Where does your body go after death

[Capn Jack]

Yuck !
I'd rather be, "Toasted" than turned into, "SOUP" and poured down the drain.

 

[Larry45]

Look into donating your body to OHSU for science and anatomy training. It's free; they even come pick up your body if you're within a certain distance from OHSU. They have certain eligibility criteria, but it's what I'm gonna do if I qualify. They keep the body for a year or two, use it for training, then cremate it and send the remains to whoever you want.

 

[DunRanull]

Yuck !
I'd rather be, "Toasted" than turned into, "SOUP" and poured down the drain.

Air pollution, water pollution, "space" and ground pollution.. what to do with all the dead bodies??? I wonder how they deal with corpses in India (they arent all deposited in the Ganges).. or in red China.. I am uncomfortable in varying degrees with all three "solutions". Deposition of corpses in "abandoned" mine-shafts could be a problem for ground-water pollution, and having some small experience in hard-rock mining I know that as technology advances old mines are sometimes re-opened and remaining low-grade ores are mined, so turning old mines into necropolae may not be a solution in some cases...
Food for thought but not really relevant to a firearms board(?)... hmmmm

 

[Kcee]

I just don't want to end up in one of those FEMA plastic coffins with four other people.

 

[billdeserthills]

Governor Hobbs Legalizes Human Composting As Eco-Friendly Alternative to Burial and Cremation in the State of Arizona
The 'Grandpa in the Garden Bill,' also known as House Bill 2081, has been signed into law by Hobbs. Individuals now have more options for the disposal of their deceased loved ones.

The passing of this legislation will allow individuals to convert their deceased family members into nutrient-rich soil through a method known as human composting. The natural organic reduction process, involves breaking down human remains into compost or soil to use in personal gardens or backyards, rather than being buried or cremated.

Governor Hobbs Legalizes Human Composting As Eco-Friendly Alternative to Burial and Cremation in the State of Arizona | All About Arizona News

Democrat Governor Katie Hobbs has recently approved a law that legalizes human composting. The ‘Grandpa in the Garden Bill,’ also known as House Bill 2081, has been signed into law by Hobbs.

www.allaboutarizonanews.com

 

[Alexx1401]

Governor Hobbs Legalizes Human Composting As Eco-Friendly Alternative to Burial and Cremation in the State of Arizona
The 'Grandpa in the Garden Bill,' also known as House Bill 2081, has been signed into law by Hobbs. Individuals now have more options for the disposal of their deceased loved ones.

The passing of this legislation will allow individuals to convert their deceased family members into nutrient-rich soil through a method known as human composting. The natural organic reduction process, involves breaking down human remains into compost or soil to use in personal gardens or backyards, rather than being buried or cremated.

Governor Hobbs Legalizes Human Composting As Eco-Friendly Alternative to Burial and Cremation in the State of Arizona | All About Arizona News

Democrat Governor Katie Hobbs has recently approved a law that legalizes human composting. The ‘Grandpa in the Garden Bill,’ also known as House Bill 2081, has been signed into law by Hobbs.

www.allaboutarizonanews.com

There is at least one place up my way that has been doing this for a while. You can get the "remains" to take home in bags to garden with or they will dump them in the forest for you.

 

[OneArgus]

The amazing thing is you exist for ever.
Our little pea brains limit our reality, its actually quite funny how we do.
We have a limited life span so we assume we cease to exist.

I am not talking religion. I have to figure I have existed for Eons.
Everything that I came from eventually resulted in the man typing here.
But I did not have a body from thin air, nor a mind from no where.
A tree in a Forest, never dies. As itis part of its past for Eons and will be here Eons more.

The reality is, I am not who I appear to everyone that sees me.
I have existed for a very long time. And so have you.
Going back to that Tree, it came from Eons of matter evolving.
Then it became a thing that could reproduce itself.
A tree in the forest as a Sapling, comes from the very first trees there ever was.
And that tree lives today.
Do you know why you seek your past and ancestry ? Because you want to know where you came from.
People get DNA tests and are oblivious when the result come back what that truly means.
Your ancestors are still alive in you. And even if you never had children that part that made you still exist
even if you never were.

Your Mom and Dad. Whether alive or dead, people say they are still alive in their memory.
Actually they are alive 100% still living in you your cells and your DNA is theirs just passed along.
And this is because our arrogance and ignorance is that to think we are special, and unique. And I make the world different.
No you don't, you make it exactly what it was to be.
And in your body and mind is the same person from long ago.
Live is a miracle and it truly never has to stop.
No not even if the world ends. Were we came from, would just be the future us, evolving once more.
I am 100% at peace if I were to die today. As I know I don't.
As who I am has long existed until now.

You ever notice maybe that Mole that everyone before you had.
Or that certain twitch, or motion you do others did?
Well that is them. So what you passed along will also be that future.
But the individual is not needed for the roots of your life to exist.
They just will. And that the laws of Nature and Physics are proof. Not just some ramblings in a post.

 

[Capn Jack]

Heavy man. Heavy.

I just figured we got rid of the bodies so as to not stink up the place.

 

[357 MAX]

i like the idea of natural burial. i don't want to be in an expensive casket in a vault sealed off from nature, i would rather rot away in nature, where i have always been most at home. let me return to the earth. i guess i will be cremated and have my ashes scattered in a favorite hunting spot. my nephew in Idaho knows exactly where i want to be. in the hills where he and i both hunted for many years.

 

[ditchtiger]

I thought that in India they were placed on a flat roof for the vultures to devour

 

[Hop Sing]

This song may offer some direction to folks.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM9FQIvX8l0

 

[ditchtiger]

This song may offer some direction to folks.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM9FQIvX8l0

Good find!

 

[Nosferatu]

I just don't want to end up in one of those FEMA plastic coffins with four other people.

If one of those people was Salma Hayek, I'd be OK with it.

 

[Slice]

nearing my 75th birthday i am thinking about what to do with my remains after i die. i don't like the idea of an expensive funeral, or creamation. so what are my other options? any ideas?

I think you can bury yourself on your own property and all property taxes stop. The state won't tell you this but you can get a funeral director to certify your death certificate and your family can bury you on the property. Then, no more property taxes are paid. If you sell the property you have to move the body/bones or provide a way for the body to be visited like in a cemetery. You can look up what's required in your state.

 

[boattail]

The wife and I are mulling over either simple burials or cremation. We are also try to decide to be buried in my small home town cemetery that has green lawn or an old pioneer cemetery near where we live now. The pioneer cemetery is tiny and has no grass. I really like the idea of this old cemetery as they only have a limited space for new burials. The oldest part is reserved for families of the pioneers. The annex sits in front of the old part. It's a private cemetery out in the middle of nowhere and most people that visit do so to see the old graves dating back 200 years.

 

[357 MAX]

i could be buried in a small town cemetary in Idaho where my dad grew up. but i have little conection to that place. my dad bought the plots for all of us when my oldest brother died, my dad & mom and my oldest brother are buried there. 2 other brothers & 1 sister were creamated and remains were buried there. i like the idea of being there with my family but, i want my remains left in the open air to return to the soil and feed the new plant growth for the deer to feed on. i have harvested a few deer in that place so best to complete the cycle!

 

[alv7722]

Are you a veteran by any chance. If so you will get a free burial and plot in a VA cemetery.

 

[357 MAX]

yes i am a veteran but made it clear i don't want to be buried.

 

[oremike]

yes i am a veteran but made it clear i don't want to be buried.

If you get cremated you can go in a nitch or in the ground, I'm going in the nitch in a wall at the Roseburg National Cemetery when it's my time.

 

[Slobray]

nearing my 75th birthday i am thinking about what to do with my remains after i die. i don't like the idea of an expensive funeral, or creamation. so what are my other options? any ideas?

Have you thought about feeding the next generation...............?

View: https://youtu.be/b2aH9tu4s30?si=U0--PIAoJOa2hR6n



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