Burial or Cremation

Gael23

When you kick the bucket would you rather go 6 foot under or into the cremation furnace?

km991148

I think I'll be too busy being pissed off about being dead to care :pac:

iamstop

Gael23 wrote: »

When you kick the bucket would you rather go 6 foot under or into the cremation furnace?

Neither are very good for the environment. Consider a third option.

https://www.wired.com/story/alkaline-hydrolysis-liquid-biocremation/

Smee_Again

Pickled.

corner of hells

Cut up into equal sized pieces and buried at various locations around the country.

Pieces the size of a match box would be what I would be thinking.

Purgative

Bin Bag (a strong one)

Stovepipe

into the sea, you and me...

Thelonious Monk

Mushroom burial suit, good for the soil

https://www.bbc.com/news/48140812

I don't know why anyone would want a traditional grave with a headstone etc, it's just a waste of space.

Gael23

iamstop wrote: »

Neither are very good for the environment. Consider a third option.

https://www.wired.com/story/alkaline-hydrolysis-liquid-biocremation/

Would burial not provide fertiliser for the ground as you rot

Foweva Awone

I'll donate my body to one of the universities for medical students to work on. After that it'll be cremated.

Zaph

Probably buried, I'm not great with the heat.

Stihl waters

iamstop wrote: »

Neither are very good for the environment. Consider a third option.

https://www.wired.com/story/alkaline-hydrolysis-liquid-biocremation/

Is that available in Ireland

eviltwin

I'm hoping to donate my body to medical training. I can't think of a better use for me. After that cremate me and scatter my ashes somewhere nice.

skooterblue2

Stihl waters wrote: »

Is that available in Ireland

Yeah over in Galway

jimgoose

I have previously decreed that I shall be laid to rest in a 400-meter-square pyramid on the green opposite my house, accompanied by numerous serving-wenches, livestock and magnificent treasures. Before the final tomb-sealing there shall be a week-long official lying-in-state in the middle of the local pub, where my idjit mates can spend some time getting seriously pissed and saying things like "Would you look at the bollocks there lah, he never looked so well!" :cool:

skooterblue2

jimgoose wrote: »

I have previously decreed that I shall be laid to rest in a 400-meter-square pyramid on the green opposite my house, accompanied by numerous serving-wenches, livestock and magnificent treasures. Before the final tomb-sealing there shall be a week-long official lying-in-state in the middle of the local pub, where my idjit mates can spend some time getting seriously pissed and saying things like "Would you look at the bollocks there lah, he never looked so well!" :cool:

Seems a bit excessive....

duffysfarm

let the organ donor crowd take everything they want and then put me in the cheapest coffin available and throw me in a hole and let the maggots and worms eat away....

jimgoose

skooterblue2 wrote: »

Seems a bit excessive....

You think a week is too long?

Alun

iamstop wrote: »

Neither are very good for the environment. Consider a third option.

https://www.wired.com/story/alkaline-hydrolysis-liquid-biocremation/

That all sounds like a brilliant idea. Love what the guy who runs the machines calls breast implants ... jellyfish

ztoical

Stihl waters wrote: »

Is that available in Ireland

A Meath mortician announced they'd be opening the first aquamation centre in Ireland in 2020...I assume like most things in 2020 it's been delayed

skooterblue2

jimgoose wrote: »

You think a week is too long?

hmmmmm I dont want to rain on your parade but as a former altar boy, a body in a casket starts to smell after a few days. I had to serve at one a week later because family had to come from Australia..... It was one strong smell.

Gatling

Cremation for me ,

No point being dropped into a hole where you will be forgotten about ,

Fire up the oven for one last roast

jimgoose

skooterblue2 wrote: »

hmmmmm I dont want to rain on your parade but as a former altar boy, a body in a casket starts to smell after a few days. I had to serve at one a week later because family had to come from Australia..... It was one strong smell.

Not my problem - a week it is. Guards! Seize him!!

Alun

ztoical wrote: »

A Meath mortician announced they'd be opening the first aquamation centre in Ireland in 2020...I assume like most things in 2020 it's been delayed

There's a website, but not much else ...

https://www.watercremation.ie/

skooterblue2

jimgoose wrote: »

Not my problem - a week it is. Guards! Seize him!!

I didnt mean it!!!! I am sure you will smell wonderful in Hades!!

jimgoose

skooterblue2 wrote: »

I didnt mean it!!!! I am sure you will smell wonderful in Hades!!

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

skooterblue2

jimgoose wrote: »

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

Still they do a great barbecue down there. I love the hoofed ones chili ribs

Your Face

Id like to be tied to a tree in a forest and left there as carrion.

spaceHopper

Flushed down the toilet, good enough for goldfish good enough for me.

skooterblue2

spaceHopper wrote: »

Flushed down the toilet, good enough for goldfish good enough for me.

You are somewhat bigger than a goldfish? wouldnt you like your protein to be recycled for lab grown meat?

MsStote

Cremation in the Cork crematorium. Gorgeous place and so much cheaper. I have it in the will that I want the cheapest option, even if it is cardboard. I am to be placed into a biodegradable container. Then throw me off a cliff in West Cork lol no scattering ashes, I seen how horrible that goes wrong!

teroknor83

Cremation for me... A preparation for an eternity of heat

Gregor Samsa

spaceHopper wrote: »

Flushed down the toilet, good enough for goldfish good enough for me.

Good option. From the movies I've seen, you'll grow into a giant, mutant version of yourself down there and then escape in search of human flesh or become skilled in ninjutsu.

Gael23

spaceHopper wrote: »

Flushed down the toilet, good enough for goldfish good enough for me.

What would you like the workers at the sewage plant to do with you?

biko

Cremated. To make sure I'm really dead.

Gregor Samsa

Gael23 wrote: »

Would burial not provide fertiliser for the ground as you rot

It might, but what's the use in having a super fertile cemetery where no plants or crops are grown?

skooterblue2

MsStote wrote: »

Cremation in the Cork crematorium................ I seen how horrible that goes wrong!

Yeah but it is funny when it does go wrong.

corner of hells

jimgoose wrote: »

I have previously decreed that I shall be laid to rest in a 400-meter-square pyramid on the green opposite my house, accompanied by numerous serving-wenches, livestock and magnificent treasures. Before the final tomb-sealing there shall be a week-long official lying-in-state in the middle of the local pub, where my idjit mates can spend some time getting seriously pissed and saying things like "Would you look at the bollocks there lah, he never looked so well!" :cool:

Can I have a couple of the wenches when you've been sealed in your tomb ?

buried

Buried at sea.

I likes me seafood so its only fair to give a bit back.

skooterblue2

corner of hells wrote: »

Can I have a couple of the wenches when you've been sealed in your tomb ?

You dirty article, you want to dip your spoon into someone elses porridge?

jimgoose

corner of hells wrote: »

Can I have a couple of the wenches when you've been sealed in your tomb ?

No! They're mine, get your own harem. Bloody peasants...

seamus

I don't think my family need to be burdened either with the cost of a burial, nor the ongoing maintenance of a plot and the inevitable guilt when they realise they haven't been there in years. If they want to, they can fire away. Funerals are for the living.

Went to see my grandparents' plot in September. Took us an hour to find it because nobody had been to it in 20 years. Headstone was fine, but many others were not. Just faded, worn down stones beside a patch of grass that would look like any other if you didn't know different.

Bit of a sad, pointless tribute. At least if ashes are eventually scattered, there can be a final, dignified end.

A crumbling burial plot is in many ways an undignified end ultimately. A last desperate gasp to remain relevant and remembered in the face of oblivion.

.anon.

Whichever is cheapest and most convenient. Whatever happens, I absolutely 100% do not want my remains to be on display in a funeral home for every cunt and his mother to maul and make banal observations on how well I look.

buried

Burials in the ground will soon be gone. Authorities won't buy land for the living. They're hardly are going to do it for the dead.

MetzgerMeister

I want to be cremated while Rammstein's "Feuer Frei" is playing. Just when it drops I want the flames to soar

corner of hells

buried wrote: »

Burials in the ground will soon be gone. Authorities won't buy land for the living. They're hardly are going to do it for the dead.

Apt name for the thread.

OldRio

seamus wrote: »

I don't think my family need to be burdened either with the cost of a burial, nor the ongoing maintenance of a plot and the inevitable guilt when they realise they haven't been there in years. If they want to, they can fire away. Funerals are for the living.

Went to see my grandparents' plot in September. Took us an hour to find it because nobody had been to it in 20 years. Headstone was fine, but many others were not. Just faded, worn down stones beside a patch of grass that would look like any other if you didn't know different.

Bit of a sad, pointless tribute. At least if ashes are eventually scattered, there can be a final, dignified end.

A crumbling burial plot is in many ways an undignified end ultimately. A last desperate gasp to remain relevant and remembered in the face of oblivion.

On that happy note......

Gregor Samsa

Private graves go for up to $36,000 in Hong Kong, and can sometimes be resold for multiples of that. Those who can't afford that can opt for burial in a cheaper public cemetery, but you only get the spot for 6 years, then you have to exhume the corpse and either find somewhere else for it, or get it cremated.

Even if you opt for immediate cremation, there's a 7 year waiting list to get a spot for the ashes in a columbarium.

Culturally, burial is very important in China, and they celebrate Tomb-Sweeping Day as a public holiday, where it's traditional for families to gather and clean the graves of deceased loved ones.



https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2015/jan/21/crowded-cemeteries-hong-kong-in-pictures

PsychoPete

I'd like to be make into a taxidermy of me fighting a bear

Alejandro68

Cremated and rocketed into space!

boardise

Gael23 wrote: »

When you kick the bucket would you rather go 6 foot under or into the cremation furnace?

Cremation I reckon -great warm up for life in hell.