What do you want done (seriously) with your mortal remains? (Check all that apply.)

i fluctuate between wanting to be cremated or buried. i would like to be buried if my body was allowed to go back into "nature" ie: become nutrients to replentish the earth. unfortunately, because of health reasons, they line graves so you can't leach back into the ground. sigh.

I'm planning to do a funeral pyre for you Jen.

It doesn't matter a whole lot to me personally, but I suspect a traditional Jewish burial will mean the most to the people who care most.

the old ways are the best

shot into space is pretty cool...

Outside of organs donated it doesn't matter to me. Leave me on the street, give me to some necrophilliac, i don't care, it's not me anymore.

If Science wants my body, she can have it. After that, whatever leaves the smallest residue.

Organs donated, of course, and cremated (but, PLEASE, don't throw my ashes to the sea, the space, the return to the nature, or a piece of stupidity like this...) I'm sorry, Laurel (i wrote this before reading your answer)

I Don't care...

I'm with Jen. Rip out my organs for transplant, then dance around my pyre.

I really don't much care, frankly. I hope that those who have this task are creative with my remains.

Actually, I don't plan on dying. If neccessary, I'd like to be frozen and defrosted later (always did like leftovers...) If I do get whacked (accident, murder, etc) so badly that I couldn't possibly be brought back, then I'd like to have my organs donated and bury the rest (no nasty preservatives - let me compost!)

My goal in life is to experience everything, therefore, I picked them all.

I would loved to be put in a mousoleum, but it is to expensive, so I am going to be cremated.

Cut me up and tear me apart, baby!

Hmm, depressing topic. I always thought that I would like to go like the monks did. They would hollow out a tree and then be placed into it. As their body would decay, it would feed nutrients to the tree. Kind of strange maybe, but none the less what I find appealing. Returning to nature literally. But if I couldn't have that, then go ahead and shoot me into space. Maybe some aliens will find me and resurrect me.

I'd sell my body to the highest bidder and distribute the profits along with the rest of my estate. Presumably, this would encourage a useful application of whatever was left, and a cheap disposal of what isn't useful.

I'm split between cremated and donated to science. I really don't like to think about it much. My descendants can figure this one out.

When I'm being reasonable my answer is "whatever will give those people who care about me the most sense of comfort and closure." I understand that my death is for them to comprehend. But I have irrational moments, when I image myself *feeling* that which is done to my remains. My body is so integral to my living self that the I that constructs abstract, logical, concepts cannot control this idea. I could not answer the question.

none of the above....placed in a glad bag and tossed in a dumpster

Cremated then buried. Shot into space would be neat, but rather expensive (what is it $2k a gram?)

I picked shot into space..(ashes spread over the whole planet on re-entry) but i'd rather be buried in an unmarked grave without a coffin and not shot full of preservatives. basically, let me rot and go back to the earth as fast as possible.

Whatever is done with my mortal remains, I'd prefer it weren't done seriously... or at least, that it weren't done solemnly. But honestly, I'd want the people I cared about most to do with my remains whatever would make them feel best about my death. I suspect at the moment burial would maximize that, but it could change.