Burial or Cremation?

wexie

Gael23 wrote: »

There’s a new thing where a body is dissolved in chemicals. I’m not sure what it’s called,

the Sopranos option?

_Dara_

Edgarfrndly wrote: »

Buried. Give my body back to the earth. Being cremated is such a weird thing to me.

Make sure it’s a shallow burial then. There are a few shallow burial places in Ireland. Six feet under is not actually that helpful. Needs to be closer to the surface.

20Cent

Only two requests.

1. Body scattered across O'Connell St.
2. No cremation

wexie

Whichever makes those I leave behind most comfortable, up and including of :

ARNOLD J RIMMER

wexie wrote: »

Whichever makes those I leave behind most comfortable, up and including of :

dont get too close

thomasm

ARNOLD J RIMMER wrote: »

Just looking at the Death stats in Ireland

Correct me if Im wrong but on average there are 36000 deaths per year ( Based on 2017 figures )

Using google it shows me 3 Crematoriums in Ireland.

With the current trend of people moving away from Religion and 60% of the survey wanting to be cremated. I would think in the next few decades, Crematoriums popping up in every county in Ireland.

Spoke to someone about this recently and he said a local undertaker had priced this up and the figure he came up with was €2 million. Need an awful of people opting for creamation to make that viable

Alun

Definitely cremation, just dump my ashes somewhere up in the mountains. I don't go for all this morbid gravestones and flowers and visiting the grave every Sunday nonsense.

Amalgam

Gael23 wrote: »

There’s a new thing where a body is dissolved in chemicals. I’m not sure what it’s called,

Google: Resomator

There's lots on YouTube about the Resomator too.

There's two or three variations, one uses chemicals and heat, the other, more interesting one uses vibrations.

The second one is so 'neutral' to the environment that the residue water can be dumped into the municipal water system to be reused.

Apologies, the only comprehensive link I could find was the Daily Mail..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4895712/New-type-cremation-DISSOLVES-bodies-LIQUID.html

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Reminds me a bit of the Brazen_bull (Wikipedia), bones glistened like gems and gold after victims remains were recovered..

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EDIT Promession is the alternative 'cold' method. Freeze drying and vibration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promession

Promession has been touted for at least a decade and used in some Nordic countries.

Rubberlegs

Burial most definitely for me and plant a few rose bushes on top of me. The thoughts of being burnt is just horrible to me. I don't even like the thoughts of dealing with anyone else's ashes should it ever arise. Knowing my luck there'd be a breeze and I'd get a face full

Capt'n Midnight

marklazarcovic wrote: »

The lack.of crematoriums in Ireland is shocking

Have you seen the fuss over a few incenerators ?


Also there's this documentary showing the technicalities of setting up one.
https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/home/?srchTxt=cu%20burn

myshirt

How many posts in and not one person has said theyd like to be buried balls deep in Bibi Baskin.

Sciprio

I go for cremation even though i'll probably get buried if i died suddenly. I don't like the idea of getting funky in a box. I know you won't noticed anything but the thought of being trapped inside a box underground rotting away doesn't sit well with me. Just release my ashes out in the open is all i'd want or as i said before(Snorted by grandkids)

Atoms for Peace

wexie wrote: »

Whichever makes those I leave behind most comfortable, up and including of :

The Fargo option.

Graces7

Mutant z wrote: »

Yes the Catholic Church has historically been opposed to cremation and in favour of burial.

Allowed now but against scattering of ashes.

kenmc

Buried at sea for me, let the fishes eat me, fairs fair given how many of them I've eaten through the years

wexie

kenmc wrote: »

Buried at sea for me, let the fishes eat me, fairs fair given how many of them I've eaten through the years

By that logic you'd have to drop me to the nearest pig farm

umop episdn

wexie wrote: »

By that logic you'd have to drop me to the nearest pig farm

Hmmm, where would you go if you ate a lot of pussy ?

wexie

umop episdn wrote: »

Hmmm, where would you go if you ate a lot of pussy ?

ISPCA

MikeyTaylor

Cremation or donation to science for me.

LirW

Dress me smug with a leather jacket and put ray bans on my face, break into some random House and sit my body on the couch, so the randomly selected family has a lovely morning surprise.

Madagascan

Voted Cremation though the airplane thing and the hand grenades sounds fun!

TomOnBoard

MikeyTaylor wrote: »

Cremation or donation to science for me.

All joking aside, that donation to science is a great thing to do...

Witchie

Cremation for me.

My parents both want that too so we are considering the using the ashes to grow trees thing and maybe start a mini family forest!

I think it would be nice if could plant something that intertwines with another plant so they can be together.

Recently my mum said she wants some of her ashes scattered at the point on the border between her home county and the one she made our family home where She used to cross to come meet my dad. Luckily it is in a beautiful boggy mountain so will be a sweet place to say goodbye.

Gadgetman496

Witchie wrote: »

Cremation for me.

My parents both want that too so we are considering the using the ashes to grow trees thing and maybe start a mini family forest!

I think it would be nice if could plant something that intertwines with another plant so they can be together.

Recently my mum said she wants some of her ashes scattered at the point on the border between her home county and the one she made our family home where She used to cross to come meet my dad. Luckily it is in a beautiful boggy mountain so will be a sweet place to say goodbye.

That all sounds just perfect

suicide_circus

sky burial

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial

DEFTLEFTHAND

A garda friend of mine witnessed an exhumation and told me he couldn't eat for days after it.

The body in his case had been buried for 9 years.


They don't go to bones swiftly, they rot and fester for years.


The smell apparently is unbelievable.


The coffin lid in this case had crushed and the rest was filled with water.


This heavily decomposed body then had to be sent for a postmortem examination .


God only knows how these people do their jobs.

Chinasea

Is it not enough to have lived. Why should humans continue to take up space after they die.

Graveyards are another selfish unevironmental act. They should be outlawed.

Subcomandante Marcos

Cremation, ashes placed in a bio urn and used to grow an Oak tree.

Lorelli!

Birneybau wrote: »

Fired into the Sun

Hunter S Thompson style!

I always said I'd prefer to be buried.

wexie

I'm surprised to see so few people are picking the airplane&grenades option.

I'd quite like the change from having the red mist descending to being the descending red mist

Gadgetman496

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

Cremation, ashes placed in a bio urn and used to grow an Oak tree.

Ash is a common term used to describe the contents of the urn post-cremation but that term is a misconception, the only part of a human that doesn't burn is their bones and it is a portion of their bone that is crushed into a fine dust\powder and placed in the urn, not ash.