Would you prefer to be buried or cremated?

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I have thought about this a lot and I really don't know what I want and the pros and cons of each option. I really want to make a decision and tell my husband and children so they know for whenever the time comes (hopefully in many, many years) rather than them not knowing and having to make that decision for me. So I've come on here to ask - which would you prefer and why?

I don't care either way. I don't have children nor will I, and unlikely to have a partner. So the funeral would fall to siblings if they are still alive.

I've been looking at donating my body to my local medical school. Save the expense and hassle of a funeral. They can hold a memorial or go for a drink or whatever, and future people will benefit either from discovering why my stupid body doesn't work properly thanks to lupus, from surgeons being able to practise before they get to live people, or from medical students learning about the geography of a body. Win win. I think I'll probably end up doing this if possible. I have two medical schools relatively close to me that will accept donations, both have different criteria. It's my preferred option atm.

@AlexisCarringtonColbyDexter

Buried. I dont like the idea that ive been burnt into non existence like waste. Burial is natural and simply returning to the earth.

This is why I want an open air cremation.

Thought of a play starring Thora Hird, when, in answer to this question, she says, "Surprise me."

I want to be stuffed so I can stand in the corner of my daughters lounge and be decorated according to the season. For some reason she’s not too keen on this idea. Selfish madam

Search up Caitlin Doughty. She is a mortician and she puts an interesting spin on death and cremation. I found her attitude very reassuring and refreshing on such a scary subject.

I've requested a natural burial; there's a natural burial ground nearby and you get planted under a tree which sounds pretty good to me.

I don't want a headstone, or a coffin. Just wrap me up in a shroud so I can quietly return to the earth.

Cremated - then turned into a little diamond 💎

Cremated. I don't want my family to feel obligated to visit and mourn, and feel guilty if they move away.

After seeing the state of my grandparents graves, where none of their children (and there are 11 children between both sets of grandparents) can be arsed to visit and look after, I’d like to be cremated and scattered into the wind.

I don't like the idea of either, but I walk past the local graveyard most days and some graves are beautifully kept and I think that's nice but then think when all those I've known are gone I don't just want to be left and open to whatever they decide to do to the graveyard in the future so I don't think I have a choice I just don't want to say it out loud!

Cremated.

I've instructed OH that he is to sneak a bit of my ashes in the Pyramids at Giza so I can claim it as my final resting place. Move over Pharoah, I'm taking over.

Plus if I'm cremated it precludes future archaeologists from digging up my skeleton and putting me on display in a museum.

Cremated for several reasons; I have a fear of waking up in a sealed coffin, I also don't have a connection to anywhere that I would like to be buried, I don't like the idea of my remains being around for years and years and potentially interfered with at some point, and it seems a waste of valuable land resources. You can buy plaques if you want an actual place to visit and lay flowers.
Having said that, i'm not keen on crematorium funerals. The ones I've been to have been very quick and impersonal, literally one in one out with the next family waiting outside as you leave. Doesn't seem like much of a send off

Buried - I want to be an archaeological dig in about 500 years.

Buried. A natural burial would be ideal. Otherwise a traditional churchyard.
I really don't want to be cremated.
Generally I think these things run in families, mine are mostly buried.

Cremated I think as I can travel the world on the wind and not be eaten by beetles.

Don't care, I'm not superstitious.

I also don't want to leave the burden of people feeling tied to a grave location, guilt of moving away or becoming too unwell to care for the grave, distress if it is damaged. No

This.

My mum looks after the graves of her parents. No one will after she's gone. (And buried with her mum) I find no comfort in visiting old bones.

My dad wants to be cremated.

Lorraine Bowen (the Crumble Lady) has a song that asks !

@Bettina500

Cremated for several reasons; I have a fear of waking up in a sealed coffin, I also don't have a connection to anywhere that I would like to be buried, I don't like the idea of my remains being around for years and years and potentially interfered with at some point, and it seems a waste of valuable land resources. You can buy plaques if you want an actual place to visit and lay flowers. Having said that, i'm not keen on crematorium funerals. The ones I've been to have been very quick and impersonal, literally one in one out with the next family waiting outside as you leave. Doesn't seem like much of a send off

Crematoria are a horrible and dysfunctional Victorian legacy that I wish we would reject in favour of natural cremation. Hate them.

@Dinosaurcatcher - 😂😂😂😂 🐥👙🎃⛄️

I’ve watched far too many horror films where someone is buried alive either deliberately or some medical ailment that renders their vital signs dormant and they are certified as being dead only to wake up inside their coffin!

I did read years ago about a cemetery where you could have a doorbell type thing inside your coffin that you could press should you come to inside your coffin!

So cremation it is!

Neither at the moment thanks 🤪

cremated and scattered on a mountain top. becoming one with the elements. but no need for my children to care for a burial plot, visit etc.

Cremated and scattered at sea where I live