Death - Are you going to be cremated or put in a box?

To be honest, I don't particularly care about what will happen to my body after I die. I'm an organ donor so, before they do anything else with me, they'll probably cut me up to see if there are any organs worth salvageing for someone else. They probably won't find many of those! Then, I suppose that cremation will be fine, as it'll allow me to contribute faster to the nitrogen and carbon cycle.

I think that it should be the family who decide. They will stay and it should be up to them how they prefer to remamber me. I would not be there anymore and I will not feel box or not.

I most definately want to be cremated!! My reasons are: because it is just my empty shell The planet is getting bogged down with enough things from us never mind our bodies our diseases will go into the ground if we are buried and crops grow from this... You can still have a special place if loved ones need to feel close to you. I'd hate to be buried alive!!! sod that if they make a mistake, at least being burned it'll be over alot quicker...LOL

I definitely would like to be cremated mainly because I dislike the way those left behind are emotionally tied to a grave. I only have one daughter and I'd so hate for her to feel that she'd need to visit my grave or even live nearby. I wouldn't want her to feel obliged in any way - my love for her would be all around and not just in a physical burial plot in a graveyard. I just feel that she'd be more free to live her life and remember me whenever or wherever she was - not just because she was visiting the spot that my physical remains had been placed. She might even feel guilt if she hadn't been for a while - I really don't want to do that to her.

Now how did I ever miss this question??? I want to be cremated.Moslty becouse I don't want to see earthworms,ants or any kind of insects thinking that my head is like a second Disneyland(no metter if I'll play a harp or play with cans full of tar).Even the though of insects crawling all around me....phuuu.. So I want to be cremated.And while they incinerate me..I want to hear (old) irish drinking songs.There!I said it! :))

I personally prefer to be creamated, its less expensive and less grandiose and space saving! besides i can still get to be with my family even if im just ashes. And eversince i was young, this was really my preference... and here in the philippines since our halloweens or as we call it- all souls day, here are spent in the cemetery squeezing ourselves in amongst the traffic and the congested areas, to clean the niches of our loves ones, at least- my family wont have to go through all that inconvenience anymore, they can just spend that holiday at home, lighting a candle for me and praying for my soul...

..in the coffin, why? i just want to differ from fellow myLot members' answer to your discussion.. but seriously, cremation still isn't cheap in our country, only rich people have the means..

Well i am goona be cremated.. and all my hardwork to make body would be turned to ashes

In Italy being cremated does not use much, but I want to be cremata and have written it in the will.

well as per tradition i will be burnt to ashes and may be one of my kids would add my ashes into the holy Ganges.

I think i want be in a coffin,i dont know..some times i wanna be cremated...actually now that you asked, its hard to decide...hahaha

Here in Portugal the normal thing to do when you die is to put the person on a coffin. And that's probably the way is going to happen with me too. But I see in movies people getting cremated and it is also very intense ceremony.

I hope to be cremated, with the ashes spread over some of my favorite places. Or placed in a garden. I dont want to be barried.. it seems so wrong to me.

i rather choose to be cremated, because i believed that my soul is like a smoke that will go up in the heaven. Rather than put in a box and the body is eaten by worms and mix with the soil.

I'm leaning more towards cremation after answering your last question. I really don't see the point in an expensive coffin, burial plot and tombstone. I think I will let my family decide whether or not they want to scatter my ashes or keep them. I would rather be scattered somewhere though.

Honestly I used to want to be cremated but then I saw this movie and had a nightmare that I was cremated alive!! I told my family to find a plain wood box to bury me in.

i dont really feel too comfortable with this type of discussion i feel like its bad luck...so knock on wood...i hope this doesnt mean anything to you all in the near future. i hope that i get buried in my family plot which is in the philippines. i know it is only bones but i want mine to be close to my other family. i think that cremation is really scary i think that its a really scary thought to be nothing but ashes but at the same time its scary to think of my body as a rotting corpse,,,ahhh now im confused,,,lol