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I'd like to become a tree.

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[-] Old_Jimmy_Twodicks@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 month ago

Scatter my remains across Disney World, although I don't want to be cremated.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

How about dehydrated like jerky?

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

"This is an outrage! I was going to eat that mummy!"

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[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

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

[-] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago
[-] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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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[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago
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[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago

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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[-] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

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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[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago
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[-] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

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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[-] Kahnares@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

Bury me "buns-up" in a sidewalk downtown so someone has a place to park their bicycle.

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[-] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

Whatever is cheapest/easiest for my family.

[-] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 3 points 1 month ago

Just be sure you give someone a heads up so that they can practice their archery enough to actually set you on fire

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[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Prop me up beside the jukebox.

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 5 points 1 month ago

church organ donation.

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

There are easier ways to get laid man

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[-] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I'm an organ donor, but I suspect my organs won't be worth much by the time I'm done with them.

[-] WatDabney@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] joe_archer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I don't give a fuck, I'll be dead.

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[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago
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[-] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

There’s still some active tar pits. I’m surprised nobody is intentionally trying to become a fossil. It would be cool to do some weird shit to mess with the aliens who find your fossil in 10,000 years or so.

[-] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Fuck it, I wanna be cryogenically frozen, if I can have the chance of living hundreds of years in the future, no matter how slim, I'd rather be prepared.

[-] UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Make me and my partner a tree, set up a hammock between us, and hang with us from time to time

[-] twistypencil@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Flay my skin, stretch and tan it into a hammock, hang it between these two people and then lay in it and smoke a joint

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I would like someone to rent a tree spade, one if those trucks that can pick up a mature tree with its root ball, pick up a nice tree, wrap me in linen, throw me in the hole, and drop the tree back into the hole on top of me.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
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[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Just throw my body in the trash. And no religious burial. I'll be damned if some pastor who doesn't know shit about me give an hour long eulogy about Jesus over my corpse.

[-] lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 month ago

The pastor I hired to deliver the sermon at my dad's funeral literally implied that my dad was not "up above" but "down below". I think it's because we asked him to keep it non-religious and he was being petty.

[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago

I would like to remain dead

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Trebuchet my bloated corpse into Dick Cheney's living room

[-] Romkslrqusz@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

I want my nutrients returned to the earth.

That means that green burial, human composting, burial at sea, and aquamation are all options.

I absolutely do not want cremation. It’s an energy intensive process that also renders the deceased’s accumulated nutrients unavailable to other organisms.

This thread also reminds me that I need to revoke the organ donor status from my driver’s license. As much as I like / appreciate the concept, a viable organ donation requires dying in a hospital. I would prefer to pass outdoors in a natural setting that I feel connected to or, at worst, in my own home.

[-] lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 month ago

Could you leave the organ donor status just in case you die in a hospital?

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Something cheap for my family.

[-] Batman@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

I want my body donated to a body farm.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

If you want to be a tree, go cremation. Trees get their carbon from the air not the soil.

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[-] Val@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Sky Burial!!!

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Shoot me out of a cannon

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

I've organised to have my body donated to a medical school for dissection. It was quite complicated, lots of forms to be filled in and witnessed. My executor has to phone the university when I die & they send a van to collect me. They won't accept my body if I've died of something communicable, or it was eg some accident that left me too mangled. When they're done with me I'll be cremated and my name goes up on a plaque in a special garden.

[-] Travelator@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 month ago
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[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I don't give a fuck because I'm dead and won't be there to see it.

Do whatever you want with my corpse.

[-] Rin@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago
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[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Donate all my usable organs, plant a fruit tree in the empty chest, preferably in the yard of my family home.

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