When I die I want a green burial - I want my body to be used to feed the earth. I don't want to be buried in a coffin so that the nutrients in my body are denied to the earth. Just use me as fertilizer and that will be enough.
You all have good ideas about what to do with the body after death. I have also wanted to have a green burial. I've heard there is a possibility to cremate my body so that only the most basic elements are left. This way, it will be easier for the bacteria and other living organisms to consume me.
But the point about dying in the woods so the animals can eat me is not bad. However, there are not many funerals in my area, and what happens if someone finds my remnants? Maybe I have to leave a note saying I was not killed?
Even if nothing of this works out, I would prefer direct funeral services. Meaning my friends and family would not go to the cemetery but gather somewhere to remember me one last time.
I have left my body to the local medical school, learning has been my life, so afterwards perhaps I can still help someone else do the same.
To die alone in the woods, so that the animals can eat.
That had always been my thought too, with a preference to feed something higher up on the food chain. But then, you know, you hate to burden your friends to carry your bits out into the boonies. Plus, I read that we are extremely toxic. So, seriously, getting processed by carrion flies is probably the best thing for all concerned. Some such preprocessing would probably make us better compost and that's the afterlife I'm looking for.
There’s a guy who's written the best books on my beautiful former state. He and I like cemeteries; strangely, I’d stumbled on to his favorite - and purchased 6 plots (the most they’d sell at one time, and ya had to have kin in the area) in the oldest section near the hilltop.
Now, 3 thousand miles away, with the logistics of shipping ‘my body’ across the continent.. I plan to be cremated. A daughter has described sprinkling ‘some of me’ around my home state’s most magnificent places. Nitrogen, Calcium, Salts ...instantly available to living organisms..
Encased in a coffin six feet under a beautiful landscape no longer sounds as ..worthwhile