I'm not planning on a burial, but those biodegradable cardboard coffins look pretty awesome, and they're (comparatively) cheap as fuck too.
My plan is to get cremated - but it would be great to either sneak in some petrol into the casket, or pay the funeral directors to go for a two minute walk while someone packs my casket with fireworks or other low-explosive compounds.
At best, it'll put on one last show - and at worst it'll give the crematorium staff member a hell of a shock.
If you want to biodegrade, some places now have funeral service companies that will compost you into mulch. Your remains can safely fertilize your favorite garden, park, or forest.
Donate your body to the military so that they can do bomb testing on it
How the body of an Arizona great-grandmother ended up as part of a U.S. Army blast test
Have the casket burst into multicolored flames mid service, maybe have something make demonic screams or have one of those weird fireworks that expands into twisting tentacles as it burns
My fantasy is to just grow old until the point where I know my health can't be helped any more and I just plan my own exit.
My thought is to just wander into the wilderness, preferably in the winter, go to a place as far away from anyone as possible in the thickest wildest forest I can get to .... tell no one what I did or where I went and then just lie down and go to sleep.
Chances are though ... I'll probably just end up in a home not knowing my name
I really wish we had a reminder bot here - Remind me before I die
It would be just very slightly suspicious if a bot knows when you're about to die.
Nah I don't mind, especiallly if it can be programmed to yell "VIKING BURIAL" as soon as I die (or am about to die), will help others to also locate me in case I am away
As far as I'm aware, it's not illegal to conduct a Viking funeral, as long as it won't interfer with shipping.
Probably wouldn't hurt to tell the coast guard prior to the event...
In my state, it's completely legal as long as you inform the fire marshall (?) beforehand. Apparently for many others as well
That or a pyre. My wife says she'd be glad to burn me when I'm gone.
that is common in south east asia, mostly because of beliefs of 4/5 element that are belived to form us, fire is common to most of them
Nah, I want that anime coffin, better yet, put a gundam on the side of the boat and light me up!
Use me for parts. Donate me to a school, use whatever organs are usable, then bury the rest somewhere it can be good fertilizer. Or burn it. I won't be here to complain 🤷🏿♀️
Can I get the viking funeral, but skip the boat to reduce costs? Just chuck me into the sea and fire arrows at me untill I sink.
I've already got a nice hole dug in the backyard for the family to roll me into.
Doesn’t that create prions?
not necessarily, unless someone specifically is fed on carcasses of other dead. Basically, if any body with prions is present in open environment, and only small bugs/bacteria/fungii are doing their job, they will simply decay everything, since they don't have many complex protiens in them, they don't mind eating prions. And once they die, they basically just become raw nutrients (amino acids) and then to even simpler compounds (most amino acids are not that stable outside life, would get oxidised). If we consider bigger animals decomposing, for example hyenas and vultures or crows, as long as they are not then fed upon by something that we eat (lets say cattle, or we don't directly eat them) then it is ok. If i am not wrong, some cultures basically just through theri bodies in some large pits for these animals only.
