When I die I want the doctors and scientists to take whatever might be useful or interesting in one way or another if that's going to be the case, and the rest to be incinerated and spread over a nice grassy place or somewhere else like that. It doesn't matter, it's going to be just junk.
Kinda neat of the guy to do that I guess but it but me personally, it would just keep reminding me of the kid and I would needlessly feel worse.
I consider the dead meat of one no more of "a person" than I find a bucket of water "a river". Even without getting into ideas of spiritualism and possibility of any kind of astral afterlife, the value of human leftovers has minimal value to me.
[QUOTE=SexualShark;43279321]Making jewelry out of your dead enemies. That'd be gangster as fuck.[/QUOTE]
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Would be pretty cool, but also a little creepy. Instead of passing down your dead grandmothers ring, you'd actually be passing down your dead grandmother...
This is actually kind of beautiful.
Ashes are dark and gloomy, but a diamond will shine forever.
I too want to be a diamond :(
It's a soul gem
[QUOTE=Loriborn;43279566]For comparison, a casket goes for an upward of $900
Embalming, and basic funeral service is an upwards of $3,000
That's not even counting the burial plot and gravestone.[/QUOTE]
Are you telling me that it's cheaper to turn my body into a fucking diamond than it is to get a funeral
[QUOTE=Whyt546;43279474]I heard of companies doing this sort of thing a while back. Probably expensive as shit.[/QUOTE]
I found about this kinda stuff years ago; amazing what they can do with the tech of today. Now, if they could encode the son's personality and memories into the diamond, that'd be a different case entirely, like some sort of "soul gem".
[QUOTE=Paramud;43282884]Are you telling me that it's cheaper to turn my body into a fucking diamond than it is to get a funeral[/QUOTE]
Yeah, easy choice right?
This reminds me of a comic I read where a guy who was in a romantic relationship with a German Shepherd was beating up plant-sexuals and encountered a mineral-fucker who he fell in love with, and by the end was killed and the mineral-fucker turned him into a diamond which (s)he used for sex every night because his soul was stuck in it or some shit.
I wonder how much of "you" they would use to make the diamond. Like if you compressed the shit out of a body's worth of ashes, how big would the diamond be?
Personally, I would want my body to be launched into space to drift around the galaxy not unlike the Voyager. NASA could study the effects of dark matter on a corpse for science or something :v:
As nice as it would be to be turned into a diamond, I'm going to save up to have my ashes launched in to space, with the Voyager service.
Which means you are literally travelling through space after you die.
I find this pretty cool. It would be the second thing to do if my family could afford this. First would be to donate whatever organs I can so I can save someone's life.
This is weird but a good idea at the same time
I want to be turned in to a diamond so that I get stolen and am constantly being watched over by people, rather than burnt up in to the air or slapped underground.
What if someone gets murdered, turned into a bullet-shaped diamond, and get shot into the murderer several years later?
[QUOTE=SexualShark;43279321]Making jewelry out of your dead enemies. That'd be gangster as fuck.[/QUOTE]
I do that in skyrim.
My father has said he wanted to be cremated. I just suggested doing this to his ashes, he's actually considering it.
[QUOTE=PolarEventide;43280590]You're not returning to the earth in a coffin, either. You're in a closed box..[/QUOTE]
So can I request to be buried directly into the ground without a coffin? Because I think I'd choose that.
[QUOTE=Loriborn;43280618]
again, most ashes go in urns[/QUOTE]
most people who prefer cremations want their ashes scattered in important locations of the persons life.
[QUOTE=Loriborn;43280618]again, most ashes go in urns[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;43285659]most people who prefer cremations want their ashes scattered in important locations of the persons life.[/QUOTE]
You're both using the word "most" without any sources. Let's just say it's 50/50 until proven otherwise.
I still want a proper Viking burial.
I looked at the picture of the diamond and then thought about ringpops and now I feel sick.
Pretty diamond though
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[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;43285676]You're both using the word "most" without any sources. Let's just say it's 50/50 until proven otherwise.[/QUOTE]
im using the information and memories i've gathered from being an individual for 22 years thanks
[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;43286199]im using the information and memories i've gathered from being an individual for 22 years thanks[/QUOTE]
I'm 20 and know a total of three people who died, one of which was cremated.
How many people can I expect to die and be cremated in the next two years?
My body's going out into space, preferably extrasolar but that would be pretty expensive.
I'd be fine with earth orbit burial though. Although there's always the risk of me crashing into some poor rocket on its way up, splattering my insides all over space.
[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;43286199]im using the information and memories i've gathered from being an individual for 22 years thanks[/QUOTE]
Well while you're using anecdotal information, I found some statistics reported by actual crematories and funeral directories.
[URL]http://www.cremationinfo.com/cremationinfo/PDF/dreport.pdf[/URL]
The information totals at the bottom states that only 17.8% are scattered over land or water, and 6.2% are scattered over a specific piece of property meant for ashes (total 24% of ashes are scattered over nature) and only 23.1% are buried at all. (this can be either within an urn or not, we can assume at least half of these burials are within some container)
35.8% are stored at home, and 10.4% are placed in a columbarium; 56.8% of cremations resulted in urn purchase, with an additional 11.4% extra urns purchased as keepsakes. (either with a few ashes or not)
So basically, while urn usage is roughly 60%, less than 30% of ashes are actually scattered over nature. In fact, 5.7% of ashes are never picked up at all.
[QUOTE=Gatsby;43279450]He went to Jared :)[/QUOTE]
-snip- Dumb joke.
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