Warning a bit morbid

[Grumpbum123]

Have you given much thought to how you want to be disposed of when you die? This is something I’ve given an awful lot of thought to due to mental health issues.
In an ideal world I’d like a sky burial however that’s never going to happen so I’d like a plain burial with no ceremony or fuss, just chuck me in the ground and forget about me.

I don't really mind but the most beautiful funerals I've been to were natural burials. My best friend and DSiL both choose them, and they were very comforting.

Whatever my family feel is right will be fine by me. It will probably either be a natural burial or a cremation followed by scattering in some favourite places. Have chosen my own music though.

Oh, have just looked up sky burials. No I definitely don't want one of those.

I want to give my body for donation and science. Use whatever you can, I suppose the rest would probably get incinerated. If they can help somebody in any way then I'd rather do that than have a pretty grave to visit.

How do I leave my body to medical science? That's what I'd like having read your responses. Sounds fascinating to me shame I'll be gone!

DH died when he was 36, and is buried in our village churchyard. The stone mason left space on his gravestone for my name to be added when I eventually join him. I have a certificate from the council giving me the right of burial there, and I keep it in a file with my will and my requested hymns and bible readings for my funeral, so it’s easy for the kids to organise.

I'm not sure your will is the best place to give instructions like this. It can be a long while until it's read. Give the detail to NOK.

I'd like to be cremated but it's bad for the environment. I read somewhere that the greenest thing is to be dissolved but that grosses me out too much. Maybe I should buy a plot for burial.

My Will states that I would like a woodland burial. This is what both my parents had and it's a beautiful place. I like the thought of my body returning to the earth (once they've taken what they can for donation or science).

I want to be cremated in a cardboard box with as little fuss as possible. Quite like the idea of a tree butial, where your ashes are put in a hole and a tree planted on top.

We have discussed this (and made wills - once we had children). Updated our wills recently too

I’d like to be cremated and ashes scattered as I don’t want my children to feel obligated to visit a cemetery. If they’d like to use some of my ashes for a piece of jewellery, that’s fine too. I don’t need a big party but something they feel comfortable doing (and paid for from my estate), not a problem.

We've discussed this and have written our wishes out as well. I'd like a woodland burial, no embalming, either just a shroud or a woollen coffin (I love these but they are pricey!) and then a tree planted on top of me. Cremation seems such a terrible waste of fuel and energy to me.

I think funerals are for the living to say goodbye so I haven’t said what I want, whoever I leave behind can choose. I’m not a fan of direct cremation because although it’s cheap I wouldn’t like the thought of one of my loved ones being cremated without anyone there to mark it.

I want to be fed to animals.

We're all cremation in our house. Scatter me in the woods, DH in the sea.

I think I'd prefer to be cremated, my DH can decide what to do with my ashes. I m an atheist so although i want a funeral, i know many cremations don't give you a chance of a service so i m not sure where the actual funeral could be held.

It’s not morbid at all. Until we discover a pill for immortality (and would you want to live forever) Death is a natural and biological fact of life. It shouldn’t be a taboo subject.
I can’t give my body to medical science as I’m on the Organ Doner registar.
To be honest I don’t know what I want. Probably cremation.

Water cremation. Normal cremation is bad for the environment.

To those who want to donate to medical science - have a back up as you won’t always be able to x

1990shopeful DH was an atheist and we chose a humanist service for his cremation. Every aspect of it was personalised, that may be sn option?

I would like to be buried in coffin that's padded and furry inside, with lovely pillows. DH rolls his eyes every time I mention it though.

I also don't want cut flowers for my funeral or a fancy coffin and wouldn't want people to feel obliged to travel too far to come to my funeral (not that many people would come anyway - I don't know many people!)

Under a Silver Birch on the moors.

I have told my DD's I want to be cremated and then scattered in a woodland not fussed where that is, then they can think of me if they go for a walk. I don't want them tied to any one place in the world by feeling guilty about leaving my remains. Always hated being dragged along to the cemetery when I was a child. Btw I'm not even 50 but just wanted them to know so it's out there and there's no difficult decision when the time comes.

Give my body to medical science
If medical science will have me,
They can take my lungs and kidneys
But my heart belongs to Daphne,
Daphne!

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Don't bury me at sea
The pollution might kill me!
Just put my remains in a cheap box
And grill me.

Etc.