What will happen when you die?

[Turtle]

I have a very distinct feeling for the spirit being gone from the body...

...the body will go to transplant anything possible, the remains get cremated, the ocean or a nice mountain for scattering is good.

The service is up to partner and kids, it's for them anyway.

Beneficiaries are named. Done.

[skeeter_01]

My bff and I have promised each other that if anything happened to either of us..the survivor will take custody of the others dog..she's the first on my ICE on my phone....

Just knowing that Ty (my dog) would be going with his "aunt Jess" has taken all of the fear out of THAT part of that fateful day....

skeet

[KCBUTCH]

Well the cool thing I recently discovered is to have your remains incoporated into a newly planted tree sapling
Biodegradable urn
I was going to be cremated but this is way better

[LeftWriteFemme]

The thing that used to worry me about my death was who would have to empty out all my overstuffed rooms. Happily I have had a break through with the pack rat problem and so my mind is at ease concerning clean up. I have a list of people to be called and other than that no real concerns. Honestly I never expected to live this long, but now that I have I have stopped worrying about dying young.......age is a great solution for that...

[kittygrrl]

I've actually done a fair amount of musing on my passing of late. I don't think I will have many mouners, and a formal funeral is not to my liking. Creamation I think makes it easier and less expensive. I prefer a forest setting but I am not sure how much that will matter considering. A living will is a good idea.

Insofar as what I think happens after death, I'm fairly certain as I've already been there once in my 20's. I think we go where we are very comfortable and even happy. There is more to do on the other side then there is here, but you love your work there. It's not a burden.

[midwest chick]

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...

[princessbelle]

I have my affairs in order, insurance, house all that jazz.

As for me, i will be cremated and i want to go into the tackiest urn ever invented. Bright pink with glitter and maybe flashing lights. I hope i sit on a mantel somewhere and bug the crap out of anyone who sees me. Just as i do in real life.

Or i could end up in a closet.

Wouldn't be the first time.

[s0litude]

Originally Posted by KCBUTCH

Well the cool thing I recently discovered is to have your remains incoporated into a newly planted tree sapling biodegradable urn.
I was going to be cremated but this is way better

While this is a great idea, and I'll have to look further into it, with my luck, every dog in the neighborhood will "mark" me. Not sure how I feel about that. LOL!

Seriously though, most of my family has gone. I have my dad and nephews left. I don't want to be buried. At one point, I thought about being buried on my family's property near my sister,...

But when I stopped to think about it, I really want to just be done with it when I die. I don't want to be buried, have the grass grow over me, take up space, be a painful reminder IF someone were even to come visit my grave.

I like simple; simple works for me. I've already asked my oldest nephew to handle my ashes when I pass. I want to be cremated and have my ashes scattered at Lake Gaston in North Carolina where I spent much of my youth fishing and swimming.



I considered scattering them in the Atlantic ocean, preferably at Nags Head, NC-- but I'm terrified of the ocean, so that seems like a little taste of hell to me.