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Burial or Cremation

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  • 23-11-2020 4:17pm
    #1
    Gael23
    Registered Users Posts: 12,091 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    When you kick the bucket would you rather go 6 foot under or into the cremation furnace?


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    km991148
    Registered Users Posts: 4,275 ✭✭✭km991148


    I think I'll be too busy being pissed off about being dead to care :pac:


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    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,992 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    Gael23 wrote: »
    When you kick the bucket would you rather go 6 foot under or into the cremation furnace?

    Neither are very good for the environment. Consider a third option.

    https://www.wired.com/story/alkaline-hydrolysis-liquid-biocremation/

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



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    #4
    Smee_Again
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    Pickled.


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    #5
    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Cut up into equal sized pieces and buried at various locations around the country.

    Pieces the size of a match box would be what I would be thinking.


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    Purgative
    Registered Users Posts: 2,509 ✭✭✭Purgative


    Bin Bag (a strong one)


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    Stovepipe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭Stovepipe


    into the sea, you and me...


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    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,929 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Mushroom burial suit, good for the soil

    https://www.bbc.com/news/48140812

    I don't know why anyone would want a traditional grave with a headstone etc, it's just a waste of space.


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    Gael23
    Registered Users Posts: 12,091 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    iamstop wrote: »
    Neither are very good for the environment. Consider a third option.

    https://www.wired.com/story/alkaline-hydrolysis-liquid-biocremation/

    Would burial not provide fertiliser for the ground as you rot


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    Foweva Awone
    Registered Users Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭Foweva Awone


    I'll donate my body to one of the universities for medical students to work on. After that it'll be cremated.


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    #11
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,284 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Probably buried, I'm not great with the heat.


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    Stihl waters
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    iamstop wrote: »
    Neither are very good for the environment. Consider a third option.

    https://www.wired.com/story/alkaline-hydrolysis-liquid-biocremation/

    Is that available in Ireland


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    eviltwin
    Registered Users Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    I'm hoping to donate my body to medical training. I can't think of a better use for me. After that cremate me and scatter my ashes somewhere nice.


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    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    Stihl waters wrote: »
    Is that available in Ireland

    Yeah over in Galway


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    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,176 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    I have previously decreed that I shall be laid to rest in a 400-meter-square pyramid on the green opposite my house, accompanied by numerous serving-wenches, livestock and magnificent treasures. Before the final tomb-sealing there shall be a week-long official lying-in-state in the middle of the local pub, where my idjit mates can spend some time getting seriously pissed and saying things like "Would you look at the bollocks there lah, he never looked so well!" :cool:


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    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    jimgoose wrote: »
    I have previously decreed that I shall be laid to rest in a 400-meter-square pyramid on the green opposite my house, accompanied by numerous serving-wenches, livestock and magnificent treasures. Before the final tomb-sealing there shall be a week-long official lying-in-state in the middle of the local pub, where my idjit mates can spend some time getting seriously pissed and saying things like "Would you look at the bollocks there lah, he never looked so well!" :cool:

    Seems a bit excessive....


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    duffysfarm
    Registered Users Posts: 847 ✭✭✭duffysfarm


    let the organ donor crowd take everything they want and then put me in the cheapest coffin available and throw me in a hole and let the maggots and worms eat away....


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    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,176 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    Seems a bit excessive....

    You think a week is too long?


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    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,436 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    iamstop wrote: »
    Neither are very good for the environment. Consider a third option.

    https://www.wired.com/story/alkaline-hydrolysis-liquid-biocremation/

    That all sounds like a brilliant idea. Love what the guy who runs the machines calls breast implants ... jellyfish :D


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    ztoical
    Registered Users Posts: 4,788 ✭✭✭ztoical


    Stihl waters wrote: »
    Is that available in Ireland

    A Meath mortician announced they'd be opening the first aquamation centre in Ireland in 2020...I assume like most things in 2020 it's been delayed


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    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    jimgoose wrote: »
    You think a week is too long?

    hmmmmm I dont want to rain on your parade but as a former altar boy, a body in a casket starts to smell after a few days. I had to serve at one a week later because family had to come from Australia..... It was one strong smell.


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    Gatling
    Registered Users Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Cremation for me ,

    No point being dropped into a hole where you will be forgotten about ,

    Fire up the oven for one last roast
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    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,176 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    hmmmmm I dont want to rain on your parade but as a former altar boy, a body in a casket starts to smell after a few days. I had to serve at one a week later because family had to come from Australia..... It was one strong smell.

    Not my problem - a week it is. Guards! Seize him!!


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    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,436 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    ztoical wrote: »
    A Meath mortician announced they'd be opening the first aquamation centre in Ireland in 2020...I assume like most things in 2020 it's been delayed

    There's a website, but not much else ...

    https://www.watercremation.ie/


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    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Not my problem - a week it is. Guards! Seize him!!

    I didnt mean it!!!! I am sure you will smell wonderful in Hades!!


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    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,176 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    I didnt mean it!!!! I am sure you will smell wonderful in Hades!!

    In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
    A stately pleasure-dome decree:
    Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
    Through caverns measureless to man
    Down to a sunless sea.

    :D


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    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    jimgoose wrote: »
    In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
    A stately pleasure-dome decree:
    Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
    Through caverns measureless to man
    Down to a sunless sea.

    :D

    Still they do a great barbecue down there. I love the hoofed ones chili ribs


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    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Id like to be tied to a tree in a forest and left there as carrion.


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    #29
    spaceHopper
    Registered Users Posts: 3,979 ✭✭✭spaceHopper


    Flushed down the toilet, good enough for goldfish good enough for me.


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    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    spaceHopper wrote: »
    Flushed down the toilet, good enough for goldfish good enough for me.

    You are somewhat bigger than a goldfish? wouldnt you like your protein to be recycled for lab grown meat?


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    MsStote
    Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭MsStote


    Cremation in the Cork crematorium. Gorgeous place and so much cheaper. I have it in the will that I want the cheapest option, even if it is cardboard. I am to be placed into a biodegradable container. Then throw me off a cliff in West Cork lol no scattering ashes, I seen how horrible that goes wrong!


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