I’d like to become a tree.
Green burial. No preservatives, no permanent structures, just natural decay and completing the circle of life. Don’t pickle me for a funeral just get me in the ground asap.
Whatever my wife feels like, assuming she’s the one to survive me. I don’t hold any religious beliefs demanding me to do something specific with my body, so I’ll leave it to her to decide.
Should she be passing before me, I’d just want to be cremated and scattered somewhere in the most cost efficient way to not affect anyone’s finances.
I’ve asked my wife for a closed coffin just because I think the open ones are weird as f-. Other then that I’m going to be dead so it won’t matter.
Very honestly, since I was a child I wanted to be burned to a point where the flesh is gone but the bones are still intact and have the bones buried.
I think it is even possible to do that in Austria but I live in Germany and obviously no one is going to spend time, money, and energy on these shenanigans once I am dead. But if I could selfishly wish for a way, this would be it. There are reasons for why I don’t want to be buried and why I don’t want to be cremated and this would feel… The rightest.
Resurrected or uploaded.
If it is possible for the mind to survive the death of the body, I also think uploading would be fine. It’s a risk to be sure, but not having a body would actually address a lot of my current disappointments.
If resurrection is possible, I’d like to think the death could be prevented. But, I’ll take it if uploading is not available and death of the body is still inevitable.
Any parts that can be used to improve a human life should be used that way. Then any parts that can be used to improve animal/plant life should be used that way. Then the rest should be disposed of in the manner that consumes the fewest resources.
But, I’ll be gone; you guys can do whatever with it; I won’t care.
I want to be cremated. I want my wife to keep the ashes for as long as she wants and then eventually spread them so my atoms can return to the earth
Used as a prop for a Halloween haunted house.
The matter that makes up my cells has been going through the cycle of life for god knows how long. All I know is I’ll be pissed if that cycle is cut off to isolate that matter in a metal box in the ground.
Something cheap for my family.
My wish has also been to become a tree actually.
Its not legal where i live but i prefer if my body was buried as is without coffin in a forest so flora and fungi can feast on my nutrients.
Vengeful spirit, for sure.
If I can have anything, I want to explode into a bunch of butterflies.
If only real options are available, I am hoping composting is legal by then. Just be turned back into dirt and plants.
If you want to be a tree, go cremation. Trees get their carbon from the air not the soil.
Thats just carbon though. Surely the nutrients in the ground are equally important.
I thought cremains would be worse for the tree.
They are. I researched it because my mother wanted to grow a lemon tree from her cremains. Human ashes are too acidic for most plants to grow in unless you mix them with soil or compost. Which doesn’t seem at all respectful.
I believe they are mostly not even ashes, just ground up bone fragments
Dump my ashes into Mariana’s Trench. That way I can contribute to the local ecology…somehow.
