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?

This, it might at least might benefit someone else......

Cremated. I don't know if anyone who has been buried in my lifetime.

I couldn’t give a monkeys, I’ll be dead.

Cremated and scattered on the rose garden so as not to be a burden to dd.

No gravestone to have to look after plus I want dd to feel she can move away etc when the time comes

I think buried. My mum died just over a year ago and now I have very odd feelings about her being cremated. I was for it but now I feel weird about it and I can’t explain it to anyone, when I try I think I sound bonkers.

I would like something like this: informedfinalchoices.org/crestone/services/open-air-cremation-site/

I want a natural burial. No embalming, no coffin, no headstone, I'd quite like a tree actually! Just wrap me in a shroud and let me return to the earth.

If that is not possible (costs etc) I'm fine with being cremated. It's not like I'll be here to object is it? 😂

Direct cremation for me, please.

Honestly, the idea of either chills me to the bone. My body being incinerated to ashes or rotting in a box in the ground. They both sound awful.

I'm thinking of having my body donated to science. I worked in academia for a while, so I know how much they appreciate corpses to work with. I think that would make me happier.

Don't have a strong preference since I'll be dead so that probably means I'll be cremated by default.

I did walk through a grave yard recently an all the "gone but never forgotten" seems a bit silly given most of us will be forgotten in a couple of generations. If I was Julius Caesar I'd have a moument with that on but don't really understand having hundreds of "Johnathan Davies 1920-2001" line up. It will just be wasting space once their grand kids die.

Cremated although because I'm
In France it isn't the easiest option.

I used to think cremation, but apparently it's not environmentally friendly so now I think natural burial.

Before reading this thread I was certain I wanted to be buried - there seemed to something lovely and peaceful about loved ones sitting beside my grave.

However after reading the comments, images of cold graves, often left untended, doesn't really seem so inviting
Cremation instead then perhaps.

Buried
In the cemetery with my dd. She is in the next plot to my mum and dad.
I visit the cemetery 2/3 times a week. My dd us buried at the top of a hill overlooking my home town. I'm going with her.

Cremated. I don't want dd to have to feel obliged to visit a grave, or to feel bad if she hasn't.

I no am claustrophobic with a worm phobia! Cremation for me, like an op my fear is not being properly dead and waking up trapped underground, at least if I’m burned I’m definitely dead. My ashes are to be scattered in Iona. My dad told us not to bury him as he didn’t want us to schlep to a grave forever and a day.

@hollyhope

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

Thought of exactly the same thing! It was Lost for Words with Thora Hird and Pete Postlethawite

Buried, and my will says this.

Cremated no funeral.

Cremated
I don’t want to take up any space
Graveyards are just so depressing when you think after 1-2 generations no one will know you, your grave won’t be tended I don’t see the point in it myself

Buried, 100%. Preferably in Westminster Abbey please, and thank you.

Cremated. The idea of burial just doesn’t sit right with me personally.

Cremated and disposed of with minimum fuss and expense.

Burial, ideally a woodland site with a tree and a small plaque. A little boy I taught sadly passed away and was buried at a woodland site on a wicker coffin. Whist his funeral was so sad it was also lovely. I have visited his grave several times since and it’s beautiful. As each field fills up it becomes a natural woodland area. It’s made quite an impact on me.

Or... I give you... "Mumufication"!

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