As an atheist what do you want done with your remains when you die?
I want to be fed to something or to be buried in a simple coffin with an oak or elm tree planted over me.
I'm thinking an old fridge box and a trip to the landfill.
Eww! I hope I'm not the one who finds your grisly remains!
@smoyle Another good reason to avoid dumpster diving or rummaging around the landfill site.
Cremated and then my ashes spread in either a vineyard or Gobeklitepe. I can not fathom the thought of being buried in a box filled with chemicals. What a stupid concept.
Assuming I'd be relatively healthy meat, it would be nice to be laid out on the African Plains, and get recycled into all those wonderful animals (assuming they wouldn't be extinct !). But I l know that's likely not allowed.
So next choice is being part of the Body Farm, to help catch bad guys ! That could work.
They do that in some parts of India, lay you out on the mountain for the eagles (and vultures).
I want to be composted.
This particular facility looks like what I imagined the Dying Hospital to look like in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. That sealed the deal. ?
I would like to do this as well! I would like to have a memorial sculpture in a cemetery.
My first choice would be to have my remains donated to science and let them use whatever the heck they want to. I'm dead, what do I care.
Second would for me to be cremated and scattered over various places that I really like. Maybe also pick a nice spot and plant a tree where my ashes are mixed with dirt used in planting the tree.
I don't really get the point of graveyards. We don't need to bury our dead. That just seems like a waste of space.
I want to be cremated, put in my girl friends douche, and get in there one final time.
Charming.
Are we still in the douche age?
@Ellatynemouth Just a silly, humorous response. I am assuming we are all adults here.
@Ellatynemouth Actually, I have willed my body to a teaching medical hospital. What they do with it is entirely their discretion.
@DarwinistOne I never was.
I like that idea... Trees growing from our remains.
I'd like to be cremated, and have the ashes compressed into a gemstone, so I could be mounted in a ring or other heirloom piece, and worn by my descendants on special occasions.
"Mom, can I wear Grandpa Derek to the prom?"
"As long as you don't loose him, sure! He'd love that!"
I have signed up for MedCure. When you die, they pick up your body for medical tests and after about 6 weeks they cremate it and give the remains to family. This is all free, you simply make one phone and they do everything and if it will help someone, I'm all for it.
I want to rebel from the high costs of funerals and be buried in a refrigerator box in my backyard. Since the law won't allow that, I hope to have enough strength to make it into the woods. It's about time we humans gave back to Mother Nature. I am having second thoughts about donating my body so that others may have my bits and pieces to save their lives. What if my body parts saves a pedophile or rapists or the next crazy, murderous dictator?
What if they save the first atheist world leader who is destined to finally rid the world of religion! "Oh no, we can't have a safe world because gypsyjane's organs went on to feed a racoon." ?
So your thought is my thought. ...self interment. ...there are Green Atheist private cemeteries in Iowa SC NY anywhere private property can legally bury a cadaver with a death certificate no listed diseases are causes of death. ...here lies B Franklin, PRINTER food for worms
I like the theatrics of being put on a viking longship and set on fire.
I'd really like to be launched into space though.
If my wife's having to deal with it then i'd rather not be a bother and just go in the bin with the other waste on a wednesday night.
Dont have any problems with medical research wanting my body, or being sent to a cadaver farm if thats easier for her.
If my brother is dealing with my funeral then I demand he uses my carcass for something inappropriately funny that may cause mild (but easily recoverable) distress to others.
Im also ok with taxidermy.
Best response.
I've told my kids to take my ashes mix them with clay , mold 1.5" balls , glaze and fire them and hand them out as party favors at my memorial get together . If I know my kids its not gonna happen . Get rid of the body as soon as possible I'm dead your alive move on I loved you .
I don't care.
Whatever my family choose to do with them and whatever Iis cheapest. They can bury me in the garden for all I will care.
That said, I really always wanted a Viking funeral - sent out to sea in a burning longboat!
That'll do nicely thanks.
I really dig this concept: [eternalreefs.com] I could definitely enjoy attracting marine communities to congregate for future generations' fishing and scuba diving pleasure.
I've given my life to science, I'll give my death to science too.