fuck thousands for a coffin. or hundreds for an urn. can i legally be burried in butcher paper?
can i donate my body to science and skip burrial all together?
i want my final action to be a big middle finger to the funeral industry picking on people in their weakest moments.
have your homies smoke your ashes in a blunt
Become entirely homeless and cut off all contacts and remove all identification so no one will be around to care when you die.
There are burial grounds that are basically natural parks, where you have to be buried in something biodegradable, like a shroud or pine needle basket, and no grave markers are allowed besides something like a tree or uncut rock. (Burial locations are recorded by gps.) I’d like to be buried in one of these places. Not sure what the cost is, though.
Science Vs. did a great episode on Human Composting a few years back. It’s really touching and highlights a fantastic way to convert your death into life.
Here is a link to the episode. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6reXXkhnvGxpSvnCz8wP2c
Is it a luxury option for the rich?
I think you can just not claim the body and the government will bury it in a pauper’s grave or something, but there might be some downsides to rejecting the body entirely.
Donate to science?
Don’t die. That’ll teach them.
That’s my plan. So far it’s working out!
I didn’t realize that there were any illegal ways to dispose of a body, as long as it’s in their will and sanitary
I suspect it’s different in different countries, but things like desecrating a corpse are often illegal. I expect if you carved it up and started throwing chunks around, that would be illegal even if it’s what the deceased wanted. Probably storing the body away and not telling the authorities of the death would also be illegal
There’s definitely some limitations. There was a bit of an issue in my state when a Mosque wanted to install a cemetery on their lot, but they were too close to the aquifer and weren’t allowed.
I mean, you could strap a bomb to your chest and go all “god is great.” Nobody is going to open casket that.
What is wrong with you
i will donate my body to a necrophilia foundation
Wth
I’ll give his family 15 bucks for the skull and dispose of the rest. I know a guy.
give me $20 and it stays in my will until someone else gives me $30
Pay a local taxidermist to stuff you so your kid/friend/partner can have you hang out in their living room. I told my mom I’m gonna have her stuffed and posed like a bear.
Thinking about this now it makes sense why my mom picked my sister as the executor.
I’m getting planted as a tree
Thank you so much for the info! I want to donate my body so I can be useful and help folks a final time. I have been getting awesome tattoos so my corpse looks dope as fuck
Native American pyre
“Sky burials” are probably cheaper.
Why Native American specifically? I’m thinking of Darth Vaders pyre and wondering if there’s something different that the native Americans did, and also, what nation specifically if you know. They didnt all follow the same rituals/ceremonies
Regardless of the final resting place after the funeral - DON’T EMBALM. They’ll pressure your family into embalming to ‘ensure the dead look their best on the day of the funeral’, but refrigeration does the exact same thing. You might think it’s more ‘dignified’, but just do a quick google at what the process entails. It’s ALL smoke and mirrors, and I’d rather have people at my funeral actually understand what my body is doing at that point - not the image of what a ‘body at rest’ looks like from Hollywood.
Open casket funerals are weird.
Sometimes you want to be sure the motherfucker is dead.
I think it was Frankie Boyle that said at Margaret Thatcher’s funeral, the 21-gun salute was pointed into the grave…
the motherfucker
He prefers “Dad”.
My mum doesn’t like being called Fatherfucker
At least it’s better than motherfuckee?
