a natural reef formation. Once the mold or container is complete, it is sunk to the bottom of the ocean to create an artificial reef. "

 

[Forever Sleep]

All of my family that I know of have been cremated- so it makes sense I go that way too. Aren't burials REALLY expensive as well?

 

[nonialabaster]

I wouldn't want to wake up in the oven either....idk what would be worse

I prefer to be cremated too. No becoming food for the worms, and not making people feel obligated to visit a tomb where I am not anyway, and shed tears and get sad there for no reason. No let's go visit S' grave and cry on death's anniversary, Day of the Dead, etc...what for?
plus, the cost and trouble maintaining the grave...all that headache, what for? it's just a pile of bones

When my husband died, I opted for direct cremation for him. He had been able to confirm those wishes to me, when he was still able to speak. He just asked me to, one day, scatter him in the San Francisco bay, where he lived when he was a young boy.
I have a dark sense of humor and joked to my friend, who took me to the funeral home to pick him up, that it cost about the same as it did to euthanize our cat and have her cremated. She was crying more than I was and seemed shocked that I was cracking jokes, right in the funeral home. Looking back, I was probably still in shock over his sudden death.
I'd always made it clear to my husband that I wanted my body donated to a medical school. He wasn't comfortable with that. So, I was like,"Hey, I'll be dead anyway. Do what you want with me."

All of my family that I know of have been cremated- so it makes sense I go that way too. Aren't burials REALLY expensive as well?

They are expensive. And, at least in Texas, weirdly legalistic. My dad bought four plots, all together, when his dad died. One for Grandad, one for Grandmommy (still alive at age 101) one for him and one for my Mom. Mom and dad divorced about 10 years later. She died in 2009 and opted for cremation. When my dad re-married, my brother and I had to sign a notarized affidavit to transfer Mom's plot to my dad's new wife. It was all very creepy. Especially since Dad already had all four tombstones up, with just one body in the ground. All their names on them, with year of birth and a blank space for year of death.

 

[Ruma]

No,would prefer to be buried in one piece.

 

[AJwantsToGo]

I want my body to be used as fertilizer for a cherry blossom tree, it's possible, or to be made into a crystal, also possible.

 

[hellispink]

I want cremation because having a grave is a waste of space because no one will care or remember me anyway. I dont think people should be wasting space burying people like idk its a lot of bodies on land that can be used for other purposes. And when it comes t worms and insects to be in the deceased person body, they must first enter somehow (usually by a fly that has red eyes etc). Most cadavers don't get those things if taken care in a cold safe place. Depends what weather is doing and where one dies.

 

[Tomie]

I don't really care as long as I'm gone. Play with my body, bury it, cremate it. It's not like I asked for it anyway.

 

[The Eeyorish One]

Part of me is freaked out by cremation just because I have that fear in the back of my head of "wait stop I'm not dead yet, don't burn me alive!"

Overall though it's likely what I'll request. It's cheaper than burial, and I don't really want people looking at me considering I'm a non passing trans person. If I were to be buried, at best everyone would be silently cringing, at worst they'd be openly disgusted.

 

[princess-oph]

No. I don't want the wrong people to have a piece of me

 

[DeathToSpiesSMERSH]

I want to be cremated so if people want a "piece" of me, they can have it.

 

[birdofafeather]

I want to be made either into a vinyl of my favourite album, as music meant so much to me, and I can somehow "live on" through it, or be composted and feed a tree. Being cremated takes away all my body's nutrients, which just kinda doesn't work out for me. I want to vanish, but join what I came from and what made me.

 

[angelcircuit]

As the body does not feel like mine I feel like being perceived as it would be bothersome. This is the only reason why I would want to be cremated, otherwise it does not make a difference to me. I'll be dead.