So I made a post of burial sites (asking which was your style) which I quickly learned everybody would prefer to be cremated. Â So now I will post the urns.
Or if you want to be scattered into a hurricane like clevername (not a bad idea)
Or if drowning and being digested by a shark is your style, that’s fine.
Or perhaps being shipped into space
(Yes I realize there are a lot more things, I am just wondering out of these, and yes I know some of you are going to ask ‘what if I choose none?’ Then obviously this post doesn’t pertain to you even though I was just wondering ‘out of these assuming you didn’t choose anything else’)
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Is that wooden box really an urn?
Yes, Bipolar American. Some people are boring.
The second one is really nice.
But when I go I would prefer they throw my remains I to a random field.
No need to keep a memorial of me.
Its not like I need to be remebered.
funny you should mention space…
that other thread got me thinking, what if humanity started launching all their waste at the sun? My best guess is that it would not destabilize or otherwise significantly impact the sun in any way… we could even aim for “near” the sun, so that it would all simply be incinerated without ever impacting the actual sun itself.
However, i’m sure it would be expensive as shit to continually life large amounts of refuse in containers attached to rockets, to be flung toward the sun from orbit.
So here’s another one: “throw me at the sun.” I rather like the idea of my materials being completely removed from earth’s ecosystems.
The Koji, that is where I came up with drowning and being digested by a shark. There would be nothing left of me . . . I would just disappear with a nothing left behind. No body for anybody to take of, nothing.
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Clevername, the sun one would be cool. . . if only we could get a body that far. Then I’d be in on that one.
It would take over 7 years to arrive at the sun with today’s technology
once outside of earth’s orbit, it would be pretty easy to get a body to the sun. In space, anything you propel keeps going until it hits something.
Throw me at the sun. I’ll get there eventually, or i’ll hit venus or mercury or some comet and burn up there… or maybe get planted on some asteroid and be discovered a billion years from now by aliens.
We’d just have to calculate it so that nothing gets flung back at us by temporarily orbiting something else.
Hah! Getting thrown in a random field! Some poor bloke owns that property!
Ah didnt realize that. Maybe down the toilet I go. Seems most suited for shit to end up anyways.
Except you are not shit Koji. Why would we flush valuable things down the toilet? (rehtorical).
I wanna go to science. Then, maybe if I’ve failed in life, I can still be useful in death.
I forgot “becoming a cadaver in a lab”. But I didn’t know people who commited suicide could do that . . . plus, that would be my last option. Ever. I mean, people studying the one thing I wish to be forgotten? No thanks.
I’m sure it depends on the method you choose but I’ve always thought it’d be more up my street than going up in flames.
I’m also not sure anyone ever forgets suicide. The last thing you ever do is generally the mark of the human you are, or that’s how it’s remembered. So struggle on !
We are stardust.
Billion year old carbon.
We are golden..
Caught in the devil’s bargain
And we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden
shipped into space!!!!!! well I’m a rocketman! 🙂
Thank you StruggleOn.
At least theres one that doesnt think im shit. 🙂
Well, and I’m not being facetious – my preference is actually illegal in most major cities. I want to be simply flushed down the nearest toilet. I would consider it an honor, and I would not continue to be a superfluous object taking up space that could be used for something more beneficial.
@nozmoking You know, in a way that happens to everyone. Not the entire body, but the blood. When we die, in most places part of the process of preparing the body for burial/cremation is to draw out all the blood from the body. This blood is usually put back into a water purification system, just like everything that goes down your toilet. Precious water cannot be wasted. I’m not an expert and I don’t know the details, but I thought I’d share this morbid little piece of information.
Well the shark is beautiful but I won’t pollute the ocean with my ashes. I only want to be shipped to space if I’m alive enough to enjoy it. Sooo. I don’t want to be buried, and I don’t want my gross ashes hanging around on my poor mothers’ mantle. I’m going to go with “magical disappearance.”
I would so want to be cremated and have my ashes thrown into random outer space, unfortunately though I don’t think anyone will do this for me. Fucking nanny government only gives us limited amounts of options, either be cremated and kept in an urn or be buried in a casket.
I think this too though is just as much a violation of our rights and self ownership as prohibiting suicide. It is our bodies so we each individually should be in charge of what happens to our bodies after we are gone, not the government’s decision to make.
I want my ashes off this planet when I die, and not JUST off this planet, also, not being stored in some fucking government NASA space center or some odd shit, I don’t want those fuckers cloning me in another hundred or thousand years. So I don’t want them collecting and storehousing my DNA in space. Just throw my ashes out there and let them go where they will.
If youre outside of earths orbit, youre still in suns orbit and it would take not just a little amount of energy to get your periapsis to meet the sun. Im not sure about the relations but Id guess it would take at least the amount of acceleration you need to reach escape velocity on earth.