Dump my ashes into Mariana’s Trench. That way I can contribute to the local ecology…somehow.

If you want to be a tree, go cremation. Trees get their carbon from the air not the soil.

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I don’t personally care. Burials and other ceremonies are for the living. I’d prefer something that doesn’t harm our environment and to donate as many organs as possible, but that’s pretty much it.

I like what you said about being a tree. I may steal that.

I don’t have kids. I plan to leave my assets to a charity. Probably something for animals but I haven’t really planned that far ahead yet.

Bury me “buns-up” in a sidewalk downtown so someone has a place to park their bicycle.

I would like to remain dead

I’ve organised to have my body donated to a medical school for dissection. It was quite complicated, lots of forms to be filled in and witnessed. My executor has to phone the university when I die & they send a van to collect me. They won’t accept my body if I’ve died of something communicable, or it was eg some accident that left me too mangled. When they’re done with me I’ll be cremated and my name goes up on a plaque in a special garden.

Fuck it, I wanna be cryogenically frozen, if I can have the chance of living hundreds of years in the future, no matter how slim, I’d rather be prepared.

I would like someone to rent a tree spade, one if those trucks that can pick up a nature tree with us for ball, pick up a nice tree, wrap me in linen, throw me in the hole, and drop the trees back into the hole on top of me.

I’m an organ donor, but I suspect my organs won’t be worth much by the time I’m done with them.

I want my nutrients returned to the earth.

That means that green burial, human composting, burial at sea, and aquamation are all options.

I absolutely do not want cremation. It’s an energy intensive process that also renders the deceased’s accumulated nutrients unavailable to other organisms.

This thread also reminds me that I need to revoke the organ donor status from my driver’s license. As much as I like / appreciate the concept, a viable organ donation requires dying in a hospital. I would prefer to pass outdoors in a natural setting that I feel connected to or, at worst, in my own home.

Thrown in a ditch

I want my body donated to a body farm.

Prop me up beside the jukebox.

Scatter my remains across Disney World, although I don’t want to be cremated.