You know, if I had to be cremated, I think I would opt for the pyre cremation, but with my legs fixed to the pyre. When a body burns, the heat causes tendons to contract and I want to be arranged in such a way that when my tendons contract, it'll look like I am sitting up. Want to freak out the attendees.

/This happened while they were cremating the body of Rasputin. After he was poisoned, shot, beaten and stabbed and thrown into a river to drown, his murderers came back to burn the body to be sure that he was dead. Midway through the cremation, the corpse sat up, scaring many of the conspirators to his murder away.

Actually, cremations, IMO, seem to make more sense.
Regular burials cram your slowly rotting corpse into the ground, in an over priced coffin, shot full of toxic fluids to slow down the process of decay. In most cemeteries, you can't have a tombstone, just a ground level brass plaque -- to make it cheaper and easier for the groundskeepers to mow the grass. There you'll remain until your relatives forget about you, or the owners decide to sell the place or just abandon it. Then you might get dug up and moved to another place by folks who don't actually give a shiat if they get all of you or not.

In some cases, you might just get paved over.

Burials get more expensive as land becomes harder to find for such usage around cities and the more folks that get buried take up even more land.

The last time I checked a cremation cost about $2500. A burial was $6000 and up.

A lot of folks take the cremains to the loved one's favorite place and dispose of them there, scattering the ashes where weather makes short work of them. A lot of places also do not allow such disposal for obvious reasons.

Some places have memorial gardens where you may spread the ashes.

Some businesses will allow you to place the remains in cement forms, such as those used for artificial reefs. One company, for a huge price, will shoot you into space -- but only a couple of ounces of you. Plus, you go into orbit and after a few years, return to Earth to burn up in the atmosphere.

Personally, if I could get shot into space, I'd prefer that. All of me and not just into orbit, but headed out into deep space. Heck, I dreamed nearly all of my life about getting into space, but Congress squashed that with massive budget cuts. Getting shot into space by a private company as a pile of ashes seems the only way now. But the cost is hideous.

I'll probably ask my survivors to dispose of my ashes somewhere nice -- and probably not here in Florida. I've dreamed of visiting places like the Painted Desert, but will never get there either. I might request that my ashes get scattered someplace like that.

Besides, I've seen far too many bodies dug up after burial or found after a couple of weeks to want to be reduced to people jerky or a mass of stinking goo.

Those grave liners they poke you in these days don't always keep the water out. So, you get to slowly rot in basically a septic tank 6 feet down, and your casket will not remain watertight forever.

Cremation seems a lot nicer.

I mean look at many of the Egyptian tombs. Sealed up thousands of years ago and archeologists still often had to dig their way through sand clogged passages.

You can have your ashes sent to these guys (new window), and they'll turn it into a big-ass firework.

That's what I want. There will be lots of "Here, hold my beer and watch this."

Rik01: Actually, cremations, IMO, seem to make more sense.
Regular burials cram your slowly rotting corpse into the ground, in an over priced coffin, shot full of toxic fluids to slow down the process of decay. In most cemeteries, you can't have a tombstone, just a ground level brass plaque -- to make it cheaper and easier for the groundskeepers to mow the grass. There you'll remain until your relatives forget about you, or the owners decide to sell the place or just abandon it. Then you might get dug up and moved to another place by folks who don't actually give a shiat if they get all of you or not.

In some cases, you might just get paved over.

Burials get more expensive as land becomes harder to find for such usage around cities and the more folks that get buried take up even more land.

The last time I checked a cremation cost about $2500. A burial was $6000 and up.

A lot of folks take the cremains to the loved one's favorite place and dispose of them there, scattering the ashes where weather makes short work of them. A lot of places also do not allow such disposal for obvious reasons.

Some places have memorial gardens where you may spread the ashes.

Some businesses will allow you to place the remains in cement forms, such as those used for artificial reefs. One company, for a huge price, will shoot you into space -- but only a couple of ounces of you. Plus, you go into orbit and after a few years, return to Earth to burn up in the atmosphere.

Personally, if I could get shot into space, I'd prefer that. All of me and not just into orbit, but headed out into deep space. Heck, I dreamed nearly all of my life about getting into space, but Congress squashed that with massive budget cuts. Getting shot into space by a private company as a pile of ashes seems the only way now. But the cost is hideous.

I'll probably ask my survivors to dispose of my ashes somewhere nice -- and probably not here in Florida. I've dreamed of visiting places like the Painted Desert, but will never get there either. I might request that my ashes get scattered someplace like that.

Besides, I've seen far too many bodies dug up after burial or found after a couple of weeks to want to be reduced to people jerky or a mass of stinking goo.

Those grave liners they poke you in these days don't always keep the water out. So, you get to slowly rot in basically a septic tank 6 feet down, and your casket will not remain watertight forever.

Cremation seems a lot nicer.

I mean look at many of the Egyptian tombs. Sealed up thousands of years ago and archeologists still often had to dig their way through sand clogged passages.

When my uncle died, his wishes where to be cremated and scattered over the San Dimas in New Mexico. My grandpa wanted him in a family plot, along with a service.

Since the kids had no money, and my grandparents were paying for it, he got a service. But my grandma cremated him, half went in the ground, the other with the kids back to New Mexico. Not sure what they did with him. But one of the kids lost his mom three weeks later.

I shouldn't say kids, they are my cousins

I want to be cremated and placed in a Mason jar. Then I have asked my friends to build a trebuchet to launch my jar of ashes into a large body of water.

RexTalionis: You know, if I had to be cremated, I think I would opt for the pyre cremation, but with my legs fixed to the pyre. When a body burns, the heat causes tendons to contract and I want to be arranged in such a way that when my tendons contract, it'll look like I am sitting up. Want to freak out the attendees.

Do you have a newsletter I can subscribe to so I can get more information? This sounds most intruiging to someone of my... disposition.

Well, for me I initially wanted to go into a box with a wind-up crank on the side (closed coffin) and whoever spins the crank, the lid opens and I pop up! Financially, not realistic, so I'm going with cremation with the request that I'm mixed with vinegar and water and make a second trip through the womb.

Personally I want an open air burial. Put me on a little lattice out in the woods with some of my favorite toys up there with me and let the critters have at me. I have eaten more than my share of them while alive, it's only fair they get their turn.

"Golf courses and cemeteries, biggest wastes of land there is".