View Full Version : Cremated, Buried, or Other?
JasonLuck
03-13-2013, 04:13 PM
When you die, how would you like your body to be processed?
I want to be buried so I can come back to life in a Zombie Apocalypse :)
And just something interesting:
Has anyone heard of Sky Burial? They do it in Tibet, where they leave your body out in the open to let the birds eat it.
neverending
03-13-2013, 04:15 PM
I'm a medical donor, so might as well just burn up the remains.
MichaelMyers
03-13-2013, 04:23 PM
How do you kill someone who's already dead?
bamahorrorfan87
03-13-2013, 09:43 PM
buried..............
Im on the donor list ...although ill doubt theyll want my liver.
JamesOpelucid
03-14-2013, 04:29 AM
I think drowning is the worst.
Anthropophagus
03-14-2013, 10:45 AM
They can hack me up and eat me for all i`m concerned.:D
Sculpt
03-14-2013, 12:56 PM
Im on the donor list ...although ill doubt theyll want my liver.
May I LOL at that? Thanks for the chuckle on that! But seriously, don't let that poison damage you. I might need your liver. (JK)
Sculpt
03-14-2013, 12:58 PM
How do you kill someone who's already dead?
There's quite a list of movies that give several suggestions. :)
Sculpt
03-14-2013, 02:06 PM
When you die, how would you like your body to be processed?
I want to be buried so I can come back to life in a Zombie Apocalypse :)
And just something interesting:
Has anyone heard of Sky Burial? They do it in Tibet, where they leave your body out in the open to let the birds eat it.
On the one hand, it seems wasteful to fill land surface with graveyards, when and if there is a lack of food, and lack of land to plant food, for hungry people. Plus I don't come from a family that visits graves. But I fully respect those who have died, and the living who want to visit them in graveyards, and want to be buried.
On my other hand, I sometimes wonder if any sort of preservation of my body, or DNA, would be useful to any being in bringing me back to life. But that's a passing thought. Spirit is immortal, flesh is not.
The Tibetan Sky Burial (body eaten by birds) is interesting. What's the significance of that? Some say cremation contributes to global warming. But, so does lighting a candle; so I'm sure that's not the reason they do it.
If you have faith in God, God created humankind, including DNA and life itself. Prior DNA wasn't needed. And God breathed life-spirit into humankind. If you believe God saves and promises to resurrect, then is almighty God unable to keep His promise to someone who dies in a fire? Rather the Bible talks about spirit being distinct from, and inhabiting, the body. Interestingly, the Bible doesn't read cremation is a sin. It does mention burial mostly, and also cremation. Whatever you believe, these are words of interest in the subject:
James 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also
2 Corinthians 5:4 These tents we now live in are like a heavy burden, and we groan. But we don’t do this just because we want to leave these bodies that will die. It is because we want to change them for bodies that will never die. 5 God is the one who makes all of this possible. He has given us his Spirit to make us certain that he will do it.
1 Corinthians 15:42 That’s how it will be when our bodies are raised to life. These bodies will die, but the bodies that are raised will live forever. 43 These ugly and weak bodies will become beautiful and strong. 44 As surely as there are physical bodies, there are spiritual bodies. And our physical bodies will be changed into spiritual bodies.
realdealblues
03-15-2013, 04:39 AM
I'm going to be cremated.
From the logical point of view: I don't see the point in wasting land. In 50 years usually the family members who knew you will have moved on and won't be visiting you anyway. By the time I die no one will remember my grandparents (who are all dead), let alone care enough to go visit their graves.
From my spiritual point of view: I want as much of my soul residue or energy released from my body as can be, and only cremation can guarantee that. Flesh suit, nothing more. Release me back into the Aether as fast as possible...
Soul Locust
03-15-2013, 05:13 AM
I wanna be turned into chili and have all my enemies invited out to celebrate my death with a big ole bowl.
Kinda my last "eat me".
ImmortalSlasher
03-15-2013, 09:33 AM
I wanted to be cremated. But I've been looking into the cremation process. I'm not sure anymore. Dead or not, having my remains put through a blender doesn't excite me.
MichaelMyers
03-15-2013, 09:36 AM
From my spiritual point of view: I want as much of my soul residue or energy released from my body as can be, and only cremation can guarantee that.
How in your view does this process work?
Straker
03-16-2013, 07:11 AM
Cryogenics all the way... Unless I get married then I'm going to pull a Homer Simpson and be stuffed and put on the couch as a constant reminder to my wife of our marital vows.
Failing that, medical donor.
Sculpt
03-16-2013, 11:12 AM
Cryogenics all the way... Unless I get married then I'm going to pull a Homer Simpson and be stuffed and put on the couch as a constant reminder to my wife of our marital vows.
Failing that, medical donor.
LOL! I wonder how many cryogenics companies have gone out of business? I think you can be a medical donor and still get stuffed. They don't want your skin.
Kandarian Demon
03-17-2013, 05:53 PM
It probably sounds like a joke, but if it was an option I'd actually like to be mummified. I don't want to be buried and I don't want to get cremated either... although I know that in reality I probably won't care when the day comes :p But I don't like the thought of either of those options.
Fulg HoarAR
03-17-2013, 09:19 PM
probably go with cremated, with nearly 7 billion and counting its just common courtesy at this point, UNLESS they've found a way for the common person to get a space burial, the idea of floating about the universe eternally is kind of amusing, plus who knows who you'd come across, a few million years of floating about, then you happen upon a civilization who has re-animation down pat.
Kandarian Demon
03-23-2013, 01:09 PM
probably go with cremated, with nearly 7 billion and counting its just common courtesy at this point, UNLESS they've found a way for the common person to get a space burial, the idea of floating about the universe eternally is kind of amusing, plus who knows who you'd come across, a few million years of floating about, then you happen upon a civilization who has re-animation down pat.
... and it could potentially start a whole new horror trend: zombies from space! :D
Shemonsterdevil
03-24-2013, 02:55 PM
I want to be mutilated and put on display for body works or bodies ... one of those cool medical exhibits. ... unless someone like... could use the organs for a practical purpose, like living.
The Ugly Duchess
03-24-2013, 03:01 PM
I definitely want cremation! It is already set up that way!
ImmortalSlasher
03-25-2013, 10:49 PM
It probably sounds like a joke, but if it was an option I'd actually like to be mummified. I don't want to be buried and I don't want to get cremated either... although I know that in reality I probably won't care when the day comes :p But I don't like the thought of either of those options.
Isn't current embalming like mummification? I need to look into it more. But they do a lot of stuff to present a body for viewing.
probably go with cremated, with nearly 7 billion and counting its just common courtesy at this point, UNLESS they've found a way for the common person to get a space burial, the idea of floating about the universe eternally is kind of amusing, plus who knows who you'd come across, a few million years of floating about, then you happen upon a civilization who has re-animation down pat.
That's almost the Jason X story.