What should happen to YOUR body when you die?

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I would like my body donated to a body farm.
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I want my body to be cooked and served at my own funeral without the attendees being informed, so that everyone can leave with a bit of me in 'em.
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Donate whatever is usable to medicine, the leftovers to science, and then burn me.
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Forget dying. Cryonic freezing, a fund to support that, fast forward to 2X06, and hope someone cares enough to revive.
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On the off chance that I become filthy fucking rich and/or conquer the world, I think a new great pyramid would be appropriate, maybe somewhere in the midwest where it's flat and can be seen for MILES around. Oooooh, and topped with gold! With my body perfectly preserved in an enormous crystal so that I can be an inspiration to all those who would follow in my footsteps.

Realistically, I want my organs donated to science and the rest of me to be cremated, with my ashes spread at the lake where I spent my summers growing up. I also intend to leave enough money behind to have a proper send off, with my friends/family getting drunk and telling stories about me all night.
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SirNitram wrote:Compress me into a diamond.
If you die first, can I wear you as jewelry?

My plan's always been to be cremated and scattered over Hawk's Nest Overlook.
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If I can't avoid the whole death thing I would like my body to be embalmed and placed in a masoleum for public display, like the communists do (you know those communists...they keep their cabbage soggy and their Great Helmsmen crisp).
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Besides the obvious cryogenics answer, I demand to donate my organs to science and be stripped of my flesh, which will be burned and compressed into a diamond which will be imbedded in the forehead of my skull. My entire body would be fosillized, so that millions of years in the future, alien paleontologists can see me in a kickass pose, double flicking them off.
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Salvage whatever you can and send the rest to my enemies.
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A simple burial for me.
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I'm a registered organ doner so any one that needs me can have me, whats left i want cremated put in my girlfriends purse, that way i'll finally get to see some of my money. :D
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Being put in a glass coffin so my followers can worship me untill the end of times
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What should happen to YOUR body when you die?
It shall be resurrected, obviously! Resurrected by my evil followers of doom! And then the forces of darkness will applaud me as I stride through the gates of hell, carrying humanity's head on a pike! As long as there is evil in the hearts of men, or in the hearts of other creatures should men die out, or even if the only evil that's left in the universe exists as an itsy bitsy gene in a primordial bacteria, I shall never be truly gone! Mark my words!


Or actually, that sounds pretty tiresome. Just build a great temple over my sacred remains after a few resurrections. Make sure to make it nice though, so people will pay good money to visit. If they pay real good, they can be allowed to smell my holy and dried out femur!
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Fully mummified, of course.
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Cremation with a simple funeral followed by a rockin' party. I want people to remember me well and what better way to jam that memory into there brain than with such a party?

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I'm looking at either being cryogenically frozen, with the tech hopefully having advanced a bit.

Failing that, I want to be stuffed, and placed in a closet in my old to scare the people buying it into making it a haunted house attraction.
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My corpse shall be hurtled over the enemy fortress wall, so as to spread disease and terror.
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Going to have it preserved and encased in an argon gas container, which will then be sent to Darth Wong with explicit instructions that it be used as a coffee table.

If that doesn't work, I like the 'compression into a diamond' idea.
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Post by Solauren »

pfft, mortals, worried about there bodies after they die.

However, in the event of my death, I want to be buried, and have a bunch of specific items put in with me.

My black track suit, my teddy bear (stop laughing), a hand trowel and 2 hour oxgen tank come to mind.
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I want a solemn ceremony. I also want my will to say for the coffin to be secretly rigged with fireworks and noisemakers. It'd certainly give them something to remember once I'm lowered down there and the sad music reaches a crescendo.

In all seriousness while that would be fun it'd be a bit too assholish so I'd probably just say "Whatever you want to do with it as long as they don't lie at the eulogy."
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I would donate it to science but it will probably be so ravaged by years of diabetes that it won't be very recognizable. :cry:
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Organ donor would be nice, if I have some goodbits left. Then a funeral under 1k. I dont want the living bankrupting for the dead.
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