I'm torn between donating my organs to help save lives vs. donating my body to science. I wish I could do both.

I want to be cremated, put in my girl friends douche, and get in there one final time.

I'm thinking an old fridge box and a trip to the landfill.

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?

I don’t know if I will actually carry it out, but I visualize a self-cremation. I might build a pyre, get it burning, climb on and shoot myself with my pistol, thus making a joyful and dramatic exit and side-stepping the medical and funeral industries as well as silly bureaucrats.

A friend told me that it would be a shame to burn up a perfectly good pistol. I have the feeling he’d come over and do the job if he got to keep the pistol.

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.

I want to be composted.

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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 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.

I had thought about this before. And I came up with the strange but interesting answer. I want my friends and family to eat me.

So I would always be a part of them...

Definitely cremation. That way, they can keep some of the ashes and then do that thing where they put my ashes in a pod of dirt and plant me so I can grow into a tree or something.

I thought i wanted to donate them to medical science and sent off for the forms then found out that they might now want my dead body and it would have to be disposed of some other way so probably cremation...

Google Bios Urn... I want something like that, basically the exact idea you have, but (hopefully) done efficiently so that you don't need to buy a coffin.

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.

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.

That sounds good to me.

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'll be dead.
Not my problem.

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'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 .

My cremains are to be dealt with as my survivors see fit. We have talked about what they want and I am more than ok with it.

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'd love to be put into a capsule - frozen and then launched into space only to be discovered by Aliens lol.

I want my body donated to science. Anything that is leftover can then be buried so that I can fertilize a new generation of something.

I really dig this concept: [eternalreefs.com] I could definitely enjoy attracting marine communities to congregate for future generations' fishing and scuba diving pleasure.