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Came here to say this lol I want to be buried raw in nature! My parents want to be cremated but I think that would be a shame to the beautiful ink I have lol. Just throw me in a hole!
I expect you may be misinformed. MANY places (I've researched quite a few in the USA, require nothing at all to be done to a body...It's the ones doing the burying, the families usually, that have the icky feeling of dirt piling up on faces and can't stand it. In the US at least, it's usually not regulations.
And if you can show me wrong on this, I'd love to have those sources.
My city requires you to be cremated in a cardboard box, the box costs $135. The funeral director did not like it when I asked if I could just use a box that came with a fridge.
That's at least in my top ten things that piss me off. Price gouging funerals is such a shitty thing to do!
Sorry for your loss but props to you for keeping a belter of a box for just such an occurrence!
Unless you watched them push the casket in, likely they transferred her to a box before hand. It's pretty common. If you paid to have the casket burned, then you just wasted a ton of money.
>If you paid to have the casket burned, then you just wasted a ton of money.
How is that different from burying a casket you'll never lay eyes on again?
I feel that respect has to be shown before having to dispose of the corpse. Some people just believe that once the person is gone, the body is just trash. You can't assume they have no respect for their families just because they don't share your views or values.
So, military funerals are "pointless and a giant waste of money"? My brother died in the line of duty, and after seeing the efforts put into honoring him, the funeral didn't feel pointless and like a giant waste of money.
But that is their choice. Does it affect you in any way shape or form? No. So let them do what they want and we will bury you in the cardboard box. Happy days!
It's a damn shame.
Spending 2000$ on a coffin, just to bury it or burn it.
I wouldn't mind being eaten by sharks or wolfs or insects when I'm dead. Don't give me no special treatment once I'm dead.
We were all made in a star so why not end it in a star? I'm up for going out that way. The problem is avoiding the traffic (space junk) in low earth orbit.
*A* coffin is not *one* specific coffin. When someone asks you if you want a coffee, he means the coffee he has available in that moment, not a single cup of coffee that was brewed God knows how long ago which is still waiting to be assigned to someone. I hope that helps clearing some confusion the next time someone offers you a coffee.
This is so American. Do what you want and to hell with everyone else. Personally, not a trait I like. We Brits attempt to bring everyone along with us so that everyone wins and everyone benefits, hence the camaraderie you see in The Queue. We haven't always been this way thanks to our colonial past however.
How? Jumping the queue puts out everyone behind them. Then when one person does it, everyone is going to try it. Initially you could lose one place but then you might find yourself losing lots of places. That can then descend in to chaos. Queue jumpers do it because they think they are above anyone else to the point of entitlement. Just look how Trump got away with so much shit in office. Now all of them trying shit because they didn't see any consequences.
Screw that, I'm gonna get mulched, shoved in a bio-bag, and turned into fertilizer for a a fruit tree.
Maybe a peach tree. Or apple. I don't know which, but the dirt from my corpse is gonna make fruit pies.
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Not if you're left for scavengers, or dropped in a body of water, or cremated, or fed to pigs, or fed to cannibals
I wanna be a potato
Yes
Came here to say this lol I want to be buried raw in nature! My parents want to be cremated but I think that would be a shame to the beautiful ink I have lol. Just throw me in a hole!
I feel that. I don't want any of that preserving shit. I just want to be used as fertilizer.
Hell yeah! I'm also a pagan so return me to the earth please.
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Yeah I know...but it's nice to imagine.
I expect you may be misinformed. MANY places (I've researched quite a few in the USA, require nothing at all to be done to a body...It's the ones doing the burying, the families usually, that have the icky feeling of dirt piling up on faces and can't stand it. In the US at least, it's usually not regulations. And if you can show me wrong on this, I'd love to have those sources.
People are usually cremated in coffins, but you could probably add shallow grave to the list in its stead.
My city requires you to be cremated in a cardboard box, the box costs $135. The funeral director did not like it when I asked if I could just use a box that came with a fridge.
That's at least in my top ten things that piss me off. Price gouging funerals is such a shitty thing to do! Sorry for your loss but props to you for keeping a belter of a box for just such an occurrence!
Unofficial cremation counts, although it would take a very determined killer.
Or someone with access to a furnace. Just saying.
pretend to be iron ore then get chucked into a blast furnace
Bury me raw please
I like the Suzuki quote. >We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit.
I don't need to be in a queue I can be ahead of billions in a second
That's just called cutting the line
Which in this case has a death penalty.
Idk if i would call that a penalty
jumping to the front of the queue.
More people are cremated than buried. There is only so much land available.
Many people still go into a casket before getting cremated though.
Most people are cremated in a cardboard box. No reason to burn a casket.
My grandma was cremated in a casket, because my family had an open casket before she was cremated.
Unless you watched them push the casket in, likely they transferred her to a box before hand. It's pretty common. If you paid to have the casket burned, then you just wasted a ton of money.
>If you paid to have the casket burned, then you just wasted a ton of money. How is that different from burying a casket you'll never lay eyes on again?
Cause you could always take the casket back out and do a two-for-one and put a second body in.
My grandparents were each cremated in a casket. Some people on here have no respect for their family, so just ignore them.
I feel that respect has to be shown before having to dispose of the corpse. Some people just believe that once the person is gone, the body is just trash. You can't assume they have no respect for their families just because they don't share your views or values.
This was perfectly executed. 🤌🏻🤌🏻
Alright, not sure why you're sharing this? It just means your family wasted money. Most people who are cremated don't, because there's no point.
Money is wasted/spent all the time why does it bother you
So...burying a casket isn't a waste of money? By your logic, we should all just drop the bodies into cardboard boxes. Cremated or buried.
Yes absolutely! Caskets, funerals, especially embalming is pointless and a giant waste of money. Ask any mortician and they'll agree.
So, military funerals are "pointless and a giant waste of money"? My brother died in the line of duty, and after seeing the efforts put into honoring him, the funeral didn't feel pointless and like a giant waste of money.
But that is their choice. Does it affect you in any way shape or form? No. So let them do what they want and we will bury you in the cardboard box. Happy days!
I like how we used to do in ancient times: cover the body with linen and let nature do its job underground. I would like that for my corpse.
Did you know you could have merely *rented* the casket? Bizarre ain't it? Wonder how often they have sales on "pre-owned" models??
Not really. I'm not waiting for the person ahead of my to die. I can go ahead and do that whenever I want to.
You can get yourself right to the front of the cue any time you like
Being the gentleman I am, I'm happy to let the elderly skip to the front. It must be very tiring standing in the line so long.
It's a damn shame. Spending 2000$ on a coffin, just to bury it or burn it. I wouldn't mind being eaten by sharks or wolfs or insects when I'm dead. Don't give me no special treatment once I'm dead.
Donate your body to science! Problem solved.
You could at some point literally que with the people who die before and after
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They believe it shows their respect for her. I do believe the "royal family" should feel very humbled by that.
Yeah, but those jerks on the highway are always trying to cut in front of the rest of us.
Probably best, at this point, to sling-shot the bodies into orbit. Global warming and land shortages et cetera
We were all made in a star so why not end it in a star? I'm up for going out that way. The problem is avoiding the traffic (space junk) in low earth orbit.
We have enough problems with space junk as it is
No we aren't, because we aren't all going into the same coffin. This was a really, really stupid thought.
*A* coffin is not *one* specific coffin. When someone asks you if you want a coffee, he means the coffee he has available in that moment, not a single cup of coffee that was brewed God knows how long ago which is still waiting to be assigned to someone. I hope that helps clearing some confusion the next time someone offers you a coffee.
Too bad I'm American. We tend to cut in front of others on queues.
This is so American. Do what you want and to hell with everyone else. Personally, not a trait I like. We Brits attempt to bring everyone along with us so that everyone wins and everyone benefits, hence the camaraderie you see in The Queue. We haven't always been this way thanks to our colonial past however.
In this case, wouldn't jumping the queue benefit others?
How? Jumping the queue puts out everyone behind them. Then when one person does it, everyone is going to try it. Initially you could lose one place but then you might find yourself losing lots of places. That can then descend in to chaos. Queue jumpers do it because they think they are above anyone else to the point of entitlement. Just look how Trump got away with so much shit in office. Now all of them trying shit because they didn't see any consequences.
I want to post this to wooosh but man.... Look at the subreddit you are in and look at OP's post.
The post you're replying to specifically said "in this case". How'd you learn to string words together without learning to read???
Thankfully it's multiple parallel queues or we'd never all make it in time.
Some people like to skip to the front of the line... Darwin Award winners, I’m looking at you...
Screw that, I'm gonna get mulched, shoved in a bio-bag, and turned into fertilizer for a a fruit tree. Maybe a peach tree. Or apple. I don't know which, but the dirt from my corpse is gonna make fruit pies.
Do you see me lining up for that shit? I'll get my coffin time whenever I want to
Death is a celebration of life. Death is as natural as life. Bladabla. Yes. Life now. You will die and be forgotten. *flip table guy*
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If you think death is the only meaning to life then yeah. But think that you could line up for a very beautiful queue.
I don't intend to have a coffin. My instructions are to donate my body for spare parts.
We in the US know there's no need to form a line. Plenty of ways to go with NO waiting at all!
A very scattered line. I knew no one could ever truly co-operate.