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I would want cremation. Cremation and a simple marker. I wouldn't be buried at all at my marker, because I would actually want my ashes spread in two separate places. One is somewhere in my hometown and the other spot, probably around the recreational area of my middle school, where I had commonly found peace at.

My marker would have a Red Sox emblem, signifying fan for life to that team. The other symbol would probably be a resemblance of rebirth/reincarnation as a reflection of my beliefs, so presumably a phoenix would go there. Not entirely sure what exactly I'd want written on the marker. Debating on a personal quote or just say "Logged off for the last time" which references from all of the time I've spent being online.

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[–] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 minutes ago

My dead naked body should be catapulted at Mar-a-Lago.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 20 minutes ago

Donate the useful bits to others, use me for science, then turn me into compost.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 1 points 31 minutes ago

Launched from the solar system on a path out of the galaxy. Or left in the wilderness for nature to have it's way.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 2 points 58 minutes ago

High explosives. At least I could go out with a good bang.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

don't give a shit

take my organs, practice cutting me up, burn the rest or bury me under a tree that you'll see grow for decades

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 20 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

I want to be scattered at Disneyland (note: I do not wish to be cremated).

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Weekend at Bernie's style around It's a Small World?

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

i wonder if anyone has invented the meat chipper

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 points 22 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 minutes ago

Oh yes, I was just commenting on the fact that a wood chipper seemed a bit inefficient when it comes to the harder bits of an unused corpse. Perhaps it would be more pertinent, then, to describe this non-existing-as-of-yet invention as a bone chipper.

[–] modus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Most landscapers have one.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

They don't like that. Whoever scatters then might win a lifetime ban.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Not my problem.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Don't have to even be dead, I just want to be launched into the sun because that would be pretty rad.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Due to gravity and your point of origin being earth (which is moving suprisingly fast), its actually very difficult to actually hit the sun...

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 20 minutes ago

Oh it'd cost an absolute shitload of delta v, but that doesn't make me want it less.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Yes. It's guaranteed, given enough time.

Technically I guess it could be considered a ride share kind of thing, since I think my remains will have been recycled as a bunch of other people's remains, by that time...

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 points 1 hour ago

9/10 men can't find the sun

[–] toomanypancakes@piefed.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Cremated, composted, something like that. I'll be dead so I'm not too picky. Just as long as nobody wastes money on a fucking coffin.

[–] CathyBikesBook@piefed.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

Cremation and organ donation. Already written in my living will and communicated to my remaing family

[–] TotallyNotSpezUpload@startrek.website 26 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Getting tossed in a hole with a tree planted on top so it can consume my remains.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

based

I thought about the tree thing alot.

I mean coffins seem so lame... tree is new life, its kinda beautiful in a way that is hard ti explain

[–] NotACentrifugalBird 1 points 2 hours ago
[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

I intend to leave requests for some minor crimes related to my cremated ashes, in my will.

Nothing too serious, just enough to fuck with whoever executes my will. To...uh... remind them I was thinking of them, and maybe to make them a tiny bit relieved to be rid of my bullshit.

[–] MuttMutt@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

About 1/3 will be combined with my wife and her dog who have already passed. Another 1/3 will be combined with my fiancé. These will be scattered in a few different places that are special to us.

The final 1/3 is to be combined with concrete and made into ice cube sized pieces to be taken to different reefs around the world by whomever will take them.

I currently carry a tiny portion of my wife and her dog with me everywhere.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm sorry for your loss.

There's something beautiful about having a plan that detailed to acknowledge that much love you have shared.

[–] wirelesswire@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 hours ago

I don't care, I'll be dead. Whatever is cheapest and simplest.

[–] WILSOOON@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

this, i want to blown the fuck up

[–] Steve@communick.news 9 points 4 hours ago

I wouldn't even know what people did.

But maybe...
Hide pieces of my body in the vents of Mar a lago.
Let them rot and stink up the place.

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

I want to be left in a strangers car trunk.

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Whatever is the most ecologically sound method of disposal.

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 hours ago

I'm not here, physically couldn't give a shit

[–] JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social 2 points 3 hours ago

If I'm not cremated feed me to an animal, otherwise mix my ashes in with a bunch of psychotic drugs and let my essence take you on a magical journey.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago

Compost. I don't really care about a marker or whatnot either. Maybe, if I had to; a cherub with a solar powered pump that periodically pees on [billionaires] grave stone or maybe just a simple stone with this meme but, eh. Won't matter to me after the fact because I am not.

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

There's a burial forest near here, I'll be quite happy there. No markers, no embalment, no coffin, just a shroud and trees.

[–] LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

Don't really care, since I'll be dead. But donating my body to medical school doesn't sound so bad

[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

I donated my body to scientist named Frankenstein when I died

[–] First_Thunder@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago

Put into the ground into a wooden coffin, no crap to try and preserve my remains, a nice tombstone over it

[–] buttmasterflex@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Make a marionette out of my body and use it to tell my life story.

A friend from high school wants his hands to be glued to the side of his face, then be decapitated so it looks like he pulled off his own head.

[–] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Seems like we all want to be as nutrient-conserved as possible! It's too bad there are all the rules about proper disposal - I get why they're there, but yeah, random hole for me. Tree on top sounds great

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Organ donation or medical/scientific use. Whatever parts are not useful can be disposed of in whatever way is easiest.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

Stick a sapling in my guts and put me in a hole. That's about it tbh.

[–] brap@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I couldn’t care less, I’d be dead. Let those I left behind do whatever they feel most comfortable with or appropriate to help them get through it.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Ideally? Loaded in to a rocket and sent in the same general direction as the voyager 1

[–] juliebean@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

unfortunately everything i would most want done with the bulk of my remains is illegal in the US. no cannibal barbecue memorial. no using bones for arts and crafts. at least my organs can get donated if anyone needs them, but best legal option after that's done is probably cremation, and then use my ashes in making a nice ceramic dish set or sculpture or something.

[–] digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

Cremation and mixed up with my furry companions that have passed on before me. After that I wouldn’t mind being spread out in the far reaches of the wilderness. Be up to the wife really.

But for all its worth Do Not put me on a cemetery.

[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 hours ago

Sky burial. I don't think that's allowed here tho.

[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

I don't care I won't be there. The living should decide whatever they want, it's not my business.