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re: Are burials wasteful?
Posted on 6/15/15 at 6:08 pm to NewIberiaHaircut
Posted on 6/15/15 at 6:08 pm to NewIberiaHaircut
Cremation is a lot less stress than the open casket.
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Posted on 6/15/15 at 6:13 pm to PowerTool
Freeze me in Antarctica and wake me up when the science is there.
Posted on 6/15/15 at 6:13 pm to Broke
I don't care what my folks decide to do with my corpse when I'm dead. Stuff me, use me as compost, donate me to medical science, donate me to a gay necrophiliac. It won't matter because I'll be dead. 
Posted on 6/15/15 at 6:14 pm to mattz1122
I'd like to be tied to a cinder block and thrown in the river. Pour a beer out for me.
My only request is that I be brought up occasionally in conversation.
My only request is that I be brought up occasionally in conversation.
Posted on 6/15/15 at 6:18 pm to Broke
From dust you are and dust you will return...speeds up the process by hundreds of years.
Posted on 6/15/15 at 6:20 pm to Sandy_Ash
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um, which church makes money on burial funerals?
Every preacher I have ever known makes money off doing a funeral, which is classless as can be and unscriptural.
Posted on 6/15/15 at 6:36 pm to mattz1122
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I don't care what my folks decide to do with my corpse when I'm dead. Stuff me, use me as compost, donate me to medical science, donate me to a gay necrophiliac. It won't matter because I'll be dead.
What about becoming a piece of art?
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Posted on 6/15/15 at 6:36 pm to Broke
I would be cremated if you could legally do it on an old fashioned funeral pyre in front of my family.
Watch a video on modern cremations, it's a crapshoot that you're even getting the ashes of your loved one. Best case scenario if the cremator is as careful and respectful as can be you're probably getting 60% your loved one, 25% the guy getting cremated in the other chamber, and the rest a mix of random people that didn't get swept up yet and the ashes of whatever wood/cardboard they shoved you in to roast you.
Watch a video on modern cremations, it's a crapshoot that you're even getting the ashes of your loved one. Best case scenario if the cremator is as careful and respectful as can be you're probably getting 60% your loved one, 25% the guy getting cremated in the other chamber, and the rest a mix of random people that didn't get swept up yet and the ashes of whatever wood/cardboard they shoved you in to roast you.
Posted on 6/15/15 at 6:50 pm to lsunurse
Their playoff hopes were cremated last season after Carson Palmer went down.
This post was edited on 6/15/15 at 6:52 pm
Posted on 6/15/15 at 6:55 pm to BowlJackson
An old school Indian cremation would be pretty cool, but it seems like it would stink like all hell.
I don't want my families last memory of me to be the smell of burning hair
Is there any reason people aren't typically buried without a casket? I'd rather just get dropped in the hole and turned into worm food.
I don't want my families last memory of me to be the smell of burning hair
Is there any reason people aren't typically buried without a casket? I'd rather just get dropped in the hole and turned into worm food.
Posted on 6/15/15 at 6:59 pm to lsunurse
o0o0o0o I even played the alto sax for a spell in jr. high. Just sad I wouldn't be alive to see such a marvelous display of the human nervous system.
Posted on 6/15/15 at 7:01 pm to mattz1122
I went to that Body Works exhibit when it was here in PHX. Very fascinating. I wanna say they even had forms there available to fill out if you wanted to donate your body 
Posted on 6/15/15 at 7:24 pm to biglego
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The airtight coffins intrigue me. I can't imagine what a body is like laying in one of those. Must be ghastly.
I've been involved in planning a number of family funerals over the years. It's always intrigued me when selecting a casket, the funeral director will tell you it has a 75 year warranty. How would you know if you needed to make a claim ?
Posted on 6/15/15 at 7:28 pm to lsunurse
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I went to that Body Works exhibit when it was here in PHX. Very fascinating. I wanna say they even had forms there available to fill out if you wanted to donate your body
Have seen this as well. I found it fascinating as well. I would think someone in the medical field could use it in their field.
Posted on 6/15/15 at 7:30 pm to Broke
I don't think burials are wasteful, as it actually takes a hell of a lot of energy to cremate a body and almost none to bury someone.
I say that if it gives a family comfort to have a place to periodically go to remember their loved one, then I have no problem at all with it.
I say that if it gives a family comfort to have a place to periodically go to remember their loved one, then I have no problem at all with it.
Posted on 6/15/15 at 7:37 pm to Negative Nomad
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I'm all for a natural biological burial. Dig a hole, put me in it. No casket nessesary. Same as the casket method really. Eventually it will deteriorate anyway.
In Louisiana you cannot do this. A concrete or steel vault is required. Maybe no casket, I'm not sure but you still are inside a vault.
This post was edited on 6/15/15 at 7:39 pm
Posted on 6/15/15 at 7:40 pm to Broke
The amount people pay for burials and funerals is wasteful. Not the burials themselves IMO.
Posted on 6/15/15 at 7:51 pm to Shamalamadingdong
Why not?
Posted on 6/15/15 at 7:52 pm to Broke
Im all for funerals, but the modern and past ideas of tombs and huge graves is antiquated. There is not a lack of land but there may be one day and as long as we still see the service of honoring the deceased with respect I have no problem with cremation or what have you.
I personally want a pine box burial next to a tree or something. Just something to insure ill return to the world that made me.
I personally want a pine box burial next to a tree or something. Just something to insure ill return to the world that made me.
Posted on 6/15/15 at 8:26 pm to Broke
My Grandmothers funeral was this weekend. She donated her body to science and will have her remains returned after cremation. I was actually able to bring my children to what turned out to be one of the best and most hilarious and uplifting events of my life without scaring the little ones with seeing their dead Grandmaw.
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