I’d like to become a tree.

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    Strip me for parts and give the rest to science. I’m not real sentimental about my body once I’m done with it.

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      We did this for my dad, and my mom will follow the same path, I think.

      Some burocracy (and educating burocrats, as the law allowing for this in my country 🇦🇷 is recent) but it’s worth to do something useful of oneself after death while not enriching the post-mortem mafia.

      Of course both my brother and I want the same for ourselves.

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      I don’t thing corpse borne explosive device(CBEDs) are a legal form of burial, but I am not one to stand in the way of someone’s dreams so long as nobody is physically harmed.

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      I don’t thing corpse borne explosive device(CBEDs) are a legal form of burial, but I am not one to stand in the way of someone’s dreams so long as nobody is physically harmed.

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    Cremate me and grind my ashes into small particles.

    Then take those ashes and mix them into dark spices like pepper as a filler. Sell it to the general population.

    I will be vored. I will be inside you. I will become part of you. You cannot stop this.

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    I found a service that will mix your ashes in concrete and make you into an artificial reef. I like the idea of getting coral and sea fans to grow on me.

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    If I had my way about it, I’d have a tree planted over me, but I don’t expect to know the difference, so I don’t really think about it much.

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    viking style. I want to be pushed out to sea on a magnificent hand-crafted canoe. Then someone is going to shoot a flaming arrow into my canoe and I’ll go out in a blaze of glory. No one said you can’t request this and I think it would be pretty sweet. Needs instrumental accompaniment.

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      I tell my wife that I want to be cremated and then have a ceremony to dump my ashes in the bin. I find the idea hilarious.

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    Donate my body to science if possible, failing that, dispose of me in the most environmentally friendly way possible.

    Once I am dead I have no care for my body, maximize the use of it or minimize the impact of it.

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      Forgot about the donation angle! I’m signed up for organ donation, need to get that more clear in my will, but whole-body donation would be great.

      Worst case, med students can have a go, see how bones heal, stuff like that.

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    I don’t personally care. Burials and other ceremonies are for the living. I’d prefer something that doesn’t harm our environment and to donate as many organs as possible, but that’s pretty much it.

    I like what you said about being a tree. I may steal that.

    I don’t have kids. I plan to leave my assets to a charity. Probably something for animals but I haven’t really planned that far ahead yet.

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      People think anything matters after they die, like anything in the future at all, but there is no future… You skip right to the end of time. Nothing happens to your body at all.

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    Literally just throw me in a ditch idgaf as long as my body is allowed to naturally decay and recycle the energy back into the ecosystem.

    Stop locking bodies in boxes that take decades to decay.

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    Reminder to leave instructions for your loved ones, regardless of your age or health. One of the hardest decisions your family will go through is trying to guess what you’d want.