There are some parts of Australia where you (well, your relatives) need to renew your rights over a grave after a period of several years. It eventually will fail to be renewed. It's not enough, but that'd help, I think.
I want to be cremated, then have my ashes given to a terrible drug dealer and used to cut coke or something.
Neither...? Just put it to good use and preferably for a purpose that I don't oppose. Or being blown to bits so that there is no body to deal with. Seriously though, I would prefer cremation between the two, but it doesn't matter much. I'd rather no one bother about it.
I won't care what's done to my body once I'm dead because I'll be dead, but I guess if I had to think about it... I'd want to be cremated. Like blueberrymuffin said, cemeteries are a waste of land (and so are golf courses imo), and life belongs to the living. Plus, ironically, being cremated follows the religious beliefs of some of my favorite fiction, because they say "we don't bury our dead to be left to rot in a cold and dark grave, we burn them so that they may return to the ash from whence they came"
Cremated, and scattered in space. In the absence of a reasonable way to get scattered in space, I'd like to be scattered on a mountain. I don't like the idea of burial, and anyway, it seems pretty selfish, given the burial space problem, and the fact that I'd have no further use for my body. Oh, and they can take my organs before if they want to.
Who cares!!! You're dead!!! Burial is so unsustainable! Huge tracts of land that can have no further use because we get so strung up over death! Seriously turn me into fertiliser! How can anyone think burial is a good option these days! Seriously! For such a seemingly unimportant issue it really riles me up :/
I dont really care, I wont even know anyway. I prefer the idea of cremation though, getting buried takes up space.
Yes, diamonds as well as minerals like coal are from the remains of once living things, that changed tdue to immense pressure asnd temperature conditions. Interesting thread, i guess its often linked to a persons religion. In hinduism, cremation is preferred since it is hygienic, returns the elements and is seen as the last offering that the person can make to God (the remains of their material body). Also, land is fast running out and many cities are looking to dig up graves, bury them deeper and have loved ones buried above existing ones.
Yeah but you think about all the family, friends and genealogists like me who go to cemeteries for research or to pay respects cemeteries are valuable pieces of history. I love them for the history aspect. I however want to be cremated and ashes spread throughout the country.
I have a burial plot in the same cemetery as my mom, dad, uncle, aunt, sister, brother, cousins, friends, and etc. are but I'm opting for cremation and my ashes being placed in my plot. I have family buried from east to west and then some...I don't like to think of the ones who got scattered...WOE!