I want mine donated to science.

Clerics of all religions are far too swept up in their mythologies to consider practicalities - such as acres and acres and MILES of land leeching embalming fluid into the groundwater from bodies not decaying fast enough to benefit the soil. This land could be used for far better purposes than awaiting a paleolithic fairy tale. Funeral costs are obscene; an industry taking advantage of people at their most vulnerable. Both burial and cremation have negative environmental impacts but green options are not yet widely available. When my husband died I had him cremated with no funeral service. I have the ashes of his bones in a lovely chest in my living room - thus he's always with me. I find it gross and macabre to imagine him rotting (very slowly) in a box in the ground someplace else where I have to travel to stare at the ground and imagine his grotesquerie beneath my feet. Ugh.

Cremation -- no funeral or service.

Planning a "green burial." One of my friends owns some land in the country. There is a cemetery that only has two burials – infants who died around 1860. A green burial means just like those children were buried. Dig a hole at least 3 feet deep and roll my earthly remains back into the earth. The funeral industry has a powerful lobby, but some type of green burial is allowed in most states. Further info: greenburialcouncil.org.

Cremation for me. I'm an organ donor though.

It's been over 30 years since I first read this poetic sentiment on the wall of a bathroom I was visiting, but I offer it here for your consideration:

When I die, bury me deep.
With a big bag of cannabis at my feet.
Put papers and matches into my hand,
And I'll find my own way to the Promised Land.

I don't care. I'm an organ donor, what happens after that is up to my BFF, my executor, and my girlfriend / wife if I have one at the time.

Neither, my body is going to a body farm for forensic study. I will slowly decay in whatever circumstances they decide in the hopes that whatever they learn from it can be used to solve murders.

When I die, I've let everyone in my family know my plans, in the hopes of cutting off people surviving me who think they know better than I what I really want (trust me, it happens). I carry a card in my wallet from a nearby medical school that states upon my demise my body is to go to their school for a period of one year. After that time, I'll be cremated and the ashes returned to my wife, should she still be living. It's the least expensive option for my survivors, and I like the thought that I'll be helping medical students gain valuable hands-on experience.

My mother wanted this for herself, but when the time came I was out-voted by other family members who were dismayed by her choice. "Do you realize what they do with those bodies?" they asked. Actually, I do. Among other things they cut out pieces of you and pass them around the room for show and tell. A few, to relieve their nervousness, probably make crude remarks. And they all see you in all you're dead, naked glory. It wouldn't have bothered her, and it won't bother me. Nevertheless, the rest of the family voted to have her cremated immediately, which may have settled their queasiness, but did nothing to respect the wishes that she had made clear for years.

So the answer is -- eventually -- cremation.

What ever the people I leave behind want. What do I care, I am dead!

Cremation for me. I wish to be buried at sea and that is a requirement of the process. I am also an organ donor, so the box will be a little lighter.

Teleportation into space. Don't need my dead body contributing to pollution. Maybe my ashes will knock out a Fox satellite.

I'd like to be stuffed and mounted in a hunting lodge with a sign that says "the hunter does not always win!"

I'm an organ donor. Then cremation. Considering one of those Bio Urn things. Anyone have any experience with them (obviously not personal! LOL)?

Neither, I want to be put on a pyre barge pushed out into some water and have everyone shoot flaming arrows at my ass.

I donated my body to science. I hope they launch me in a cannon in an attempt to reach the moon! I think I've posted this before...

Water cremation. Much more environmentally friendly.

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I plan on cremation, and then having my ashes dumped in Puget Sound.

I have tried to let my children know I want the cheapest and easiest option available which I assume is cremation. I would care if they could legally dump my corpse in the desert for the vultures. I obviously won't care, whatever makes them happy.

Cremation

Stuff a ham bone up my ass and toss me to the wolves.

Burn this body.

I have willed my body to our medical school n my state and it becomes their property once they take possession. Once they have finish with their use of it, they will cremate my remains and return the ashes to my family if my family wants it, if not the ashes will be spread in a garden on their premises. I am OK with that.

I'd probably go with cremation just so I don't burden my children with the upkeep of a grave, they can always keep me in a jar on the mantle piece should they so choose but I do quite like the argument for burial given by Neil de Grasse Tyson.

Ive done paid for a $8,000.00 funeral that cost $3000.00 A long time ago. That's what it's worth today. I told my wife to just cremate me if possible and save the rest for her to be cremated. Or visa versa. The easier thing to do for both of us.