To "disappear" for real

[simpler-fy]

Is it important that your body be found? Your actions be clear? I've always thought that if one must take their own life because either the state will not or cannot help them or because they have reached their absolute limit of suffering - that they do so in a way that minimizes the impact on those that choose to live. We do not drive into oncoming traffic because we could hurt someone else. Nobody wants to jump and land on somebody or traumatize train and truck drivers with their death. I personally would rather not even have to curse someone with finding my corpse hung or shot. Stranger or family.

So what is the reality of disappearance? Is it the right thing to do? Or fundamentally abhorrent? Could you just wander into the Alaskan Bush or the Darien Gap with a firearm and really never be found? Do you really want to disappear?

 

[Pluto]

The big issue with this is legal. An individual is not officially dead (for the purposes of legal wills, estates, etc.) for many years after disappearing. Other than that, I would love to do that and remove the ethical issues around traumatising people.

 

[EdibleGasMask]

Look at the profession of a mortician, they aren't just putting makeup and embalming a body just to put it in the ground. They go through all of that effort to have the body be preserved long enough for relatives to come make the flight/drive over to grieve and have closure. Another thing, most people who lose loved ones to bodies of water or certain locations where they don't find a body, loved ones often say "I still see them there" because they never got closure from putting their loved ones to rest so to speak.

 

[simpler-fy]

Look at the profession of a mortician, they aren't just putting makeup and embalming a body just to put it in the ground. They go through all of that effort to have the body be preserved long enough for relatives to come make the flight/drive over to grieve and have closure. Another thing, most people who lose loved ones to bodies of water or certain locations where they don't find a body, loved ones often say "I still see them there" because they never got closure from putting their loved ones to rest so to speak.

I understand why it's important to some people. I have always detested the idea of my stinking body being stuffed with chemicals and preserved. I'd hate for my family to have to foot the bill for some corpse retrieval.
As far as legal ramifications go, I've no assets to speak of and no money. No fighting over this guy. My intended method doesn't preserve organs either, unfortunately.