Interesting ways to be buried/kept

May 25, 2016 10:50 AM

propelledfeline

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My dad is in an urn in my kitchen. It's blue because he liked blue.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I know someone who had her son's ashes made into a firework. They had a celebration of his life and set off the firework. Awesome!

10 years ago | Likes 71 Dislikes 0

I'm going to be a coral reef.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Just take me to the taxidermist

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

We cremated my mother when she died, but were unable to spread her ashes over a tomato plant, as she requested. We just moved she died (1/2)

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

(2/2) and lost her garden. I made a tomato-shaped urn for her ashes, and resides next to her philosophy books. I think she would like that.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I've already instructed my wife to bury me in a shallow unmarked grave in disputed territory.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My grandfather's ashes were launched into space along with the ashes of Star Trek's Scotty actor James Doohan (1/2)

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Granddad's career was aerospace engineering with NASA, and my father was a huge trekkie, so it only felt right. (2/2)

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I've never thought about this, but imagine people waking up from a cryogenic sleep to find out that Donald Trump is the president of the USA

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

it would be like "I could have been a tree. Why did I not choose to be a tree?"

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Taxidermy is the way to go.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I forgot my sauces: http://legacyfunerals.com/burial-methods.html and http:">html">http://legacyfunerals.com/burial-methods.html and http://www.livescience.com/15980-death-8-burial-alternatives.html

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

If you're interested in this shit, read Mary Roach's "Stiff." Pretty funny, awesome ideas.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Thanks, one idea I've thought about is having a black smith make a sword with my ashes infused with it somehow.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

when I die I'd like to be buried so when the zombies come I can join in and fuck humanity

10 years ago | Likes 90 Dislikes 1

If I ever become a zombie, I want machetes duct taped to my hands and to be wearing full body armor

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Family plants me in a tree pot, neglects tree, I die again.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Im on board with a viking funeral.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm assuming it's not a coincidence that the mummification service was started by someone named Ra.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I want to go like Hunter S Thompson

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I loved how Johnny Depp told that story on the Graham Norton Show

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I would tell my family that I was made in to a vinyl in my will and leave just a normal vinyl that has a note that says listen in 6 months1/

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

In addition id "leave" them a tree that was actually me and the vinyl says that i bet you let tree die bitches. Worry more about nature.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Putting dead bodies on a tree, in a warm, moist climate like the Philippines... I dont even want to imagine the smell. No.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

They did it in the warm moist climate of the South US for a while and seemed to cause a gathering of people.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well, sure, but you know, the Filipino guys where probably already dead when they got put there...

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I want to bury my enemies in that urn, then burn the plant. I've killed you twice.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

as a funeral director.. don't get embalmed. everyone has a diaper and we seal any leaks with glue and butt plugs..edema is the devil

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

For real? Please do an informational post!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Seriously?!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

embalming is basically an arms race against bloating and leaking (fluids collecting is edema) hmm ill try and put together a post

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

things like punctures from an IV or anything have to get sealed

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

other fun one is cavity fluid. If you have ever microwaved chicken, so its raw on the inside but cooked

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

on the outside thats how the cavity fluid works. It chemically seals the inside. If you spill any the whole room is evacuated

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Just toss me in the trash." -Frank Reynolds

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Inb4 I'm going to be a dank weed tree bruh

10 years ago | Likes 50 Dislikes 4

Thats what my friends and me gonna do haha

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

We've all seen what happens when you smoke your boys ashes. (Ivory-how high)

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

I want the potted plant one for my husband so I can kill him twice.

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

You win Imgur today! best comment!

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Is being compressed into a diamond then launched into space an option? I want to be a space diamond.

10 years ago | Likes 539 Dislikes 0

You're an expensive dead body

10 years ago | Likes 293 Dislikes 0

Zod is that you?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Off to join the Great Diamond Authority I see.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Twinkle twinkle musematar, fancy S.O.B. you are

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Shine bright like a diamond

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

You're going to confuse the hell out of whatever alien geologist finds you lol

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

And i want to be an space cowboy

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I'd rather be frozen then sent to space for aliens to find and be like "what in the hell is that thing"

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You're already a space diamond to me @musematar you're dazzling and out of this world

10 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Well played

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Oh you *blushes*

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

"Ok Peter, that's enough." -Lois

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Shine on you crazy diamond.

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Damnit you beat me too it

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

To* ugh I'm fucking everything up.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Came here to upvote this

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You want to be a crystal gem don't you

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

There's the comment

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But...the diamonds are the bad guys

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You're very right

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My funeral plans are complex... First, I want to be cremated, but still have a coffin and ceremony. Second, at that ceremony, my coffin 1/?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

will look like The Arc of the Covenant (feel free to toss a john/jane doe in the coffin, I won't care). Third, my cremation should take 2/?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

place will before my "funeral" where my ashes are to be placed inside of decent pens that have "Here lies (my name)" and then passed out 3/?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

among the attendees of the funeral without their knowledge. Left over pens will be placed at banks/shops/anywhere people steal pens. 4/?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Finally, I want my "Arc coffin" to be placed in an old and unkempt cemetery and my head stone to be made to look 100yrs old. If the 5/?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

tech is available, I would like the head stone to produce low lying fog and a hologram of me walking around as a ghost with noises. 6/6

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Just throw me in the trash

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

lmfao I love how direct this is. But it's also sad, you deserve better than that. <3

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hahahaha it was meant to be a joke, it's a quote from always sunny in Philadelphia!!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I should put that on my "to watch" list I suppose!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's so great, very dark humor but it's very funny.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#12 Bomit to his friends: "When I'm gone, I want everyone to know that I was a gangster, through and through."

10 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Original... gansta

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

OG

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Diamond dogs

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

I guess that would make We are the Dead a little on the nose.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Throw me on a boat, push me on the Hudson, and shoot some flaming arrows at me

10 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 0

My husband claims if I really love him I will give him a true Viking funeral.

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Weekend at Bernie's style.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If my wife truly loved me she would do the same for me... :/

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I've told my girlfriend that many times. It's either that or I'm being stuffed by a taxidermist...dress me up for the holidays and whatnot.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Can someone just dump my body in an active volcano?

10 years ago | Likes 722 Dislikes 2

not legally...

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The volcano gods appreciate the virgin sacrifice. Was a little chewy, though.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What if after it becomes inactive? "He didn“t accomplish much in life, but after he died he deactivated a volcano and save a small village."

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Normally they sacrifice a live virgin...

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well I would make a joke about sacrificing virgins but we wouldn't be sacrificing you

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Macho man!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ah so you are the sacrificial virgin that was promised

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Virgin sacrifice style eh?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Only after removing any useful parts

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yep but it will float for a while!

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Illegal.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Riding a shark, strapped with explosives, right? Gotta stay macho.

10 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 1

I recorded that a few days ago for my daughters and I can't stop watching it now lol

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No cause that is only virgins, and I know for a fact a hot and attractive Imgurian such as yourself won't qualify

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Only if you die a virgin, we don't want to upset the Gods

10 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

It was gonna happen anyway

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Quite decent chances for that, considering where we are.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"It's forbidden to throw anything into the volcano."

10 years ago | Likes 92 Dislikes 2

But not dumping..

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Who downvoted this? Do they not know it's from An Idiot Abroad? This is a perfect comment.

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

I'll be chewed out. I've been chewed out before.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Then what's the point of having one?

10 years ago | Likes 67 Dislikes 0

For a ritual or just chuck your body all willy-nilly?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Just chuck it..I don't even care if you miss at first and I'm only halfway in and you have to awkwardly kick the rest of me in

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sure. Let me know when you are dead

10 years ago | Likes 217 Dislikes 0

best reply ever ever ever ever

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Typically soon after they hit the lava.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Emotionally or how a doctor would describe it?

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

The latter I'm guessing since most imgur users are already the former

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Why not do it now?

10 years ago | Likes 86 Dislikes 0

Why wait? Call 8!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Time saver.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Sure why not. You bring marshmallows i bring beer.

10 years ago | Likes 58 Dislikes 0

I'll bring some chairs!

10 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 0

But there's only one chair needed. One person sits. The other's chilling in some lava

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'll grab a guitar

10 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 0

Science. Donate your body to science. Help the world.

10 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 3

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Awesome for him to do that. Really makes a difference so that others in the future don't have to go through the same thing.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Cryo-freezing-stasis-whatever is technically a non-exact science. Along with whatever may allow people to be revived later! It is science!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Chances are your body will just be put in a corpse farm

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Like a cemetery?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well yeah except above ground exposed to the elements

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ahhh .. is that what it's called? The place where they study decomposition. I'm ok with that .. that's science.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Only a small percentage 30% of bodies donated are ever used for scientific study. You have to meet a certain criteria body fat, height etc

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Source:bf is a mortician

10 years ago | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Right. But that's not a reason to NOT donate.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Right, it's not a reason not to donate. But, 70% of bodies donated are just desposed of

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Depends on your country, but either way it's not like they just say "No thanks" and dump you in the bin, you can still be nicely buried etc

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Oh well. At least you tried. Like @ikoart said; they don't just throw you out. Plus, my first go-to is organ donation. Whatever they need.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm not positive, but I think I read in Stiff by Mary Roach that if you are an organ donor, you cannot also donate your body to science

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I could work on the rest, but height? Damn. How tall do I have to be?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's based on need.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If I sense my end is near, I shall kill all tall people, so there's a surplus of that and I, the short one, will be needed.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Username accurate.

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