I guess I'm a bit traditional when it comes to this but not having the funds for a mausoleum, I think I'd like to be buried next to my Mom. There is room since it is a double plot and no one else is going to use it anyway. Creamation gives me the creeps and I am afraid of fire anyway. One could agrue what the difference is since I'll be dead but I'm making these decisions while I am still alive so next to Mom it is!

I'd pick burial, if they ever develop the technology to bring people back from the dead or if there is something after death(not likely) then it will be handy to have my brain intact.

I'd choose a burial for two reasons-

1) A casket seems to be a very traditional place for a body to lie forever.

2) Burning a body is desecrating it, and I don't want my body being desecrated.

My first choice would be to donate my body to science, but since I must choose burial or cremation, I choose to be buried with a selection of objects:

1. A pull-string to ring a bell above ground.

2. A cell phone.

3. A flashlight.

4. Bottled water.

As you can see, I'm a bit afraid of being presumed dead and waking up in a box six feet underground.

MY preference would be cremation because I consider a burial a waste of money and LAND.

However, I'm leaving it up to my husband, or parents, or children... depends when I die and who I want to make the decision. Knowing my husband and his family, they'd opt to have my buried, being the traditional Christians that they are. My mom would have my cremated. I don't know what anyone else would choose, but I just.don't.care. As long as my organs are donated, I'm otherwise dead and a useless body. :-)

Because I'm a damn hippie, I hope to be composted, which is essentially the same thing as cremation, I suppose. I want my remains to be allowed to enrich soil, so that I can live through the plants that will grow from the nutrients my body provides.

It's embarrassing even to write. I suppose I'll go take some wheatgrass shots now.

I would much rather be cremated. For some reason it seems really creepy and primitive to store your dead flesh in a box. It's like someone keeping a lock of your hair for a long time, but much worse. When we die we are literally just meat and dead flesh so I don't see why you would want people to remember that. Who we are is not our body, it is our consciousness. So after that fades away storing the vessel for your consciousness just seems strange.

There is no reason to burry someone other than religion or tradition.

And not I bad mouth religion, but that's not an environmental choice.

So I will declare envirronmentalism my religion, and tradiional burial against that religion.

Just put me in the ground, no extra fluids, no funeral, no casket.

I'm only 18 and I rarely think about my own death... I'm only posting on this side because the closest person to me that has ever died, my maternal grandmother, was cremated. So I guess I'd do the same? I dunno...