Rotting

It's ugly. I don't want to rot when I die. I want to be cremated. And then I can become a diamond.

http://www.phoenix-diamonds.com/

We should make a petition for nature to make decomposition prettier. People could just explode like fireworks, maybe. Anyone agrees?

I think its a natural part of life that we should become part of the soul again.

I would, if it would not be infeasible or too expensive (remember: this would probably be 60 years from now), would like to be cremated, and then have my remains sent into space, so that my remains can travel the cosmos for all eternity.

I guess that's kind of weird, though. I can admit as much, but I do agree that being buried and letting nature slowly decay my flesh and bone doesn't seem like a very "pretty" disposal method.

Soil?

I just think it's a waste of resources with the coffin and the clothes and even freaking presents. Plus my remains would be allowed to stay inside the house and not in the middle of some future farmland if I were cremated.

Don't have a problem with rotting though. I like watching fungus grow on rotting tree stumps. Haven't had to actually see maggots devouring a corpse to be disgusted by the thought.

edited 27th Sep '13 10:31:08 PM by AnSTH

I'm just such a beautiful construct to suffer such degradation. I think quick disintegration would feel more dignified.

I wouldn't want to go that way.

After the fact? Sure, but I might prefer a painless death to a quick one.

What if it's so quick your nervous system can't even register the pain?

Like how?

Technically speaking, you'll be part of the soil again, even as a diamond.

Might not be the same soil, but you're bound to hit something eventually.

Star, Planet, Blackhole, it probably did or will have dirt in it at some point.

I don't plan on rotting or exploding. Immortality, bitches.

I want to experience my death. Thus I think a not too quick and at least somewhat unpleasant demise is of the order, as long as it doesn't involve the suffering of others.

As for last rites, I want a happy, colourful funeral and my body to be fed straight to the wolves and vultures.

If I die, I want my body thrown into a peat bog in Scotland along with an ancient Egyptian sceptre, a copy of the Torah (Jewish holy text), a sombrero, some distinctly Mongolian pottery, a bag of dildos, and any kind of Native American totem pole.

Future archaeologists will have no idea what in the fuck they're looking at.

So few people go for a good old fashioned sky burial these days. Kudos!

I once heard a biologist who was fiercely against cremation. All your life, your body - and the bodies of the plants of animals you ate - had worked to create complex organic molecules full of energy, and you would waste that by just burning it all? No, the stuff should go back into the ecosystem, he said. 'It's the Ciiiiiiiiiiiiiiircle of Life...'

^ Yeah fuck that noise.

For me, just slap on a steak or three to me when I die and leave me on the mountain. The bears will handle the rest.

Putting a twist on the Zoroastrian tradition, eh? ;)

I wouldn't mind being turned into a steak after I die.

I'd also like a sky burial, but aren't those not legal in most places? Really, though, I doubt that I'll have much use for my body after I die, so just dispose of it in an environmentally-friendly way and it's all good. Maybe donate any still-useful bits to science/medicine/whatevs.

Before I do all the fun stuffs, I will donate all my organs and whatever parts that can be salvageable.

I'd assume he's against embalming as well.

Actually, I like the idea of letting my loved ones have a bite. I mean, how much closer can you get to someone than ingesting their corporeal essence ?

Tape, are you a follower of Valentine Michael Smith?

Cemeteries are a waste of land.

Oi, Miku .

I don't think they will be lacking in nature anytime soon, if every human is cremated or something

Unless we start cremating everything that dies. Good thing other animals don't care about these things...