They've done this a few times in Vikings. Always amuses me that it keeps drifting in the right direction out to sea. What if you had an unfavorable wind pickup or something? Next thing you know you have this burning raft coming back at you with a skeleton on it that wants to park on your beach.
I think you're supposed to do it on a river...
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Cremation is so selfish. The building they cremate you in could be better used as a cancer research Center or maybe even an AIDS cure research center. Very selfish of you fuzz.
That doesn't make much sense as an argument. We need to get rid of bodies somehow, and a crematorium has a pretty small footprint. The biggest issue is the amount of energy they use, so I'm open to other options that don't require a permanent patch of Earth reserved for me.
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Back in the day when I was very young a guy was going door to door selling burial plots for a nearby cemetery. My parents bought one to share and one each for my brother and I obviously not thinking ahead that one day we may have our own lives and want to take care of our own wishes.
My Dad is already in his half and the plots for my brother and I are still waiting for us. So I have that option but won't likely take advantage of it.
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Back in the day when I was very young a guy was going door to door selling burial plots for a nearby cemetery. My parents bought one to share and one each for my brother and I obviously not thinking ahead that one day we may have our own lives and want to take care of our own wishes.
My Dad is already in his half and the plots for my brother and I are still waiting for us. So I have that option but won't likely take advantage of it.
Are they beside each other or one either side of your parents? I bet you could sell them if they're beside each other. Put 'em on kijiji in the real estate section lol.
I don't care what happens to my body when I'm gone but I hate the idea of taking up valuable real estate. I've asked my wife to have me cremated and put my ashes into a glass jar and keep it in the bedroom so I can keep tabs on her. �� I've already written a brief life history that someone can read at my funeral. It reflects my personality. ��
If you are going to waste money on a funeral, casket, burial spot, why not really waste the money. I want to be encased in carbonite, then hanged on the wall in the living room.
If you are going to waste money on a funeral, casket, burial spot, why not really waste the money. I want to be encased in carbonite, then hanged on the wall in the living room.
I proposed a business idea to a buddy of mine that runs a line-X franchise where they could line-X a corpse in any position they want and it would be like carbonite.
He thought it was grim, I think it makes millions.
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Cremation. Burial seems so selfish. You cost your estate to buy a plot of land for god knows how long, then you rot away taking up space. I bike through a cemetery to work every day. What a colossally useless thing that is. It could be a park for people to play in, or additional housing space in the inner city, or whatever. But no. We've got a massive hunk of uselessness. About the only benefit is it is a home for rabbits and coyotes.
You want people to have a memorial for you? Fine, sprinkle your ashes somewhere meaningful to you, leave a little plaque if you can. It will be much more pleasant to visit than a vast expanse of other rotting corpses.
Burials are a huge waste. Lots of wasted land and super expensive. My dad died four years ago and we cremated him. It was significantly cheaper. We were fortunate enough that his brother died about 8 years before him and he had a traditional burial. They buried him deep enough for a second burial on top. We were able to bury his urn on his brother's plot for a couple hundred bucks although we spent $2000 or something for an addition to the headstone/monument.
Cremated, ashes spread in nature. If living family members want a little bit kept somewhere, cool. But please don't turn my fricken ashes into a diamond.
