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How Do You Want To Go Out? Buried? Creamated? Entombed?

posted 7 years ago by R_Kane (15828)
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Continuing with The Big Sleep theme on Moviechat, what's your exit strategy of choice? Buried, the most popular and basic, means you get tossed in a box and the box goes into the ground (unless you're in New Orleans). Creamated means you go up in smoke, and your remains can be scattered, put in an urn be buried, proudly displayed on the mantle, or entombed, say in a mausoleum. Entombed means your remains go into a structure, like a crypt or mausoleum.

I choose creamation. Send me off like King Arthur at the end of Excalibur: adrift on a big boat, my katana, Life-Giving Sword, in my hands, and an archer on the shore ignites me with a flaming arrow.

[–] godewey (16472) 7 years ago

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[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 7 years ago

"I in no way want to be confined in anything."

My feelings exactly! I have informed all of my loved ones that if any one of them fits me out for a casket, I will come back with a vengeance and haunt them all the days AND nights of their lives.

[–] godewey (16472) 7 years ago

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[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 7 years ago

LOL! No joke! I will find my way!

[–] Popcorn Kernel (2368) 7 years ago

Donating my body to a medical school.
My mom died last month and that is what she did, it is a great alternative.
Medical schools need cadavers and maybe the future doctor that learns on your corpse might discover a cure for the disease that killed you.
They pick the body up for free, it is environmentally friendly and it contributes towards knowledge and good in the world.
Burial is so wasteful. Even cremation is polluting. The funeral industry takes advantage of you in your most vulnerable time. More people should consider this option.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 7 years ago

That is a tremendously intelligent, sensitive and kind thought, Popcorn, which is why it never crossed my mind.

My second choice would be to build a large pyramid of solid gold on Boston Common, surmounted with a ruby the size of an ostrich egg, and be entombed inside, mummified. I mean, because, you know, not only is it spectacular, but also because Cruise might make a sequel.

[–] croft_alice (12180) 7 years ago

Good option,mate...but i don't have this option where i live.

[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 7 years ago

Popcorn, That is an excellent idea.

[–] Catbookss (13664) 7 years ago

That's a great idea. Once I've departed from this body, I don't care what happens to it any more than I'd care what happens to my old clothes.

[–] Stratego (30576) 7 years ago

Why is cryonization not an option?

[–] AngularTurnip (3337) 7 years ago

Mix your ashes with a combustible powder ... and become a firework.

[–] Stratego (30576) 7 years ago

Not quite the same experience. One involves heat, the other cold.

[–] MinaVladimir (4081) 7 years ago

Oh, Jesus ! Why did I interpret cryonization to mean you are made into a CRAYON!? I need help...

[–] Stratego (30576) 7 years ago

Sounds pretty awesome, though!

[–] R_Kane (15828) 7 years ago

You new like Walt Disney's head?

[–] yesanything (251) 7 years ago

I have told my heirs I don't give one iota, they can and should do whatever they want.

I have however told them that donating for medical research would be fine.

[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 7 years ago

Cremated! I hear it's warmer!
Seriously, I see no point in the whole big expense of a casket. I also see no point in taking up real estate when buried. Just turn my old bag of bones to ashes and scatter it to the wind.

[–] MinaVladimir (4081) 7 years ago

I have a fear of being buried alive. Also, burnt alive. So I guess I'd prefer to be entombed, so if there is some terrible mistake I can like, get out, hopefully. Or I can install one of those bells people in the olden days had in case someone is buried alive, on the family grave.

But if I am dead dead, I'd like one of those things where they plant a tree on your grave. The circle of life and all that.

[–] missnat (1179) 7 years ago

I want my body thrown into the sea, then sharks/fish can eat my corpse.

[–] godewey (16472) 7 years ago

If I'm walking by a graveyard and hear a bell coming from a grave or tomb I'm gone.

I will not be investigating where it's coming from.
Sorry Mina.

Instead of a bell just get buried with a shovel and pick. That way you don't have to depend
on the kindness of strangers. You can get out yourself.

[–] MinaVladimir (4081) 7 years ago

I don't think being in a casket is ideal conditions for shoveling... But since we're in the 21st century a panic button isn't a bad thing to have.

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[–] MinaVladimir (4081) 7 years ago

Oh, this Lore show looks interesting!

I bet a lot of people were saved by those bells back in the day. But there must have been lots of people burried alive for this expression to become so popular!

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[–] MinaVladimir (4081) 7 years ago

That waiting mortuary is fascinating. I guess if there was a chance that your loved one was still alive, you'll stay with a corps for a few days. But it would be a terrible last memory of them, if they were dead.

I'm sure there were practical reasons behind a lot of the rituals that we do/did surrounding death and burial. Like what R_Kane said in his OP. It's a bit of a Norse funeral, where burning the body makes sense for a cold climate, since it's going to be difficult to dig into the soil. It's all very interesting.

As for "saved by the bell", we all know Wikipedia is a trusted source of information lol. Both sound plausible, but I guess that one would remain a mystery.

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

I want to be engineered into an animatron!!!

[–] db20db (17296) 7 years ago

It's " potter's field " for me. 😆