[GrumpyOldMan]

Originally Posted by MandoMan

There are fox hunting clubs in the UK and Ireland where it is traditional that if a fox hunting horse dies, it is donated to the club kennels, where it is cut up, cooked, and fed to the hounds. When the hounds are out running, they pause from time to time to distribute the horse over the fields it loved. If you have ever been a fox hunter, you understand how “right” this seems, and how romantic. Both horses and hounds love fox hunting, and foxes seem to enjoy the game of wits, too.

How about for Village golfers, a little gadget on the back of a golf cart that slowly trickles ashes, a pinch at a time, all over someone’s favorite golf course?

Good idea.

[Tokyogirl]

Wow, I never knew there was such a place as a green cemetery. . Thanks for sharing.

[Blueblaze]

Originally Posted by GrumpyOldMan

Another innovative idea, instead of a funeral, or cremation, there is growing interest in composting people.

Sounds crazy right, except, that is what people did for literally ever until someone found a way to make lots of money off people dying.

I understand that just planting a body in your backyard is both illegal and unsanitary and can spread disease. BUT...

Compositing results in perfectly safe residue and has a far lower carbon footprint than either burial or cremation. Give it a read, I like it.

now you can compost human bodies too

How wasteful! Just think of all the greenhouse gasses your rotting body will release, as microbes feed on you and convert your stored carbon into poisonous methane and CO2 emissions!

Why should microbes have all the fun? Anyone seriously concerned about the looming climate disaster predicted by Al Gore (that plunged Florida into the Atlantic back in 2013!) should demand the Soylent Green solution to human body disposal!

Did you know that if you train a flatworm to avoid an electric shock and then grind him up and feed him to another flatworm, the new flatworm automatically learns how to avoid an electric shock?

I've got a socialist sister-in-law who could greatly benefit from eating my brain!

Soylent Green, baby! Tastes like chicken!

[DanBrew]

Consuming as much hops an barley as I can in order to do my part for fertilizing the land.

[DaleDivine]

Originally Posted by GrumpyOldMan

The alternative, I have told my wife to cremate me and flush the ashes, she has agreed to the cremation, but refuses to agree to flush me - LOL

My wife wants her ashes dumped in the bay in Virginia.
I told her I could just flush them and they would get in the bay eventually...

[Carlsondm]

Economics may prevail. The mortuaries or compostatories will determine a price to do this properly. Storage costs will be interesting. Disease control will also be factored in. I wonder if they need to “roll” you periodically.

[DaleDivine]

Originally Posted by DaleDivine

My wife wants her ashes dumped in the bay in Virginia.
I told her I could just flush them and they would get in the bay eventually...

Having my ashes spread out over Walmart parking lot so the kids will visit me every day...

[Catfishjeff]

I’m having my ashes spread in cyberspace!

[Kenswing]

I just don't know if I'm ready to go to Lowes to pick up a bag that says "Human Mulch" on it..

[La lamy]

Originally Posted by Blackbird45

I want to be laminated and placed at the local tavern

[JanetMM]

When my kid was 10 years old he decided he wanted a Viking funeral in Lake Erie. But my archery skills just aren’t good enough. So I figured for myself I would be cremated and then ashes sent to the fireworks company in Pennsylvania and hopefully put in some fireworks. But composting seems like a very good idea. I will have to check into this. I wouldn’t mind a body farm either to help forensic scientists. 😂

[Mountain Gold Coffee]

I want to launched into space like scotty from Star Treck, away from this flying dirt ball

[Michread]

I would like to be composted when I expire but cannot because I am considered toxic as most of us are.

Yup, it’s the filling in your teeth. Remove those and then compost away.

[Rosebud1949]

I have not talked to any foxes lately, but being shredded to death by a bunch of hounds cannot fun for them...Neither can being a horse ridden recklessly to death in pursuit of the fox. What is romantic about that. Yes another "class" of entitled rich folk. Enough of that here. If you cannot care for any animal then you cannot care much for humans.

[LianneMigiano]

I'd prefer to donate my body to the Body Farm for forensic science purposes!