Cremation of Burial?

[smudge]

What are your own personal views on this inevitable subject?

[dorisday]

Cremated and my ashes scattered in the harbour at Monte Carlo

[natalie_1982]

I wanted to be cremated because I have a terrible fear that I will wake up, which I know sounds ridiculous but it's true. Also I want to donate my organs so rather than being all stitched up and not quite a whole me I'd prefer to be ashes. Another thing, I could be shared between my family, I could still have flowers on my grave and I could be sprinkled somewhere pretty.

[clarabel82]

I'd prefer Cremation. As if we all got buried there would be no room left and I don't like the thought of me being dug up to make room for others in 50 years time.

[galltin]

Well done Natalie. I'm benefiting from a person who shared your views and took the time to sign a donor card. Cremation definitely, the whole worms/eyeholes thing freaks me out!

[flashpig]

After I have donated my organs, and had my bones and fat made to make soap and stuff I would like my skinned body to be turned into a rug, like a bearskin, with my head still there. Classy. Or mounted on the wall like a moose.

[natalie_1982]

Well done me! Though how much use they'll be to someone else I don't know! Don't feel like they do a lot for me most of the time lol! Know what you mean about wormies tho, that is my reason no 4. I don't want to share my final bed with no creepy crawlies or slithery slimy types either!

[andy hughes]

I'm with the general concensus here - take the useful bits, and burn the rest. It sounds brutal, but it is a personal choice.

[galltin]

Blimey flashpig you'd make a fortune for your estate with that on ebay!

[natalie_1982]

Smudge, what about you?

[Enola]

They can take anything that they can use (organs, skin, marrow - the LOT) and burn the rest of me...and for all I care the ashes can go down the toilet - up to them! I'll be dead so I couldn't really give a damn where they go!

[tracymort]

i want to be a diamond!! http://www.lifegem-uk.com/

[smudge]

Like all of you, the thought of laying in a coffin, buried six feet under, with all the creepy crawlies eventually getting to me, has always given me the creeps. But most of all, the thought of waking up down there, has to be my worst fear! (Anyone ever seen the film 'Premature Burial'? For people who do chose to be buried, they should rest in peace & not be dug up so many years later, making way for buildings or motorways, etc. My Dad was cremated in 1994 & his ashes were placed in my Mum's coffin when she died 20 months later. Mum was buried & it's nice to know that they are still 'together', but the thought of my Mum being buried, especially when it's raining & snowing can still upset me. Yes, cremation is the only way for me. Nice to know your not on your own on this one! Thank you all.

[wildwood]

Prefer cremation for pretty much the same reasons.

[Moonhead]

Not just saying this to be different from the rest of you, but I think I want to be buried. I saw a program once on the process of cremation, and it was extremely upsetting. I know I'll be dead, so wont know a thing about it, but the thought of just being shoved into an incinerator, then scraped out with a rake, and then ground down to "ashes" makes me feel sick!

[smudge]

Moonhead, I have also seen a programme on cremation & yes it is was horrific & like being placed on a production line. I also wonder whether relatives are actually given their loved ones ashes, as there must be residues of someone else. Having said all that, I would still wish to be cremated.

[rekstout]

Buirla at sea - strip out the good stuff and help feed the fishies - more environmentally sound than either land burial or cremation - I also like the idea of drifing onto a beach and freaking out sunbathers. As far as I am concerned when I am dead, I am a lump of meat so I might as well be a meal.

[smudge]

Uumm, I rather like that idea too rekstout, after all we've always enjoyed eating 'fish' & chips, so perhaps we could reciprocate!

[bernardo]

I have always felt strongly that I want to be buried. I think it's an ego-trip thing of wanting aplace where people can see my headstone with my name and dates on.

[heartache]

I always wanted to be cremated but after watching a programme saying they burn a few bodies together rather than just one at a time im not sure now. The thought of being in a nice jar on my mantel piece appeals to me but not my partner lol, but it could be me and half of the street so to speak lol.

[zgma]

Heartache raises a good point... I don't care one way or the other, so if I'm first to go, it'll probably be my partner's preference, since he'll get to deal with the aftermath. Having said that, I kind of like the idea of being buried without a coffin, and just slowly becoming part of the soil.