My kids and I talk about this every now and then, they have an uncle who works in mortuary sciences...and I'm a nurse...so this isn't for everyone.
I want to have tissue digestion using alkali, aka water reduction, which is only performed/legal in a few states (was banned in Ohio a few years ago) and then be plant food--I was thinking a double blossom Cherry(yeah, pink) tree. The process is much cleaner environmentally than cremation, which creates considerable air pollution, so that's kinda out for me.
Some really good ideas can be perused in the book 'Stiff The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers' by Mary Roach. I thought some parts were hilarious, but keep in mind I'm a nurse, so I'm 'bent' that way...
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