Being flushed when you die

[zahc]

HCl is weak stuff. Here in the semiconductor labs, they have vats of HF, which instantly soaks into your body and dissolves your bones. It's so hardcore, it dissolves glass containers. They have to keep it in  special lexanish containers.

[AJ Dual]

Either that, or it disrupts the calcium channel function of your muscles and your heart stops.

Neat stuff. 

[280plus]

Oh bury me not,
Down the friggin' drain... 

[Josh Aston]

I couldn't be the person with the job of doing this.  I'd never look at a toilet the same way again.

[Scout26]

I'm sure that I'd plug up the works and cause a flood.   

[BridgeRunner]

Nasty.  There's gotta be some middle of the road approach somewhere between ashes/sludge and embalming/concrete vault/lingering on in dusty psuedo-decay for generations. 

I'll take the coyotes myself.  Or buzzards.  Always have liked birds.

Failing that, bugs. 

One major sadness in my conversion to Christianity is I'm barred from the Jewish cemetery, where they still do it more or less the old fashioned way--pine box, no vaults.  And no walking away either.  Your friends and family fill in your grave.  That'd be fine by me. 

I don't like the instant-quick-gone approach.  Made my grandfather's death a bit harder to cope with.  Ashes or sludge, both are a little too quick with the clean-up and gone thing.

[lupinus]

and the soup of the evening is...

[Josh Aston]

and the soup of the evening is...

Did you hear that?

That was the sound of me throwing up in my mouth.

[zahc]

One major sadness in my conversion to Christianity is I'm barred from the Jewish cemetery

Do you mean your new Christianity doesn't allow you to go to jewish cemeterys, or the Jews won't let you in now that you aren't Jewish? I ask because my wifey's coworker is Jewish and she was invited to funeral, and told me about the plain box bit. We're quite Christian.

[BridgeRunner]

Do you mean your new Christianity doesn't allow you to go to jewish cemeterys, or the Jews won't let you in now that you aren't Jewish? I ask because my wifey's coworker is Jewish and she was invited to funeral, and told me about the plain box bit. We're quite Christian.

I mean barred from burial, not from entry.

[Dntsycnt]

I still say I want to be pressed into a diamond and fitted on a ring and pawned.

Then I shall haunt whoever wears me, and make them feel uncomfortable and watched while in the bathroom for all of eternity!  Bwahahahaha!

[BridgeRunner]

I still say I want to be pressed into a diamond and fitted on a ring and pawned.

Then I shall haunt whoever wears me, and make them feel uncomfortable and watched while in the bathroom for all of eternity!  Bwahahahaha!

Dude, my husband's creepy uncle wanted to get that done with his mom's ashes so he could give "her" to his girlfriend as an engagement ring.  Can you think of anything creepier than giving some chick your MOM mounted in an engagement ring?

[Josh Aston]

I still say I want to be pressed into a diamond and fitted on a ring and pawned.

Then I shall haunt whoever wears me, and make them feel uncomfortable and watched while in the bathroom for all of eternity!  Bwahahahaha!

Dude, my husband's creepy uncle wanted to get that done with his mom's ashes so he could give "her" to his girlfriend as an engagement ring.  Can you think of anything creepier than giving some chick your MOM mounted in an engagement ring?

That's just sick.  What are you going to do on your wedding night?  Make your bride take the ring off?  Or bring MOM to bed with you? 

[S. Williamson]

What's so bad about cremation?  I'm going straight into the burner, no embalming or anything.

[zahc]

Think of the CO2 released by embalming!

[lupinus]

BW-

My grandfather had a pinky ring that his father had made when his wife (grandpas mom) passed.  Basically it was great-grandmas engagement ring and both wedding bands melted down, the center stone was the diamond from the engagement ring, and two accent stones that were previously in the wedding bands.

The center stone is going into my future wifes engagement ring, I'm debating the accent stones.  But grandpa was cremated so I've always toyed with the idea of pressing a few of his ashes and wearing grandpa around.

"Kiss the grandpa"   

[BridgeRunner]

My grandfather had a pinky ring that his father had made when his wife (grandpas mom) passed.  Basically it was great-grandmas engagement ring and both wedding bands melted down, the center stone was the diamond from the engagement ring, and two accent stones that were previously in the wedding bands.

See, that's cool.  My own engagement ring (which functions as a wedding ring because my wedding ring doesn't fit me well) has a stone that belonged to the same lady whose ashes are up for diamond-ification.  It's actually been in the family since the 1890's.  And that's cool.  Aside from the dire consequences if I lose the thing.

But I am just creeped out by the idea of gifting one's new spouse with the (admittedly very attenuated) remains of a dead relative.

[Dntsycnt]

"Here you go...that diamond is actually my mother.  Maybe...someday...YOU could be a diamond.  Wouldn't that be nice?"

[Harold Tuttle]

one would wonder what the local sanitation engineers would think of that output hitting their plant

there is a better solution:


"Damn, your mother is a tough old bird"
"Shut up, and pass me a leg"

[Iain]

Wrap me in a bit of cloth and put me straight into the ground, no coffin. Some decades later, when they want to use that spot again, if there is anything left they can put the bones in an ossuary. Bring back the middle ages.

Burial I can deal with, cremation I can deal with. Both have long histories of being a means of corpse disposal. Dissolving bodies in chemicals has a history as means of furtive corpse disposal, and that makes it weird, for the time being anyway.

[wmenorr67]

What about double decker graves.

My grandparents were buried that way.

Had an uncle say the first one to go should be buried face up and the second buried face down.

[Dntsycnt]

I was thinking when I got to be dieing age (haha, like I'll ever die) I'd just build my own coffin.  Make sure it fits well, has a nice look to it that I think fits my own personality, and that way no one has to in their grieving get screwed over by the coffin salesman.  Maybe go ahead and have my headstone made, too.

I wonder what the legality of this is.  I'd really like to do it.

[Sindawe]

and the soup of the evening is...

That I Grok in fullness.

I'm with Ian.  Wrap the empty vessel in a linen shroud and plant it under some fruit or nut tree.  Let the accumulated nutrients feed the still living.

That, or prop it up by some remote trail where the sun bleached bones can startle passing hikers and frighten small children.

[K Frame]

Hum...

Is that kind of burial carbon neutral enough?

[Harold Tuttle]

I like the Buddhist monk slice'em up and feed the vultures approach

DARI COUNTY, CHINA - NOVEMBER 5: A burial master shows his knife after a celestial burial ceremony at the Chalang Temple on November 5, 2007 in Dari County of Guoluo Prefecture, Qinghai Province, northwest China. Celestial burial is a traditional funeral of Tibetan people, which began in the 7th century. When the ceremony is held, aromatic plants are burnt for smoke to guide the soul to reach the celestial burial ground. The body of the dead, placed in a sitting stance, is sliced by a celestial burial master, then offered to vultures, which are called "holy eagles". Tibetans believe the vulture can help the dead gain merits and virtues. A burial master can earn about 100 yuan (approximately USD 13.5) for handling every burial.