My husband's gonna throw me in the compost.

Karen

My husband and I want to do the same, and there are increasing numbers of mortuaries and cemeteries that provide for this. You just have to search them out.

That tree will be a beauty.

Carol

I want to be hollowed out, filled with quick-dry cement and dropped on people who were mean to me when I was alive.

As a farmer, I want to be buried only two feet deep so I can still get my handout.

or

I want to be buried with my butt sticking out of the ground so everyone can just kiss my a$$.

or

I want to be buried with my butt sticking out of the ground so it can be used as a bike stand.

Haven't decided which yet.

Lloyd

Karen - too bad the gov't is involved, or it could be that easy.

cjlambert,
Just how is the gov't involved?
I thought method of 'disposal' after death was a matter of personal determination via Will, not a 'probate' issue.

Are you saying that if I choose to be buried (and the method/means) - that I must comply with certain government regulations? How so? Mortaility composting is an accepted practice nowadays for cows and horses - people can't be too far behind...

Personally, if buried, I want my pine box to have lots of holes in it, and be filled with my OWN compost, and be buried on my property with a fruit (or nut) tree planted on top. Haven't figured out which yet, since my DW tells me I'm a 'fruitcake' sometimes - and 'nutty' other times...

Or if cremated, then my friends to make a layered compost pile and spread my ashes however they want to and I can still push up daisies. Probably a better idea, 'cause I don't like cold, which is why I live in south Texas.

And if Lloyd gets planted like he wants to, in cold Manitoba weather, he otta we flappin' at the sun for a long time - unless they got 'mean' gophers up there...
But I don't know about the bicycle rack thing, Lloyd - ya gotta think about how them tire tracks would look...

Gosh - gonna be a long winter - way too much time on the computer already...

Soilguy.

Sorry... didn't mean to touch a nerve. Just seems like the gov't is too involved in our basic lives to leave something like this to our choice. My bad. I totally agree that the disposal of our remains should be our decision, and I definitely don't want to be embalmed with all the associated ugliness. I vote for finding a good place to go, and leaving it there. I would only hope it were a bit warmer than now.

When my father died, a few years back, I had him cremated and put his ashes into my garden.

Well, my sister who I haven't talked to for 20 years, wanted some of his ashes sent to her. Since I had already put them into my garden, I took some other ashes out of my Weber Grill and sent them to her. She wrote to me saying his ashes smelled like barbecued ribs. I wrote back and said that was his last meal.

burial is so American, as is the whole embalming stuff, my dad died on the 19th Dec cremated on 31st, no embalming..just kept cold and then..., my friend Julie was in a willow coffin, cremated, just what we do in the UK,, my mum also was cremated. and me when my time comes,I want to be cremated, then I want to be put in a fire work and set off over a beach I loved as a child :-)

I want to be dumped in a far off woods, so no one will find me and I can return to the cycle of life asap.

seeing as that's prolly not going to happen, I'd settle for the pine box under a tree idea.

My wife tells me every so often: don't spend a lot of money on an expensive casket, I'm not going to care.

I know there are gov't regulations here in BC Canada that only allow burial on "land designated as a place of interment". Falls under "consumer protection" guidelines. While I prefer limited gov't intervention in my life there are obvious reasons for this.

It's apparently OK to scatter cremains anywhere with the land owner's permission as they are not a "health hazard". I've told DH to dump my ashes in the compost. He has a bizarre sense of humor so said I can just flush his. *rolleyes* You're not getting that wish, Honey!

I have a friend who when he dies wants to be sold at the flea market. I'd like to be buried the way we buried our beloved dog: laid in a hollow in the woods at the edge of the garden, a piece of burlap over him, compost overtop of that, then straw, scattered with seeds of foxgloves, thyme, sweet williams. And he's next to a red osier dogwood - he was the sort of dog who liked visual puns. Three years later that is a very nice spot, lush growth. The slight mound has settled to just below ground level.

"he was the sort of dog who liked visual puns."

That's the funniest thing i've heard all day. Thanks.

I thought drafted72's comments pretty entertaining too.

Cremation for me. I don't mind worms in the garden, but not on me...

Pam

You might google "green burial".

Here in Texas, you can still be buried on family land, but I'm not sure what the restrictions are (not where you'd pollute a waterway, for instance).

My brother is to wrap me in a quilt & bury me in the woods, not too deeply.

& if he goes before his wife, she's going to have him stuffed & sit him in his recliner, beer in one hand, cigarette in the other, so she can have company.

(The remote will, finally, be in her own hand.)

Thanks yall

Lloyd and Drafted72----very funny ---made my day and reminded me of a special aunt we used to keep on the refrigerator downstairs .......until the little ones got her down and took her for a ride in their wagon !!

I'm sure she had a great trip and enjoyed the ride immensely ----JB

please don't bury me down in the cold cold ground
i'd rather have them cut me up and pass me all around
give my knees to the needy, the blind can have my eyes
bury my mouth way down south, and kiss my ass goodbye!

(vintage john prine)