Buried, burned or ‘breaking bad’?

my body will be disposed of in the cheapest way possible, i imagine that'd be cremation. My 18 yr old dog is on his last legs and i could bury or cremate him, i think i'm going to cremate him, not for cost reasons as it'd be free to bury him in the backgarden (well, the coffin i've bought for him was £25), it'd be because i'd like to have his ashes nearby. Cremation will cost £246.
 
I don't want anything left once I'm gone I'm gone watched and seen far to many archaeological digs I don't want anyone digging up my bones in a few thousand years and sticking me in a museum. Watched a programme once where there are actually companies that specialise in clearing old unused and unwanted graveyards/crypts and they exhume the dead and stick them in a mass burial pit somewhere else... no thanks. Sometimes they're quite well preserved semi mummifed infact. Incidently when you ask the people who do the job what they want done with their remains the reply is unanimous and its cremation and its not hard to figure out why.

Scuzi said:
What happens to the soup?
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Alkali + fat = soap so you get literally washed away I imagine

Chris Wilson said:
I mentioned this in another thread just now, the lack of burial grounds has apparently instigated the search for novel ways of rendering our dead down like a horse for glue.

Dissolving our loved ones in caustic potash is now thrust upon us by the Co-Op's advertising department as "the new and green way", maybe you get a posthumous dividend?

Luckily I managed to get my late parents buried here at home, rather than dissolved in a stainless steel flask and their skeletons crushed to dust in an industrial pulveriser...
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Industrial pulveriser is what happens after cremation as well it doesn't dispose of everything...

dave28 said:
to be buried on my own property but i imagine the UK Gov make that as awkward as they possibly can and say its too close to a highway or some other dumb excuse like they do with everything else
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Ironically its exactly what the romans did bury their did by the side of the highway major roads out of towns were lined with mausoleums and memorials
 
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The most polluting and toxic method possible, just to **** off the stop oil lot who made me miss a buisness flight and was stuck in heathrow for nearly 2 days.

Yes I am bitter.
 
Chris Wilson said:
I mentioned this in another thread just now, the lack of burial grounds has apparently instigated the search for novel ways of rendering our dead down like a horse for glue.
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I had a search just now to see what subject you brought this up under, as it wasn't immediately obvious where it would come up from a scan of recent topics.

For anyone else wondering, it turns out the context was: 'immigrants are taking up too much space and we are losing space to bury people' in the thread on the French riots.
 
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Personally I don't care, but it has been on my mind a bit in recent months as many of my relatives are religious, many getting older and/or recently passing away, and the notion of anything but a traditional burial is utterly abhorrent to them.
 
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