Morbid or not?

kurt · March 3, 2015

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/03/0...6pLid%3D621184

Way out there,maybe a Oak,Elm,etc.but nothing consumable for me.

Blueaussi · March 3, 2015

I don't think it's morbid at all. I think it's fantastic that we're coming up with all these alternatives to a traditional burial.

Personally, I want to be sent to the Body Farm; but if that is too distressing for any of my family, something like this would make me happy, too.

http://fac.utk.edu/

...but I really want to go to the Body Farm. I would be dead, but I'd still be doing science. How cool is that?

biscgolf · March 3, 2015

We have a large liquid manure (cow) pond on the farm. I would like to have my ashes thrown into it and spread on the fields.

Redbaron · March 3, 2015

I have told my family since I was a teen, pine coffin and traditional funeral, but afterwards plant an oak tree over me. Circle of life and all.

Father'sDaughter · March 3, 2015

The process of embalming is the real problem. They pump bodies so full of chemicals that they then have to put them in steel caskets enclosed in concrete boxes to contain the embalming chemicals.

Mojave · March 4, 2015

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Originally Posted by Redbaron

I have told my family since I was a teen, pine coffin and traditional funeral, but afterwards plant an oak tree over me. Circle of life and all.

Same here, but I'd like to fertilize a Joshua tree.

clkeiper · March 4, 2015

We laugh about the embalming here. I am highly allergic to formaldehyde and tease my family that I will dis appear if they send me to be embalmed. A pine box and day of death burial would be okay if at all possible. No Open casket viewing either. Now that is morbid! "oh she looks so nice" GAG!

Father'sDaughter · March 4, 2015

A while back I watched the PBS documentary, "A Family Undertaking." Until then, I had no idea that in some states you can still do a DIY funeral and burial.

kurt · March 4, 2015

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Originally Posted by Father'sDaughter

The process of embalming is the real problem. They pump bodies so full of chemicals that they then have to put them in steel caskets enclosed in concrete boxes to contain the embalming chemicals.

http://www.us-funerals.com/funeral-a...l#.VPcHwz8utDI

bughunter99 · March 5, 2015

I just want to be cremated and sprinkled in a forest. I like gardening but I do not want to be planted after I am gone.

heirloomtomaguy · March 5, 2015

Death does not bother me because i know where i am going. What happens to my body after i am gone does not matter one bit to me. If i am fertilizer or compost for a tree then good for that tree. Heck you can bury me at sea for all i care.

Mike723 · July 7, 2015

Bump..
I think this is great! It's funny, I always tell my wife that I'd like to be buried under the garden when it's my time to go.. She thinks it's creepy lol.. As Heirloomtomaguy said, I know where my soul will be, so what better place for my body than to feed my earthly passion? Don't think I'd eat the crop for a year or two though lol..

Cole_Robbie · July 7, 2015

The property I'm going to inherit from my dad borders a cemetery with several heavily wooded acres. I'd like to be buried illegally by where the fence is now, and then move it back a little. After the fence is there for twenty years, it will become the new property line, therefore making my burial a legal one.

March 3, 2015	#1
kurt Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Homestead,Everglades City Fl. Posts: 2,500	Morbid or not? http://www.aol.com/article/2015/03/0...6pLid%3D621184 Way out there,maybe a Oak,Elm,etc.but nothing consumable for me. __________________ KURT

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Redbaron Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 4,488	I have told my family since I was a teen, pine coffin and traditional funeral, but afterwards plant an oak tree over me. Circle of life and all. __________________ Scott AKA The Redbaron "Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labour; & of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system." Bill Mollison co-founder of permaculture

March 4, 2015	#7
clkeiper Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: ohio Posts: 4,350	We laugh about the embalming here. I am highly allergic to formaldehyde and tease my family that I will dis appear if they send me to be embalmed. A pine box and day of death burial would be okay if at all possible. No Open casket viewing either. Now that is morbid! "oh she looks so nice" GAG! __________________ carolyn k

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heirloomtomaguy Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: glendora ca Posts: 2,560	Death does not bother me because i know where i am going. What happens to my body after i am gone does not matter one bit to me. If i am fertilizer or compost for a tree then good for that tree. Heck you can bury me at sea for all i care. __________________ “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it."

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Blueaussi Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: South Carolina Zone 8a Posts: 1,205	I don't think it's morbid at all. I think it's fantastic that we're coming up with all these alternatives to a traditional burial. Personally, I want to be sent to the Body Farm; but if that is too distressing for any of my family, something like this would make me happy, too. http://fac.utk.edu/ ...but I really want to go to the Body Farm. I would be dead, but I'd still be doing science. How cool is that?

March 3, 2015	#3
biscgolf Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Virginia Posts: 353	We have a large liquid manure (cow) pond on the farm. I would like to have my ashes thrown into it and spread on the fields.

March 3, 2015	#5
Father'sDaughter Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: MA/NH Border Posts: 4,919	The process of embalming is the real problem. They pump bodies so full of chemicals that they then have to put them in steel caskets enclosed in concrete boxes to contain the embalming chemicals.

March 5, 2015	#10
bughunter99 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: zone 5 Posts: 821	I just want to be cremated and sprinkled in a forest. I like gardening but I do not want to be planted after I am gone.

July 7, 2015	#12
Mike723 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: CT Posts: 290	Bump.. I think this is great! It's funny, I always tell my wife that I'd like to be buried under the garden when it's my time to go.. She thinks it's creepy lol.. As Heirloomtomaguy said, I know where my soul will be, so what better place for my body than to feed my earthly passion? Don't think I'd eat the crop for a year or two though lol..

July 7, 2015	#13
Cole_Robbie Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Illinois, zone 6 Posts: 8,407	The property I'm going to inherit from my dad borders a cemetery with several heavily wooded acres. I'd like to be buried illegally by where the fence is now, and then move it back a little. After the fence is there for twenty years, it will become the new property line, therefore making my burial a legal one.