• PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
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    10 days ago

    I’m not planning on a burial, but those biodegradable cardboard coffins look pretty awesome, and they’re (comparatively) cheap as fuck too.

    My plan is to get cremated - but it would be great to either sneak in some petrol into the casket, or pay the funeral directors to go for a two minute walk while someone packs my casket with fireworks or other low-explosive compounds.

    At best, it’ll put on one last show - and at worst it’ll give the crematorium staff member a hell of a shock.

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      10 days ago

      If you want to biodegrade, some places now have funeral service companies that will compost you into mulch. Your remains can safely fertilize your favorite garden, park, or forest.

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        10 days ago

        Donate your body to medical research instead of to people trying to murder people more efficiently.

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          10 days ago

          I agree and in the weird story that linked above, that is exactly what the family of the grandmother thought they were doing. They wanted to donate their grandmother’s body for research on dementia but instead the company they used took the body and sent it to the military for use in their bomb testing. The family would have never known without the work of the journalists who researched it all.

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      10 days ago

      My favourite take is from a few old friends of mine in their 70s and 80s … they say do whatever you want … they won’t be there

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    10 days ago

    One ticket to the cheapest way to dispose of a human carcass please! But flaming boat would be a good plan B, it’s true.

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    9 days ago

    Can I get the viking funeral, but skip the boat to reduce costs? Just chuck me into the sea and fire arrows at me untill I sink.

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    10 days ago

    My fantasy is to just grow old until the point where I know my health can’t be helped any more and I just plan my own exit.

    My thought is to just wander into the wilderness, preferably in the winter, go to a place as far away from anyone as possible in the thickest wildest forest I can get to … tell no one what I did or where I went and then just lie down and go to sleep.

    Chances are though … I’ll probably just end up in a home not knowing my name

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      10 days ago

      Heroin OD on some remote overlook in Yellowstone. I know it might be rough on somebody eventually, but that would be the place.

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        10 days ago

        Boooooring. I’m gonna do a fuck load of PCP and die in combat from the chef at waffle house.

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    10 days ago

    As far as I’m aware, it’s not illegal to conduct a Viking funeral, as long as it won’t interfer with shipping.

    Probably wouldn’t hurt to tell the coast guard prior to the event…

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      10 days ago

      In my state, it’s completely legal as long as you inform the fire marshall (?) beforehand. Apparently for many others as well