What do you want done with your remains when you die?

I want to be cremated and have my ashes divided up into two Etch-A-Sketches so my son and his kids have one and my daughter and her kids have one...That way the grandkids will be able to play with me whenever they want LOL....When I told my husband about that a few yrs back, he wasnt entertained but I LOVE the idea! LOL

I would prefer to be cremated or maybe donate my body/organs but i know my family will not accept this. So maybe i will just be buried in a cemetery like the rest.

i prefer to be buried when i die rather than being cremated... i want to be still remembered when i die and i want my children, grandchildren (hopefully i will live long enough to see them) and other family members to visit me in my grave when i already die... i don't know for certain yet actually... this is what i am thinking at the moment... i might change my mind as the time goes by... i just leave it all to God and see what happens... take care and have a nice day...

I want to be buried I do not for any reason want to be cremated! My biggest fear is dying in a fire or being burned by fire so thinking about my body burning at a very high temperature all the way to ashes is my worst fear! Plese bury me.

I want to be buried. I also want to be an organ donor but I want to keep my eyes. I have a fear in the afterlife I want be able to see. I know that sounds crazy but I have always felt this way about my eyes.

I would like to get cremated in a electric furnace in a closed room,it is cheaper, and also this mode doesn't cause much pollution.

I will probably be buried, as it is the custom in my country and religion. The problem of land use is not so big. The custom is for the graves to be re-used after a long time. The former "tenant's" remains are put in a bag and put above the new casket, near the new deadman's head.

I'd like one of those "green burials" that're growing in popularity now. Graveyards which're forests, and such. They just wrap up your body in cloth and your family digs your grave, and they lower you down there, say a few words, bury you, and maybe plant flowers over you. There's always stones around the graves marking where they are...but I've always thought that I'd prefer my remains to be able to return to earth more quickly than to rot seperately in a box in the ground...with chemicles pumped through my body. It just disturbs me..the thought of my body not able to return to the earth until, and if the coffin rots long after what's left of me does.

I will be practical on answering I want to be cremated. I want to save space of land as you said and i want to avoid problems in the future like if i will be buried and my remains will stole or not stole but will be displace and be lost. I hope when i die with the money i will save in the future my loved ones will build a nice place for my remains with my smiling picture.

i want to be encased in lucite and be made a huge paperweight LOL seriously though,i think it would be cool to be preserved in that way.people could study me 200 years from now if they wanted to.

well I am a native by my family history and it is a right that I was able to choose to be cremated. ashes to ashes the bible says so ashes i want to go... and let my spirit soar in the wind...To me It is very morbid to think your remains are buried under the ground to sit and rot and to be food for little bugs and stuff like that. Nothing is eating on me after i am burned to cremation.and the they can scatter my ashes across the plains. to me it just sounds more complete than sitting in a box and rotting away.

hi nancy. after my organs have been harvested for transplant purposes, i prefer to be cremated. i'll have my ashes placed in a nice little box and be placed in an altar in our home. the altar should have some of my pictures and be treated like a shrine. cheers!!!

Well me, I think cremate is quite expensive than to burried? What do you think? I will go to the cheaper way..Lol. Ahmm..Honestly, i like to be burried. I am christian so better on that way. For me its more proper..

I want to be cremated. I don't like the idea of being put into a box and buried. It gives me the creeps. I also think that with population increases, we will start running out of room to bury people. There is a place, I think it's in California, where you can be "naturally buried" if you don't like the idea of being put in a casket. It's a little expensive, though. They wrap you in a linen swath, like they used to in Europe, and bury you without running formaldehyde through your body and taking out organs and such. This gives bodies the opportunity to naturally decompose into the land, also.

I'd prefer to be cremated, personally. Alternately, I'd like to be buried in New Orleans. Although it's crypt burial, within a year you are essentially cremated.

I would prefer to continue being immortal, of course, but if I goof up then I'd prefer nesting in a little plot of land I acquired some time back that is way out "nowhere" and although it is unlikely that the land there will ever run out as most people consider it rather uninhabitable, anything is possible, I suppose. If they ever decide to irrigate the area and make it fit for animal (and plant) life, they maybe someone will plant a garden over me. I do not want to be cremated, but hubby says if I predecease him he will do what he wants with my remains. Hah! I would have him cremated according to his wishes, if it were to go the other way. When pinch comes to shove, I think he would respect my wishes too, but threatens this to motivate me to stay healthy as he would be quite lost without me. He is accustomed to my face...lol.

Well I am still going for the Cremation, I told my kids. To pick out one of my many lovely vases, put the ashes in there and take me to the family lake place, then just throw me in. If they want to keep some of my ashes, they can. But do not get the exspensive urns, again use one of my lovely vases to keep them in. I am also a organ donor, so it makes sense to me, to be cremated.

I still think I would like to be cremated, or even kinda renaissancee burned as I am floating into the ocean.

I've always wanted some kind of crazy end to my body. Lately I've been thinking of some kind of Viking Burial, my familiy could put me on a small wooden boat with a lot of my personal things, set the ship on fire and put it out to sea. I know a guy who wants his children to skin him after he's gone, and place his tattooed skin on their walls as art.