How do you want to be buried | A list of burial types

[Emerita]

Traditional Burial Methods

Casket: A container for burial.
Home Burial: Burying a body on private property.
Hanging Coffin: Coffins suspended on cliffs or trees.
Urn: Container to hold ashes.
Scatter Ashes: Any location for scattering ones remains.


Cremation and Related Methods

Cremation: Reducing a body to ashes through burning.
Aquamation: Using alkaline hydrolysis to reduce the body to ashes.


Natural and Eco Friendly Methods

Recompose: Transforming remains into soil through composting.
Tree Burial/ Planting: Biodegradable container for tree growth. Or using ashes as fertilizer.
Coral Reef Burial: Somehow ashes are made into a reef structure.
Sea Burial: Scattering ashes or burying a body at sea.
Infinity Burial Suit: A suit that nourishes soil.
Loop Living Cocoon: A biodegradable cocoon.
Exposure: Leaving the body in nature to decompose.
Biodegradable Urn: An urn that decomposes naturally.
Burial Pod: A pod that encases remains.


Preservation and Scientific Methods

Mummification: Preserving a body through embalming and drying.
Cryonics: Preserving a body at low temperatures for potential future revival. (Obviously not this one)
Plastination: Replacing body fluids with plastic for educational purposes.
Dissolution Promession: Using liquid nitrogen to break down a body.
Donate to Science/Organ Donation


I Don't Know What Category

Painting: Mixing ashes into paint for artwork.
Firework: Incorporating ashes into fireworks.
Ornament/Art: Creating memorial items from ashes.
Space Burial: Sending ashes into space.
Vinyl Compression: Turning ashes into a vinyl record.
Glass Keepsakes: Mixing ashes into glass work.
Diamonds: Creating synthetic diamonds from ashes.
Columbarium: A monument which stores the remains
Tattoo: Ashes incorporated in the ink of someone's tattoo.
Pencils: Ashes are made into about 240 pencils.
Frisbee: Ashes made into disk.
Bullets: Ashes mixed into ammunition.


Hypothetically if you had the choice of any of these not worrying about logistics which would you pick?

I would be a firework but in reality Im just being cremated

 

[Kali_Yuga13]

This is a great list!

I didn't know about the Infinity Burial Suit. I guess it's somewhat affordable at $1500 but I think it's more about buying the idea since fungus and spores are everywhere. Same with the Loop Living Cocoon but holy crap that thing's expensive at $4,500 for a box made of mushrooms. These methods are more about posturing one's environmental values imo. Being buried in a pine box or just in the dirt is virtually free. I like tree burial or exposure.

A coupe other methods along the lines of exposure are

Tibetan Sky Burial: Remains are aid out in the open at high elevation for vultures to dine on.
Viking Funeral: Body is laid to rest on an combustible raft which is set adrift in a body of water. A flaming arrow is shot at the raft to set it ablaze to partially cremate the body and the rest goes into the water as the raft is consumed.
Volcano: Jump into volcano and become one with the gods.
Hot Spring: If the spring is hot enough, the body is not recoverable.
Cave Burial: Going so deep into a cave so that the body is virtually irretrievable.

Some of the nature-based ones are both the method of death and burial. They're briefly more violent but often certain. Good for those that don't want a funeral.

Edit - Added additional nature methods.

 

[TheShadowQueen]

I don't care what happens to me but turning into a vinyl sounds cool

 

[darksouls]

because I am against animal testing
I would prefer to donate my body to science
but that is very expensive
and it is tied to many conditions
animal rights activists claim that this could reduce animal testig
you can read more about it on PETAs website

 

[astonishedturnip]

My wish is for my ashes to be scattered at Mont Saint-Michel, the place I felt the closest to some higher power. idk if it's legal or not, do it in secret maybe, but I don't want anyone hanging onto me or making anything out of me, lol. I was used enough in life!

 

[33K1LLM3]

I don't want to be attached to those who hurt me anymore, so I want Cremated and my ashes flushed down the toilet. I appreciate the amount of effort you put into your post though <3

 

[psp3000]

cremated and scattered

but it would be cool to be used for a tree or a nutrient rich seed and nut block for wildlife or to have one of those sky burials

I just looked up that organization that's supposed to turn your ashes into food for wildlife and unfortunately they allegedly gave people (families and loved ones of the deceased) back fake ashes (of what was supposed to be left over after the process) ?

 

[Scythe]

Sky burial, I wish to return at least a little of what I took from nature. And having my remains become a part of a vulture or maybe wolf is nice. I respect both animals.

The ink tattoo one also sounds cool, but I don't have anyone who'd agree to this.

Maybe it'd be nice to have some of my ashes mixed with a USB containing my life's work. The outer coating on USBs are plastic, it should be possible.

The artwork one sounds cool though. I actually know someone who can paint. most of the misc category, I've never heard of those and they're all very cool.

 

[nobodycaresaboutme]

I don't care even if my body would be eaten as meat because then I'm not in the world anymore

 

[L9my]

using ashes as fertilizer

If possible in my favourite park or just scatter my ashes there i don't really care which one

 

[Dark Moon]

Definitely cremation and scatter ashes. I don't exactly want my body to be a decaying corpse that gets eaten by insects by traditional burial. Also, my relatives died by scatter ashes and cremation and I do want to just be with them in a sense of having my ashes scattered with them under a tree.

 

[bankai]

I want cremation since I like the purity of fire. Fire literally turns us to ashes. And you know what they say? Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

I don't really want my body to decompose somewhere. I know it doesn't really matter, but,yeah.

Those categories are crazy. I was thinking about sending my ashes into space, but I don't want to add to the ridiculous amount of space pollution that already exists

I think most likely I would choose to cremate myself to ash 1st and then since you said logistics isn't a problem,I'll choose some other method but not sure what.

 

[Emerita]

Those categories are crazy. I was thinking about sending my ashes into space, but I don't want to add to the ridiculous amount of space pollution that already exists

I think most likely I would choose to cremate myself to ash 1st and then since you said logistics isn't a problem,I'll choose some other method but not sure what.

The other category is so very odd Imagine being turned into a frisbee, who would want to be thrown around like that? I feel like a grieving family might prefer a boomerang, you know so the deceased comes back to them?? But then again, maybe they wouldn't want that if they're opting for a frisbee…

 

[NoPoint2Life]

Ok this kind of depressed me. As usual since I don't have much of an interest in anything or any goals I feel like most of this doesn't apply to me. It's not the first time I've realized this though. I definitely wanna be cremated. But after? I used to think I just wanted them thrown in the ocean because I didn't care but now I realize if I'm really being picky, I don't even want them outside because I hate the outdoors!

If something were to happen at this moment, of course my parents would take them in an urn . That sounds OK to me sitting inside as usual lol. But it gets tricky after they pass and who takes care of everything and where do the ashes end up?

because I am against animal testing
I would prefer to donate my body to science
but that is very expensive

I am absolutely shocked to hear that is expensive. Do you happen to know why? Smh

 

[bankai]

I feel like a grieving family might prefer a boomerang,

You're not going to believe,I exactly considered a boomerang as well. I was watching a lot of boomerang videos Few weeks ago on YouTube.They would use these special ones on large open fields that would just go massive distances and then come back. It was pretty cool.


I watched frisbee ones as well but they always had dogs bring them back

Not sure I would want to be stuck in a dog's mouth in the afterlife.

 

[darksouls]

Ok this kind of depressed me. As usual since I don't have much of an interest in anything or any goals I feel like most of this doesn't apply to me. It's not the first time I've realized this though. I definitely wanna be cremated. But after? I used to think I just wanted them thrown in the ocean because I didn't care but now I realize if I'm really being picky, I don't even want them outside because I hate the outdoors!

If something were to happen at this moment, of course my parents would take them in an urn . That sounds OK to me sitting inside as usual lol. But it gets tricky after they pass and who takes care of everything and where do the ashes end up?




I am absolutely shocked to hear that is expensive. Do you happen to know why? Smh

it is so expensive because the remains have to be disposed of
so you have to pay for the funeral
the cheapest funeral in Germany is an anonymous burial
that costs 2000 euros
it is really a dilemma

 

[JesiBel]

Cremation

(+ Pencils) Wow, I never would have thought I could become one of the objects I collect. If I can be of any use with that 'new form', great lol

 

[yeahyeahyeahfan]

I'd really like to become a tree, both because I'd be able to provide so much while taking so little, and because I like the subtle Dante's Inferno symbolism.

Unfortunately my research tells me it's expensive and difficult, and I'd rather make things as easy as possible on those dealing with my corpse. So cremation it is, with an instruction to throw my ashes away ASAP.

 

[neurotoxic]

I have everything set up for cremation, and for nobody to have to deal with the ashes other than the funeral home. If I had my way theyd just be scattered and forgotten or disposed of, no place to visit, but an urn in a random spot in a cemetery was the best I could do. no fuss, I dont want anyone having any control over that shit but me y'know?

 

[Emerita]

I have everything set up for cremation, and for nobody to have to deal with the ashes other than the funeral home. If I had my way theyd just be scattered and forgotten or disposed of, no place to visit, but an urn in a random spot in a cemetery was the best I could do. no fuss, I dont want anyone having any control over that shit but me y'know?

Yeah I already have planned and paid for that stuff like cremation and during the planning I was able to ask for no funeral or obituary which is nice to control.

 

[Gustav Hartmann]

I would choose plastination, but unfortunately this is not compatible with suicide. In the end it will probably be excarnation, because I plan to hang myself in a remote forest. When my corpse is finally found, only a skeleton is left.

 

[R. A.]

I Don't Know What Category
Diamonds: Creating synthetic diamonds from ashes.
Frisbee: Ashes made into disk

man i fucking loled especially these being in the same "category". jesus, i never thought of being made into something but who wants to be a goddamn frisbee? is this common?!

simply, i want to be chucked into a hole in some healthy dirt and a fruit tree planted right on top immediately. i don't know which, but i like the idea of becoming a plant and then also becoming its fruit which will be eaten by many things and carried away. thus i become an omnipresent god.

 

[Bxtra]

Buried vertically to save space and plant some trees on my head lmao

 

[Forveleth]

Tree burial for me. I think it would be cool if graveyards were actually forests. This way we get nice trees and you also still get the bonus of a grave marker.

 

[bankai]

I considered diamonds. But you know how they say diamonds are forever? So I'm scared. When the time comes, I want to be gone

In all honesty, I've decided. Cremation and turning into ashes like I have specified previously. And then I want my ashes to be mixed with ash in a volcano

 

[ImnotCTB]

I wanna be a gun shaped like this

So that I can still be useful and look good after death.

 

[Britney Spears]

For my part, I don't want any burial. But a dead person has no opinion; what they do with my body doesn't matter to me as long as I'm dead. That's all I want

 

[elaineparks]

Cremated and scattered. I don't want to be buried.

 

[Custos]

I think being buried is extremely selfish, you tie your family to that place for the rest of their lives. And you indefinitely take up some land. Same goes for any mourning place. If you must be buried, have an unmarked grave somewhere that no one knows about.

 

[Imeavie]

Honestly I would prefer being buried in the woods I grew up in on my grandparents property.

I don't need anything special, just a nice spot in the woods with a modest grave stone. I would prefer to have a natural stone from the woods just be engraved with my information.

When the time comes that no family is left, I'll be forgotten, and truly one with the woods again.

With the land being a massive hill attached to a branching creek from a protected river, I don't have to worry about my patch of woods being developed over. I will be one with the woods forever.