Why are people so fixated on what happens after you die?

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katja@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 238d

Just spread my remains in Central Park.

I don't wish to be cremated.

Thyazide@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 238d (4 replies)

darkdemize@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 238d (2 replies)

The last time I visited my mom, we ended up on the subject of death somehow. I said this line verbatim to her, not fully serious, but not really joking either. She was not amused.

BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 237d (1 reply)

If sky burials were legal where I live I would absolutely do that. Closest to "throw me in the trash" you can get while still "respecting the dead"

LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 237d

I'm just gonna donate my body to a medical school. What they do with me after they're done with me is their problem.

lemmywinksthegerbilking@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 234d

fill me up with cream, make a stew out of my ass who cares its a dead body

AstaKask@lemmy.cafe · 10 pts · 238d (2 replies)

I prefer composting to cremation

kelpie_returns@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 238d (1 reply)
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drcobaltjedi@programming.dev · 5 pts · 237d

Yup, gut me for parts and throw whats left of me into a forest. If I get eaten by a wolf or mold you have disposed of my body correctly.

toomanypancakes@piefed.world · 8 pts · 238d (4 replies)

When I die I wanna be taxidermied

HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 238d

You can donate your body to the Body Worlds exhibit, if that's still a thing

AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 238d

I was thinking about this earlier and if I ever have kids, I'll disown them from the grave if they have me embalmed or cryogenically frozen instead of taxidermied or cremated. I'm hoping for a wacky taxidermy if anything.

Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 237d

Can i interest you in Plastination?

0ops@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 237d

Yeah, no biggie Ramses, we can handle that

masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 238d

Wait till you get to deal with all the nightmarish legal red-tape (not to mention the parasitic death industry feeding on all of it) that a death in the family brings.

Most of us are literally too poor to die.

Kasane_Teto@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 238d (1 reply)

I shall be left to decompose in a field of crops

whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 238d

Same but a field of crap is good enough

Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au · 1 pts · 237d (1 reply)

I'm an idiot, what does Folgers and Arby's have to do with any of this?

lauha@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 237d

People who are in on the scam know to cremate the body, but the cremation industry is clearly also a scam.

user1234@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 237d

The Dude abides.

lemmywinksthegerbilking@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 234d

just freeze yourself and get unfreezed 1000 years from now