Death

[MaryKB]

Oh yeah and in the highly-likely outcome that I die and don't have a freezer fund, I'd like to be cremated. Does the US have vaults of cremation urns the way they do in Japan? Or do they only have spots at regular, above-ground cemeteries?

I want to be cremated too, it feels so wrong to me to pollute the earth with my desiccating carcass.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Natural burial might be a greener alternative

 

[PPQ_Purple]

Honestly I don't really care what happens with my corpse after I die. It's not like I'll be using it. But I am against cremations on principal simply because it deprives future archeologist and anthropologists of insights into our days.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Honestly I don't really care what happens with my corpse after I die. It's not like I'll be using it. But I am against cremations on principal simply because it deprives future archeologist and anthropologists of insights into our days.

Post more and leave a treasure trove for digital archaeologists!

 

[Hygro]

@Narz out*
Fractal out* further. Just tested and yes it was autocorrect’s fault

 

[Snerk]

Regarding my remains: if I were to exclude rational and practical thinking and just emphasise what I'd feel would be the best demise of my corpse, then I'd like to be laid to rest on the ground somewhere out in the wild, far away from humans. I like the idea of becoming nutrition for birds, bugs, plants and whatnot. Perhaps a fox or a wolverine would come and gnaw on my bones. I'd be a part of something bigger and that somehow feels less lonely and more comforting than the more pragmatical disposal by cremation or burial.

 

[Hygro]

Honestly I don't really care what happens with my corpse after I die. It's not like I'll be using it. But I am against cremations on principal simply because it deprives future archeologist and anthropologists of insights into our days.

I hope you have a very active twitter.

 

[Snerk]

In past lives, @Snerk and @Synsensa were each rival Viking warlords. One has always slain the other, and it's always been a rivalry regarding the affections of an exotic woman. The time is drawing near, where this epic historical cycle must come to its natural conclusion once again.

I think the only real danger in a fight between me and Syns would be to any onlookers dying of laughter.

 

[MaryKB]

I think the only real danger in a fight between me and Syns would be to any onlookers dying of laughter.

WARNING: Language

 

[Birdjaguar]

My personal belief is that there is only one true consciousness (God), and that this being is self aware, and also is all matter and energy. Not part of the universe, but its entirety.

I believe we are all parts of this one consciousness, split off temporarily and unaware, so we can experience this universe (really ourself) and bring our experiences back. I believe when you die you rejoin the whole, and you also will experience the lifetime of every other person who ever lived.

And that's why I feel it's really in everyone's self interest to treat each other with as much love as possible.

A fellow pantheist! How wonderful.

"There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
If it be now, ’tis not to come.
If it be not to come, it will be now.
If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all."

Most of you are far too young to be worrying about death; get on with living. Embrace life and plan for living long.

We are redoing our wills and trust this spring. I expect to be cremated and my ashes built into a sand castle on a fine, sandy beach. I'll give the kids a couple of choices and money for the trip.

 

[civvver]

Regarding my remains: if I were to exclude rational and practical thinking and just emphasise what I'd feel would be the best demise of my corpse, then I'd like to be laid to rest on the ground somewhere out in the wild, far away from humans. I like the idea of becoming nutrition for birds, bugs, plants and whatnot. Perhaps a fox or a wolverine would come and gnaw on my bones. I'd be a part of something bigger and that somehow feels less lonely and more comforting than the more pragmatical disposal by cremation or burial.

That's what the mongols would do, just throw your body off a cliff somewhere and let the birds eat it. Just look up sky burial.

 

[BenitoChavez]

The way I see it death is at the same time the most utterly horrible thing that can happen to you and something completely normal that you shouldn't think let alone care about.

Being dead doesn't seem so bad, it's the process of dying that is the scary part. Most methods seem horrible to me.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

I've never really not been there. After my beloved meat pod loses its sentience I will still resonate until everything takes its course. Everything resonates. All the things you've touched, everyone who has laid eyes upon you, every word you've exchanged with someone else, and then they with someone else, ad infinitum. But even the things you do by yourself. It's never really gone. So I'm more concerned with life than with death. How much of me actually fades, and how much of me is really inside all of you is difficult to say. One thing I'm sure of though is that death is not only spectacular, big thanks to DMT, but also the great equalizer, and the only state of existence that is free of suffering.

 

[PPQ_Purple]

Post more and leave a treasure trove for digital archaeologists!

If 50 years from now people still even remember this forum existed I'd be surprised. Does anyone remember Myspace? Exactly.

Being dead doesn't seem so bad, it's the process of dying that is the scary part. Most methods seem horrible to me.

Really? Which ones? As far as I know most of them are just some variation on the theme of being ill. Suicide can get a bit bothersome because of the effort required. And I guess murder or something like ebola would suck. But like most of them are just meh.

 

[AdamCrock]

The time is drawing near, where this epic historical cycle must come to its natural conclusion once again.

Where I concoct a scheme to have exotic woman to myself ? I must have been a dark wizard in that saga

 

[BenitoChavez]

Really? Which ones? As far as I know most of them are just some variation on the theme of being ill.

Have you ever been ill? Like, bed-ridden, everything hurts, "why is this happening" type of ill? I have and it sucks. I got better but I can only imagine something like cancer or whatever being 1000 times worse. Even in situations where there is little to no physical pain, if you're aware something is coming there is that emotional pain, that dread of something coming that you can't do anything about.

 

[civvver]

Do you guys remember that story about the american family of four that died mysteriously in their sleep on vacation in mexico? It turned out to be a gas leak. It sounded horrible but honestly, I question if that would be so bad. They died in their sleep, so without pain and misery, and they all went together so no lonesome survivor to miss them. Sure their extended families were probably crushed but it's not like there was an orphaned child.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

No, I never heard of that story. That sounds like what happened to Weird Al's parents.

 

[PPQ_Purple]

Have you ever been ill? Like, bed-ridden, everything hurts, "why is this happening" type of ill? I have and it sucks.

How else do you think I would be able to sit on the internet posting on a working day?

I got better but I can only imagine something like cancer or whatever being 1000 times worse. Even in situations where there is little to no physical pain, if you're aware something is coming there is that emotional pain, that dread of something coming that you can't do anything about.

Emotional pain is subjective. For me it would be more of a case of bummer, no more life than any pain.

 

[Hygro]

If 50 years from now people still even remember this forum existed I'd be surprised. Does anyone remember Myspace? Exactly.

This forum is 21 years old and MySpace lasted about 7.