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...but make sure I be ded first 'mkay?

I don't much care. I told my wife to drag the carcass out into the woods and prop it up against a tree. Wait six months or so then report me missing. Park my old truck on the other side of the valley and let 'em look. If I have advance notice, I have the place of my demise and subsequent decomposition all picked out. I hope the ravens have a feast. GD

I don't care, just make sure I'm actually dead before proceeding.

Yessir.
Immediate take away, use any and all that can be, cremate remainder, no obituary, no funeral, memorial service if family wants it, spread ashes as requested.

I wish I could be taped to the bottom of a reentry capsule and burn off that. But for now, I want to be torched, a third in the Middle Fork, a third in the St Mary River and the last third in either the Beaverhead or Teton.

I have my camo ash bucket on top of the gun safe.Everything is already paid for,The boy can do what ever with us he wants.The wife and dog are on the mantel waiting.

Throw me on a rock pile out at the farm and let the animals pick away at me. Don’t care what happens when I’m dead

Whatever's cheapest and easiest for whoever has to deal with it.

GF and I just had a conversation about this the other day. I told her I want cremated and my ashes spread between here where I hunt, Pymatuning lake and lake Erie.

Cremation for my wife and I. Kids can do whatever, whenever afterwards.


Had an uncle pass a few years ago, he wanted his ashes spread on some private land he had history with. The new owners said no to the request. A family friend offered to take his plane out for a little crop dusting, our whole family watched from roadside.

Wife and I are organ donors. After they harvest any organs, our wills state we are to be cremated and specifies where we would like ashes spread.

I’m going the Timothy Treadwell route. I figure I’ll let the bears eat me and spread my remains

The important part is for those who survive you to have closure. The dead person won't care, but those still alive will.

My hunting and fishing mentor died in 1985, and was cremated. His daughter never picked up his ashes, never held any kind of a ceremony. I picked up his ashes and took them to the place where we hunted for years. I put him in the river we loved to hunt near and fish. I did the same with my dog, who also loved that place. I'm considering having the same thing done with my remains. I better make up my mind soon as I will be 75 in a month.

Mom had a company who sold the body for scientific use then back to the company for cremation. We were sent the ashes. All for free. Wish I remembered the company's name. Be Well, RZ.

Quite a few of my relatives have donated their bodies to medical research, primarily at the University of South Alabama School of Medicine. Dad wanted to go that way as well. All we had to pay for was delivery from the hospital to the med school. They kept him for about a year, cremated the remains and mailed his ashes home. I like to think he was still helping out after he was gone. I'll do the same.

Roll me up and smoke me when I die.

^^^This^^^

A noted and wealthy old Rancher from a Pioneer Family from this area had his nephews haul his plain pine box to the Cemetery on his Ranch in a horse drawn wagon.
At graveside, his nephews each drove a nail into the lid of the coffin. Then they placed his well worn and battered Stetson hat on top of the coffin before lowering it into the ground.
Neat funeral.

Nowadays, lots of permits and paperwork required if you want to be buried on private land.
So some have the body cremated and then bury the ashes on the Ranch.

My will specifies that I be fed to a wood chipper.

There is another alternative. In our town we now have a section of our newest cemetery that is designated a green burial site. The green burial is simple and very inexpensive. You buy the grave site and have a responsible person or a funeral home if you chose to place your non embalmed body into a biodegradable burial container and it is placed into our site. No casket and no vault. The body and site are free to return to nature without the traditional grave markers associated with cemeteries. The body enclosed in a biodegradable burial container is placed at the bottom of a 4 to 5 foot grave lined with pine bows, wood chips and anything that will quickly decompose. The earth is placed back onto the site and allowed to form a hump on top of the grave which will in time settle as the body decomposes. The cost for the grave site complete with a deed is less than a grand and there is only the excavation charges that the family would have to pay for. No granite markers and a simple wooden cross or other biodegradable marker is allowed. Most so far have had a funeral home to coordinate but it isn't necessary. I am a cemetery commissioner here in town and we feel that the green burial concept will be similar to when cremation came on the scene offering a cheaper alternative to traditional burial which has gone way up in cost. Presently cremations are probably more popular than traditional but have gone up in price over time. Our cemetery was the first in Vermont to offer this service but others have now gone this way. I suspect in most ares of the country other cemeteries are also making this service available. Body back to nature is the concept.

No obituary? I didn’t realize you are that embarrassed of yourself.