How would you like to be laid to rest?

Mystic Fibrosis

For want of a better phrase....

Basically, how would you like to be remembered, but not in the achievement sense.

Me, I'd like to be cast in iron.

Not a statue though. I mean literally putting my body into a vat and encasing it in iron in some pose or whatever. And putting it somewhere.:f33r:

Plasticman

I want my corpse reanimated in a cybernetic organism.

Spenguin

Well, I don't really care what they do with my lifeless corpse when i die, but i wanna be remembered alright.

even if it is hatefully

claire h

*stares* Garóg, I worry about you.

I want my body to be sent into space. In a little rocket heading towards some far-off planet...

Raphael

Personally i want to be cremated. And just as my body is going into the furnace, i want a live band to start playing "another one bites the dust"

Liquorice

I want to be cremated because I have a fear of being buried alive. And have some of my ashes thrown into the wind, some into the sea and the rest buried in my back garden.

nosmo

I wish to die alongside a wedding, with everyone mourning my loss, and people commiting suicide because im so great. Then I will be buried in a pit of angst.

:rolleyes:

Zukustious

I wouldn't like to be laid to rest. I'll tell ya what. How about I just... don't die. Yeah I like that idea.

Barry Aldwell

Cremated. And I'd like Bohemian Rhapsody played at my funeral. And I'd like at least one rifle fired. Preferably in an honour guard, but if someone wants to go postal instead, by all means go ahead.

Also:
I want some kind of communist icon burned to symbolise my love of capitalism

I want no priests except the one in the coffin/urn

I want at least one bullet in with me. That way, if this god fella turns out to be real I can like........shoot him.......or something. Old skool :f33r:

I'd like my ashes to be spread over the battleground of Omaha Beach, as a tribute to the men who fought and died for freedom.

mike65

Dead....thats how.

Mike.

ll=llannah

what a lovely subject, Garog.

As interesting as the idea of ancient Egyptians was, with the mummification and emptying the body of its insides and the encasement in gold and the huge pyramids and such....I'd prefer to not be buried. Cremation for me. I'm afraid I'd be a tad bit claustrophobic down in a coffin. (I'm aware that I won't care at that stage, but still, pillows or not, its uncomfortable down there, or so I hypothesize..... but I think I'd quite like burning once I'm devoid of the capability to feel pain.)
But I want a temple in my memory. A big temple. In Crete. With corinthian columns and looming statues and imposing heights and lots of marble. Yes. That will do nicely.

Green Hand Guy

I have a fear of being buried alive

And yet no fear of being burned alive? Imagine waking up in the cremator machine thingy and it's slowly getting warmer and warmer. It gets hard to breath, your flesh starts to sting and melt off. You break out in blisters and then scream as the last remains of your brain are turned to ash.

But since being buried alive is also pretty damn scary I'm going to have my brain put into a super intelligent robotic body and have my body preserved in a glass case and put on display in my living room for all to see. And it'll be guarded by two robotic Grim Reapers who will kill any necropheliacs who break into my house so I can steal their flesh and make a skin suit to cover up my metallic robot exterior and process their organs and feed them to the homeless.

firebird

I'd like my body to go to a medical school - where, I'm not especially fussy, tho probably Trinity... I think I'd like it to be cremated once they're done with it - the idea of burying it when its been all cut up and poked and prodded just doesn't really appeal
As for remembering me - I'd want people to have fun - throw a party, stay up all night watching Monty Python, choose somewhere random and go spend a day there, just do something fun

It wasn't me!

I want to be publicly cremated. On a huge bonfire in town or somewhere everyone will see it. And a great band of the time to play heavy metal for 24 hours in tribute to my acheivements in the field.

While we're on this morbid topic, a good friend of mine went through a phase where he was so afraid of death he was suicidal. He just wanted to get it over with! Makes you think, huh...

Raphael

I'd like my body to go to a medical school

Don't suppose you're familiar with billy connelly?

Coz there were some pretty good reasons not to give your body to science. Mostly to do with the kind of things that happen. I probably shouldn't go into it in detail here, as it should be kept somewhat child friendly. But i wudnt advise it

s0l

Screw worrying about garog, I'm worried about Barry!

but yeah, I want to be remembered because I died 'On the job'

Squeee

As long as I don't die naked I'll be just fine!!!! I've always been terrified of dying naked, and I don't know why, perhaps it had something to do with my birth......I came here naked, I don't wanna leave naked, people might begin to think I'm some sort of communist!.
I wouldn't mind being cremated.....I mostly just want them to dispose of all the evidence. I don't like the idea of being buried coz chances are they'll change your clothes so you look nice (you just know that you're gonna be wearing a barney costume when you pass, and not you're pretties dress). That means that once again they'll have me naked when I'm dead. I can't help it, I just REALLY dislike the idea of being dead and naked. One or the other!:eek:

Havelock

Aoife: Anything I say about that would be first edited by Neil and then told to Jenny who would carve it into my brain. So I shall refain until I see you!:D

Nano-technological Blood. Immortality all the way!

But in the eventuality I don't get that, cremation and scattering in space.

Aliminator

no, ya muppet.
immortality comes about when we unlock how to stop the (i forget this term) 'gene allower' breaking down. each time ur DNA replicates, the 'gene allower' loses a bit. until, by hte time ur and old fogie, u've a few left, and then none. when u've none, u die of natural causes.

Death is unimportant. what u do in THIS life is important for those around.
what does a statue of some famous guy do for you? nada.

stevanavich

when i die i want to be the vessel for a computer, so that it can be more human, possess the abilty to move and fight with phsical prowess, a super hybrid of such immeasureable magnitude that .....

i'll stop now. basically, the helios ending of deus ex.

Zukustious

Originally posted by stevanavich
when i die i want to be the vessel for a computer, so that it can be more human, possess the abilty to move and fight with phsical prowess, a super hybrid of such immeasureable magnitude that .....

Wouldn't the corpse begin to rot. Pieces would be falling about the place. An arm might just drop of your torso and so on. You'd be kind of like a zombie.

Barry Aldwell

Originally posted by Zukustious
Wouldn't the corpse begin to rot. Pieces would be falling about the place. An arm might just drop of your torso and so on. You'd be kind of like a zombie.

We'd be forced to gun you down on a regular basis. I'll start stocking up on shotgun ammo, then.

mentalimplosion

on top of a pile of money, with many beautiful ladies.

hehe, sorry i thought that sounded cute. seriously, i don't think there's enough choice in this sector. like, c'mon, burnt or buried or cut into little pieces. ew.
i'd kinda like to be stuffed. and put in a museum. with clothes on though. the clothes must be involved.

actually, now i think about it, i'd kinda like the money and the beautiful ladies.

larry

would those beautiful ladies be alive or dead?

either wau it's pretty sick, on one hand you have live women stroking a dead body, on the onther you have a disturbing realisation of a sick fantasy.... plus Barry would probably have pictures of the whole thing.....


i personally would take the being cut up into pieces option, i mean, i would be dead, i won't be using my body.
if my death can benifit other people in some small way than why not.

It wasn't me!

I have a strange feeling mankind will never see an age where we have the technology to prevent death, if that's even physically possible. I'm thinking mankind has an excellent chance of being wiped out in the next few decades. Most probably all of us will be here when the world ends, or not... now that I think about it, we'll never realise the world has ended! Sweet blackouts.....

Squeee

See....now that's why I smoke! I don't wanna see the world end (well, I do, but I don't want lava) as I think it will involve molten lava and you'll all be burned horribly. I'll die painlessly hacking up my own lungs....oh. But what if the end is not nigh you ask? Well then I'll have enjoyed a good smoke-filled life where I alsways smelled like smoke and never had money to leave anyone. Yeah....:p

purplepolkadot

well, this guy i was a bartending told me that you can donate all your blood in a similar way to donating your organs, so if possible, if they catch me before i die, i want to donate all my blood and all the oul' organs.
and if science still want my body after that (and let's face it, who wouldn't?) they can have it.
and if science don't want my body, or after they have it, or what have you, i want to be cremated. cos i don't want a grave. cos i don't want my family visiting my grave. and i don't want a little cremation plaque thing or nothing. and i figure, that'll mean my family won't have to spend money on a funeral/remembrance service malarkey, so they can all go and have a nice dinner instead. and not right after i die, cos that's too much like going for the dinner after the funeral.
yeah, that's how it's going.

Crash

The more i think about it, besides the cremating yokey and the depositing of my ashes somewhere special to me (down the west i'd say....or else somewhere near where i grew up) the only thing i want is for my friends and family, those closest to me, to be able to sit down and think of me and feel that i at least made a difference of some sort for the better in their lives.

It wasn't me!

Pretty good idea.... I'm still going to be burned in public though!:D

Spenguin

I think the best way to die would be to jump of a cliff just seconds before you're due to die. fun fun fun. it would be FUN!!

John1188

Originally posted by It wasn't me!
I have a strange feeling mankind will never see an age where we have the technology to prevent death, if that's even physically possible.

it is actually possible to live for ever, all you have to do is not eat, ever. If you do this you can forseeablly (sp?) live forever or at least a few hundred years, the only obstacle is the fact that prolonged periods without food generally result in death

twirly sponge

Originally posted by John1188
it is actually possible to live for ever, all you have to do is not eat, ever.

What?! That's stupid, if you don't eat you DIE. How would not eating make you live forever? Maybe if you didn't eat stuff that's bad for you you'd live a bit longer but stuff that's bad for you just tastes so good...

It wasn't me!

You are all going to die!!!!
Get over it. There's nothing you can do about it so just enjoy whatever time is left to you.

John1188

the main reason we age is that digesting food damages our DNA, if we could avoid eating or absorb nutrients directly we would live possibly forever at least a few centuries

Spenguin

You know, there is a pretty big difference between forever and a few centuries. Not eating food? If You can't eat, whats the point of eating? I mean, living.

John1188

to do other stuff that isn't eating

twirly sponge

I so agree with Alison. Cos food is yummy. And as Shakespeare said "well, we were born to die" so I'd rather eat my food then live for centuries.

Awayindahils

why would anyone want to live forever- you'd probably be old for most of forever and unless u were loaded would look old and be tired and stuff all the time, youd be draagged out each year on your birthday for all the world to ooh and awh at and then sent back to were you came from- probably a nursing home given enough time to listen to people tlk about the good old days- of around about 2589 .Also you cnt actually live for ever as the sun will eventually burn up and swallow the world so instead of choosing creamation it id be forced upon you.

Despite all the benefits of living forever that people may see im happy to go in the not so impossibly distance future(take not so impossibly distant as 90+ years) but even by then youd be talk in about the millenium when every1 else is lookin to the turn of the century- youd have one it all befor.

purplepolkadot

to do other stuff that isn't eating

feck that **** like.

mentalimplosion

sorry for resurrecting an old thread (it's bound to get SOEMBODY banned and SOMETHING locked, like any other attempts at anything here) but i was reading this and was thinking. my friend wants to be frozen in a superman pose and shot into space with rocketman playing in the background. or, she wants to be cremated with either firestarter or light my fire playing as the cremation is happening. this is the best discussion to havevery loudly in a crowded restaurant

Crash

Originally posted by mentalimplosion
(it's bound to get SOEMBODY banned and SOMETHING locked, like any other attempts at anything here

.....subtle.

shep the malevolent pixie

i wanna be cremated. *starts singing the ramones* :rolleyes:

also i want someone to stab me a few times in the heart so they're sure i'm dead before they do anything with me. i dunno, maybe i'm being overly paranoid but still...:ninja:

tibilt

i dont want to achieve immortality in peoples memories.
i want to achieve it by not dying.

It wasn't me!

Original, if your name's Woody Allen....:ninja:

tibilt

my apologies, i didn't know woody allen was so important to you.
and it wasn't his in the first place anyway.

Barry Aldwell

Originally posted by tibilt
my apologies, i didn't know woody allen was so important to you.
and it wasn't his in the first place anyway.

"Hey! If this is anyone except Steve Allen you're stealing my bit!"

tibilt

quiet goatboy.

freakydeadgirl

in a blaze of fire......
thats what i feel would be a good way to go.
with mastadon's march of the fireants at full blast or some other song along the same deciable level
it would combine my love of fire and loud music
causing some sort of mass chaos at the same time would be fun too.

mr. scanger

Cremated and/or smoked.Ya'd get a great laff of wateva burned off me!!!

the_only_Ali

Hmm.... I will live forever or die trying. But if I do die, cremation is always good. But I want some of my ashes buried so I can have a big tombstone in a haunted graveyard somewhere, and all my friends can come and weep and mourn at the foot of my crumbling sepulchre... and I want the rest of my ashes scattered along the Dorsh line so I can haunt the rugger buggers and possess their Dubes.

Hey, I read somehwere that after you're cremated you can get your ashes turned into diamonds and put them on rings and stuff for your friends.... thats an idea.

A weird one but an idea nonetheless... who came up with that anyway?

Barbie_666

Originally posted by the_only_Ali
Hey, I read somehwere that after you're cremated you can get your ashes turned into diamonds and put them on rings and stuff for your friends.... thats an idea.

A weird one but an idea nonetheless... who came up with that anyway?

AMERICANS.




(ps. it costs £10,000 stg. and the average body has enough carbon to produce 7 diamonds...)