Burying our dead.

up for anything · 05-08-2013 09:09AM

Having watched all the series of Bones, I'm opting for cremation. I don't fancy turning to sludge or ending up mummified and desiccated ruining a lovely satin lined coffin.

banquo · 05-08-2013 09:10AM

I actually thought the OP was rather clever!

gcgirl · 05-08-2013 09:53AM

When you buy a plot its for 3 coffins basically ! Personally I'm getting cremated

darkdubh · 05-08-2013 11:24AM

I want to be just dumped in the nearest boghole so in 5000 years time I'll be of great interest to archaoligists.

Toby Take a Bow · 05-08-2013 12:10PM

EdenHazard wrote: »

Yeah in Tokyo maybe...not in Ireland with one of the lowest population densities in Europe.

Key points I think you missed from my post: it is happening right now in Catalonia (which I am fairly sure has a lower population density than Japan) and that it's the way of the future when an increase in population will force a rethink of how we're doing things presently.

Chinasea · 05-08-2013 01:13PM

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

Key points I think you missed from my post: it is happening right now in Catalonia (which I am fairly sure has a lower population density than Japan) and that it's the way of the future when an increase in population will force a rethink of how we're doing things presently.

Totally agree, and as usual it takes downright reckless depletion of resources for this to be brought about, not 'forethought' or simple respect for the medium to which we owe/depend our existence to/on.

Galwayguy35 · 05-08-2013 01:18PM

up for anything wrote: »

Having watched all the series of Bones, I'm opting for cremation. I don't fancy turning to sludge or ending up mummified and desiccated ruining a lovely satin lined coffin.

No you will end up as bones and the coffin will rot.

Graves take up surprisingly little space really when you think about it, the same plot can be used for generations.

suicide_circus · 05-08-2013 01:27PM

wheelie bin, landfill, sorted.

gozunda · 05-08-2013 05:43PM

I wanna be composted....

Anyone paying their respects can visit my compost heap and remember dust into dust or in this case compost into compost - cant see the problem tbh

I Don't want no kiddy fiddler or people whom I had no time for turning up - to me 's quite amazing that in Ireland the dead can do no wrong even if they were complete b*ll*xs in real life and every one is 'expected' to show u at the funeral and say what a grand sod they were - I'd turn up all right and dance on de frackin coffin...

MadsL · 05-08-2013 05:52PM

Artful_Badger wrote: »

People should be cremated, its a bit outdated to be sticking dead people in holes in the ground.

FortuneChip wrote: »

Cremation rules out the possibility of Zombification.
Burn em all!

Cremation was not popular until the 20th Century; the story of the legalisation of cremation in the UK is a fascinating one.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/posts/dr_william_price_and_the_beginnings_of_cremation

Rasheed · 05-08-2013 05:58PM

Anyone that wants to give back to the earth when they shuffle off their mortal coil, ask someone to throw your body into a slurry tank. Your body will decompose nicely there and then you will be spread on the land to help it grow!

Jose1 · 08-08-2013 11:39AM

MadsL wrote: »

Cremation was not popular until the 20th Century; the story of the legalisation of cremation in the UK is a fascinating one.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/posts/dr_william_price_and_the_beginnings_of_cremation

A real eyeopener! I had always thought that legalised cremation, certainly around these parts, was as old as Methuselah. Obviously not!

Off topic, isn't it strange how so many seemingly highly intellectual people almost fall off the cliff and do absolutely crazy things:eek:

Dyr · 08-08-2013 11:44AM

Set up giant catapults on the coast that can fire the dearly departed about a mile out to sea

Red Nissan · 08-08-2013 11:54AM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

So you think the graveyards will be ploughed up and houses built on them?

Are you just having a laugh? You do know this happens all the time. 100 years after the last burial is the life of the graveyard, some are kept longer, some are just forgotten about and sometimes a decision to build over them is made.

We've had an hotel extension into a 600 year old graveyard in the last ten years.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 08-08-2013 12:24PM

up for anything wrote: »

Having watched all the series of Bones, I'm opting for cremation. I don't fancy turning to sludge or ending up mummified and desiccated ruining a lovely satin lined coffin.

Put in a request to be embalmed and then buried in a sealed casket.

I watched a show recently where a woman who's father died when she was in gestation had to be moved from his grave because of sale and development of the graveyard, (The States :rolleyes:)

The undertakers handled the exhumation as it wasn't a crime scene. The casket came up perfect no wear and tear. They brought it back to the funeral home and asked her to remain outside when they prised it open just in case it wasn't pleasant viewing.

The Body was perfectly intact, she saw her father for the first time. She was 56 years old, he died before she was born.

BeerWolf · 08-08-2013 12:48PM

I'm gonna be turned into a nice lovely diamond and haunt someone;

http://www.lifegem.com/

stoneill · 08-08-2013 12:54PM

realies wrote: »

I shall be burnt and my ashes spread over my favourite places in the world.

All over Jessica Alba's tits?

yoloc · 08-08-2013 01:45PM

I want to be frooze and scientists to bring me back to life when they have figured out how to. Think theres a place in america that does it but youve to live as close as possible to their base and think its couple hundred thousand to do so

Red Nissan · 08-08-2013 02:17PM

Mozzeltoff wrote: »

I always like the idea of a viking burial..

And have huge mounds bigger than football stadiums over one? It went on to be part of their downfall.

BeerWolf · 08-08-2013 02:30PM

Red Nissan wrote: »

And have huge mounds bigger than football stadiums over one? It went on to be part of their downfall.

I 'think' he's referring to being sent out to sea on a boat that's set on fire... :pac:

Mozzeltoff · 08-08-2013 02:37PM

She's referring! :P But yeah...read my post later on...boat..fire...sea...yes..that's how I want to be "buried!" :P

martinedwards · 08-08-2013 02:45PM

We were in Castleward this week and one of the Lord Bangors who had lived there was a keen sailor and wanted to be burried at sea.

there was no legal way to do this at the time so they sneaked off and did it on the sly, but unfortunately the coffin was made of wood, and full of air.......

so it floated off!

a game keeper was summoned, and several rifle shots later, his lordship submerged and hasn't been seen since!

Burying our dead.

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