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When you or someone passes away, do you think you should chose what to do with the remains or go on their wishes? Cremation, burial, mausoleum?

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Cremation keeps the spirit from becoming too attached to the mortal body. Zombiefication would drop by 90%.

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I would follow their wishes, unless it was creamation..i could never burn anyone up..

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Minnie wrote: I would follow their wishes, unless it was creamation..i could never burn anyone up..

once the spirit has left the body, the body is no more than a sloughed off snake skin.

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Remains should be dealt with according to the wishes of the person who died when possible. Personally, cremation I guess. I'm obviously not going to need my body after I'm dead, so I rally don't care what happens to it. I just don't want large amounts of money spent on a fancy casket and burial plot for my lifeless corpse. I want my body to return to the earth in the cheapest and quickest way possible, without being disrespectful or unsanitary.

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manadren wrote: Remains should be dealt with according to the wishes of the person who died when possible. Personally, cremation I guess. I'm obviously not going to need my body after I'm dead, so I rally don't care what happens to it. I just don't want large amounts of money spent on a fancy casket and burial plot for my lifeless corpse. I want my body to return to the earth in the cheapest and quickest way possible, without being disrespectful or unsanitary.

cremation...dump the corpse on a bundle of faggots moist with gasoline and light them.

A faggot is bundle of wood you sick people!

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William Wallace wrote: cremation...dump the corpse on a bundle of faggots moist with gasoline and light them.

A faggot is bundle of wood you sick people!

cigarettes are the first things that come to my mind when I see/hear the phrase faggots or fags. Those would not help much very much when burning a body.

my personal desire for burial is a simple wooden casket straight out of the 19th century just large enough to hold my body and no bigger.

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We cant keep burying people or we will run out of space.
But if im buried then I want to have a knife just in case I wake up.

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We cant keep burying people or we will run out of space.

Do you know how long we've been burying people after they die???
I think we should be okay for awhile. Though I think that's just one more reason cremation is the way to go.

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I say you might as well do what they asked when they were alive.

I never thought of that, but yeah, soon we'll run out of space to burry people. Oh well, decomposition I guess... and decomposition means fosil fuels.

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You can have your loved one's ashes turned into a diamond y'know.

That would kick arse.

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Actually, ashes are one of few substances that cannot be changed form - any other substance you can burn, crush etc, but once turned to ashes, there's nothing you can do. But I think if enough experimentation is done, it could be used to produce energy somehow.... The night of the living dead. *power goes on*

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I never thought of that, but yeah, soon we'll run out of space to burry people.

Are you guys serious? I can't tell. Like I said, I think we'll probably be okay for awhile. If we can find room to dump our millions of pounds of garbage everyday, I think we can find places to bury a few bodies.

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We wont run out for a while but we will because of all the houses being built and rubbish places and graveyards and all sorts. We should just staple some peoples ashes to a rocket everytime it goes up. (I know stapling isnt the most effective way of getting something onto a rocket but you know what I mean)

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How would YOU like to be disposed of after you die?


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shenbaw wrote: Are you guys serious? I can't tell. Like I said, I think we'll probably be okay for awhile. If we can find room to dump our millions of pounds of garbage everyday, I think we can find places to bury a few bodies.

Ok, so there's lot of space on the earth, but we're talking about grave yards. We don't really want grave yards to get insanely huge and end up having to build houses over dead bodies, know what I'm say'n yo?

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We don't really want grave yards to get insanely huge and end up having to build houses over dead bodies, know what I'm say'n yo?

Sure, you're advocating cremation.

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Yes and no. Basically we can do what they ask to be done as a respect, but at a certain point cremation will probably be more ideal if they actually do run out of space. I know where I live it won't be a problem because the only people that die are the ones that are sick or too old. There's no murders.

I suppose if we do run out of space, they can figure something out. Make it more expensive, dig deeper (make it like a mine shaft setup with different levels) etc...

Some people even ask, or allow that their bodies be use in scientific study. Honestly I would not mind that if I die, my body means nothing once I'm dead, and I might as well be of good use one last time.

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I would do everything I could to insure that someone be buried according to his or her wishes. My personal beliefs would not (or hopefully wouldn’t) get in the way of that.

Cremation isn’t bad IMO. If I were mortal, that’s how I would like to be disposed of.

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Doesn't matter to me, fighting over a body seems selfishly material to me, it is nothing more than a vessel, a casing.

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What's crazy is that most caskets are probably worth more then my house. Well important people anyway, probably.

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shenbaw wrote: Are you guys serious? I can't tell. Like I said, I think we'll probably be okay for awhile. If we can find room to dump our millions of pounds of garbage everyday, I think we can find places to bury a few bodies.

Burying bodies it's like burying garbage. No one really cares where their garbage goes, as long as they don't have to deal with it. But people like to be buried in their in certain places [the city they lived in, or grew up in, near loved ones, etc.]. When you start taking that into consideration, simply finding another place to bury people becomes a lot more complicated. Cemetaries running out of space is a serious problem in some areas, forcing government officials to look at things like cremation and vertical burials.

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It would be strange being buried standing up. Not that it would make much differance if you were dead. A vertical coffin would want to be a pretty tight fit so you dont fall forward and make noise and frighten everybody.

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Cicero wrote: A vertical coffin would want to be a pretty tight fit so you dont fall forward and make noise and frighten everybody.

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why don't we just eat our dead, solving both problems of finding land for cattle rearing and for the dead.
i suppose i better start fatten up my grandma.

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