How do you want to be buried | A list of burial types

[Emerita]

Traditional Burial Methods

Casket: A container for burial.
Home Burial: Burying a body on private property.
Hanging Coffin: Coffins suspended on cliffs or trees.
Urn: Container to hold ashes.
Scatter Ashes: Any location for scattering ones remains.


Cremation and Related Methods

Cremation: Reducing a body to ashes through burning.
Aquamation: Using alkaline hydrolysis to reduce the body to ashes.


Natural and Eco Friendly Methods

Recompose: Transforming remains into soil through composting.
Tree Burial/ Planting: Biodegradable container for tree growth. Or using ashes as fertilizer.
Coral Reef Burial: Somehow ashes are made into a reef structure.
Sea Burial: Scattering ashes or burying a body at sea.
Infinity Burial Suit: A suit that nourishes soil.
Loop Living Cocoon: A biodegradable cocoon.
Exposure: Leaving the body in nature to decompose.
Biodegradable Urn: An urn that decomposes naturally.
Burial Pod: A pod that encases remains.


Preservation and Scientific Methods

Mummification: Preserving a body through embalming and drying.
Cryonics: Preserving a body at low temperatures for potential future revival. (Obviously not this one)
Plastination: Replacing body fluids with plastic for educational purposes.
Dissolution Promession: Using liquid nitrogen to break down a body.
Donate to Science/Organ Donation


I Don't Know What Category

Painting: Mixing ashes into paint for artwork.
Firework: Incorporating ashes into fireworks.
Ornament/Art: Creating memorial items from ashes.
Space Burial: Sending ashes into space.
Vinyl Compression: Turning ashes into a vinyl record.
Glass Keepsakes: Mixing ashes into glass work.
Diamonds: Creating synthetic diamonds from ashes.
Columbarium: A monument which stores the remains
Tattoo: Ashes incorporated in the ink of someone's tattoo.
Pencils: Ashes are made into about 240 pencils.
Frisbee: Ashes made into disk.
Bullets: Ashes mixed into ammunition.


Hypothetically if you had the choice of any of these not worrying about logistics which would you pick?

I would be a firework but in reality Im just being cremated

 

[Kali_Yuga13]

This is a great list!

I didn't know about the Infinity Burial Suit. I guess it's somewhat affordable at $1500 but I think it's more about buying the idea since fungus and spores are everywhere. Same with the Loop Living Cocoon but holy crap that thing's expensive at $4,500 for a box made of mushrooms. These methods are more about posturing one's environmental values imo. Being buried in a pine box or just in the dirt is virtually free. I like tree burial or exposure.

A coupe other methods along the lines of exposure are

Tibetan Sky Burial: Remains are aid out in the open at high elevation for vultures to dine on.
Viking Funeral: Body is laid to rest on an combustible raft which is set adrift in a body of water. A flaming arrow is shot at the raft to set it ablaze to partially cremate the body and the rest goes into the water as the raft is consumed.
Volcano: Jump into volcano and become one with the gods.
Hot Spring: If the spring is hot enough, the body is not recoverable.
Cave Burial: Going so deep into a cave so that the body is virtually irretrievable.

Some of the nature-based ones are both the method of death and burial. They're briefly more violent but often certain. Good for those that don't want a funeral.

Edit - Added additional nature methods.

 

[TheShadowQueen]

I don't care what happens to me but turning into a vinyl sounds cool

 

[darksouls]

because I am against animal testing
I would prefer to donate my body to science
but that is very expensive
and it is tied to many conditions
animal rights activists claim that this could reduce animal testig
you can read more about it on PETAs website

 

[astonishedturnip]

My wish is for my ashes to be scattered at Mont Saint-Michel, the place I felt the closest to some higher power. idk if it's legal or not, do it in secret maybe, but I don't want anyone hanging onto me or making anything out of me, lol. I was used enough in life!

 

[33K1LLM3]

I don't want to be attached to those who hurt me anymore, so I want Cremated and my ashes flushed down the toilet. I appreciate the amount of effort you put into your post though <3

 

[psp3000]

cremated and scattered

but it would be cool to be used for a tree or a nutrient rich seed and nut block for wildlife or to have one of those sky burials

I just looked up that organization that's supposed to turn your ashes into food for wildlife and unfortunately they allegedly gave people (families and loved ones of the deceased) back fake ashes (of what was supposed to be left over after the process) ?

 

[Scythe]

Sky burial, I wish to return at least a little of what I took from nature. And having my remains become a part of a vulture or maybe wolf is nice. I respect both animals.

The ink tattoo one also sounds cool, but I don't have anyone who'd agree to this.

Maybe it'd be nice to have some of my ashes mixed with a USB containing my life's work. The outer coating on USBs are plastic, it should be possible.

The artwork one sounds cool though. I actually know someone who can paint. most of the misc category, I've never heard of those and they're all very cool.

 

[nobodycaresaboutme]

I don't care even if my body would be eaten as meat because then I'm not in the world anymore