Sending people off

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I want to be stuffed in a sack and tossed in Portland's drinking water.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I want to be stuffed in a sack and tossed in Portland's drinking water.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I want to be stuffed in a sack and tossed in Portland's drinking water.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Whoever is in charge of the funeral asks if someone wants to speak so presumably the ten year old agreed to it. Whether they did so out of obligation is another thing entirely.

As for myself i want the standard wake funeral and burial. I used to want cremation until i considered the environmental implications. Funeral service is to be nonchristian but some sort of watered down spiritual thing. Getting hammered is obligatory and some whiskey is to be spilled on my grave. Extra points if the wake is arranged such that people think its a party at a bar and theres a half consumed drink in front of my slumped over body with cool kid written on my forehead. Poor bastard who realizes im dead gets one on the house.

Being buried probably has environmental implications, too. I wonder how much embalming fluid has seeped into the groundwater?

I like Tibetan Sky Burials. Feed me to the fuckin' buzzards and make cool stuff out of my bones...oh wait. Can't do that here. 

I guess I don't care. I'll be dead. Hope everybody puts a good buzz on AND NO JEBUS. Live music would be cool though.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Whoever is in charge of the funeral asks if someone wants to speak so presumably the ten year old agreed to it. Whether they did so out of obligation is another thing entirely.

As for myself i want the standard wake funeral and burial. I used to want cremation until i considered the environmental implications. Funeral service is to be nonchristian but some sort of watered down spiritual thing. Getting hammered is obligatory and some whiskey is to be spilled on my grave. Extra points if the wake is arranged such that people think its a party at a bar and theres a half consumed drink in front of my slumped over body with cool kid written on my forehead. Poor bastard who realizes im dead gets one on the house.

Being buried probably has environmental implications, too. I wonder how much embalming fluid has seeped into the groundwater?

I like Tibetan Sky Burials. Feed me to the fuckin' buzzards and make cool stuff out of my bones...oh wait. Can't do that here. 

I guess I don't care. I'll be dead. Hope everybody puts a good buzz on AND NO JEBUS. Live music would be cool though.

Being buried is great, if you're not embalmed.

Embalming fluid is one of the reasons people have to get buried in concrete grave liners these days. It's pretty dumb but it'll make for some great mummies in a few thousand years.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Whoever is in charge of the funeral asks if someone wants to speak so presumably the ten year old agreed to it. Whether they did so out of obligation is another thing entirely.

As for myself i want the standard wake funeral and burial. I used to want cremation until i considered the environmental implications. Funeral service is to be nonchristian but some sort of watered down spiritual thing. Getting hammered is obligatory and some whiskey is to be spilled on my grave. Extra points if the wake is arranged such that people think its a party at a bar and theres a half consumed drink in front of my slumped over body with cool kid written on my forehead. Poor bastard who realizes im dead gets one on the house.

Being buried probably has environmental implications, too. I wonder how much embalming fluid has seeped into the groundwater?

I like Tibetan Sky Burials. Feed me to the fuckin' buzzards and make cool stuff out of my bones...oh wait. Can't do that here. 

I guess I don't care. I'll be dead. Hope everybody puts a good buzz on AND NO JEBUS. Live music would be cool though.

Being buried is great, if you're not embalmed.

Embalming fluid is one of the reasons people have to get buried in concrete grave liners these days. It's pretty dumb but it'll make for some great mummies in a few thousand years.

The other reason is so the grave doesn't turn into a sinkhole when the casket collapses.  When I was running the maintenance bay in a concrete joint in Chicago, one of their sidelines was vaults AND installing/closing them.  The two guys that did the gravedigging/interment were straight out of Gahan Wilson...Their motto was "We're the last guys who will ever let you down."

[The Good Reverend Roger]

On a serious note, when I go, I'm gonna get parted out, and the balance of my carcass will go off to a forensic training "corpse farm".

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I've considered that. A corpse farm sounds pretty cool. 
Getting parted out would be an awesome thing to do for people too...as long as Cheney doesn't get our shit. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

On a serious note, when I go, I'm gonna get parted out, and the balance of my carcass will go off to a forensic training "corpse farm".

That's my plan too.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Whoever is in charge of the funeral asks if someone wants to speak so presumably the ten year old agreed to it. Whether they did so out of obligation is another thing entirely.

As for myself i want the standard wake funeral and burial. I used to want cremation until i considered the environmental implications. Funeral service is to be nonchristian but some sort of watered down spiritual thing. Getting hammered is obligatory and some whiskey is to be spilled on my grave. Extra points if the wake is arranged such that people think its a party at a bar and theres a half consumed drink in front of my slumped over body with cool kid written on my forehead. Poor bastard who realizes im dead gets one on the house.

Being buried probably has environmental implications, too. I wonder how much embalming fluid has seeped into the groundwater?

I like Tibetan Sky Burials. Feed me to the fuckin' buzzards and make cool stuff out of my bones...oh wait. Can't do that here. 

I guess I don't care. I'll be dead. Hope everybody puts a good buzz on AND NO JEBUS. Live music would be cool though.

Zoroastrian, actually.

They have interesting religious reasons for it. Being buried pollutes the earth. Being cremated pollutes fire, and they use Fire as a symbol of Ahura Mazda, so that's kinda no-no. So they make open air towers, and throw the bodies in. Does not pollute the earth. Does not pollute fire or air. Feeds the vultures. It's considered on last act of kindness.

Twid,
As a college project interviewed a Zoroastrian priest. Was surprised I could find one as close as Norwood (10 minute drive from mom's).

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Dakhma, I think they are called. (Towers of Silence)

Checking....



Yep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakhma

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I see at the end of the article, that there is a link to a similar Tibetan "Sky Burial." I apologize. Sometimes lightning does strike twice.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Several native American tribes also do this.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

On a serious note, when I go, I'm gonna get parted out, and the balance of my carcass will go off to a forensic training "corpse farm".

That's my plan too.

Speaking as a maintenance geek, it bothers the hell out of me to think of perfectly good corneas, kidneys, etc, getting thrown in a hole in the ground.

Because nothing gets wasted around here.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

On a serious note, when I go, I'm gonna get parted out, and the balance of my carcass will go off to a forensic training "corpse farm".

That's my plan too.

Speaking as a maintenance geek, it bothers the hell out of me to think of perfectly good corneas, kidneys, etc, getting thrown in a hole in the ground.

Because nothing gets wasted around here.

SALVAGE IT ALL!

The grossest part is the skin, but that's also probably one of the most useful parts.