When you die, what do you want to be done with you?

Reminder to leave instructions for your loved ones, regardless of your age or health. One of the hardest decisions your family will go through is trying to guess what you'd want.

Literally just throw me in a ditch idgaf as long as my body is allowed to naturally decay and recycle the energy back into the ecosystem.

Stop locking bodies in boxes that take decades to decay.

Whatever is cheapest/easiest for my family.

I'm an organ donor, but I suspect my organs won't be worth much by the time I'm done with them.

Feed me to the mushrooms.

I'd like my corpse to be used to frame someone for murder. Obviously I can't name names, because that would undermine the plot, but I trust my loved ones to frame up someone who has it coming.

There’s still some active tar pits. I’m surprised nobody is intentionally trying to become a fossil. It would be cool to do some weird shit to mess with the aliens who find your fossil in 10,000 years or so.

Trebuchet my bloated corpse into Dick Cheney's living room

Fuck it, I wanna be cryogenically frozen, if I can have the chance of living hundreds of years in the future, no matter how slim, I'd rather be prepared.

Eat me, bang me, fill me up with cream. Who gives a shit?

Give my body to a cabal of necrophiliacs so I can continue to be fucked in death as I was in life.

I would like someone to rent a tree spade, one if those trucks that can pick up a nature tree with us for ball, pick up a nice tree, wrap me in linen, throw me in the hole, and drop the trees back into the hole on top of me.

I want my body donated to a body farm.

Shoot me out of a cannon

The way things are going, I fully expect to be turned into Soylent Green

I told my kids to claim my skull for the mantle and compost the rest

I don't give a fuck because I'm dead and won't be there to see it.

Do whatever you want with my corpse.

I would like to remain dead

Sky Burial!!!

Something cheap for my family.

You ever get rid of a couch by having that garbage truck with the grinder on the back chew up that couch in about 3 seconds and leave nothing but a tiny bit of sawdust on the pavement? I want that.

Space burial

Sky burial! Hack me up and feed me to animals and plants. That way I can at least give some of the energy back that I consumed in my life

Don't think I’ll have the capacity to care, but put me in the ground with nothing but a light porous cloth covering so all the nutrients and microorganisms can be utilized by nature.

I've organised to have my body donated to a medical school for dissection. It was quite complicated, lots of forms to be filled in and witnessed. My executor has to phone the university when I die & they send a van to collect me. They won't accept my body if I've died of something communicable, or it was eg some accident that left me too mangled. When they're done with me I'll be cremated and my name goes up on a plaque in a special garden.

I want my skin and muscle tissue removed, and then I would like to be shot into space.

It's playing a long con, and I might fall into a star before I ever get the chance, but it would be really funny if some space explorer encountered a floating human skeleton and got spooked.

I want to be explosively shot into space go back to being stardust.

Sky burial seems pretty cool: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial

Organ donation process, then load my body in to my shitbox car along with as much of my bullshit that fits in it, light it all on fire and trebuchet it into a quarry or something.

I don't care it's not my body anymore. The people left behind can decide.

Cremate, then spill the rest into an ocean. A few years later my star dust is consumed by other life forms around the world.

For the people after me it’s one big effort and then never again.

If I can have anything, I want to explode into a bunch of butterflies.

If only real options are available, I am hoping composting is legal by then. Just be turned back into dirt and plants.

My wish has also been to become a tree actually.

Its not legal where i live but i prefer if my body was buried as is without coffin in a forest so flora and fungi can feast on my nutrients.

Ideally there would be no body to bury. Think about it, can you think of a boring way to die where your body is never found?

Of course i'm making sure my death will be adventurous by staying at my computer and never going outside. Totally won't die of a heart attack like a loser.

I've always thought sky burials are pretty cool, but as a person living in North America who has no plans to move to Tibet or take up Buddhism, that's completely impractical. Next best thing might be for my to be placed on a body farm.

I said body farm, my wife was too creeped out by that. So then it was "donated to science" but then those nasty body brokers get your parts and sell them wherever so now it's natural burial.

In Colorado one can be buried on private property not designated as a graveyard so if whatever county I end up in is cool with it, just plant me in the back yard.

Sky burial https://search.app?link=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSky_burial&utm_campaign=aga&utm_source=agsadl1%2Csh%2Fx%2Fgs%2Fm2%2F4

Forgotten

Stuffed and mounted in a ferocious pose. Hide me in the closet of someone you don't like.

Take what someone else can use (not sell), chuck the rest in a hole in the ground in the middle of the woods.

Very honestly, since I was a child I wanted to be burned to a point where the flesh is gone but the bones are still intact and have the bones buried.

I think it is even possible to do that in Austria but I live in Germany and obviously no one is going to spend time, money, and energy on these shenanigans once I am dead. But if I could selfishly wish for a way, this would be it. There are reasons for why I don't want to be buried and why I don't want to be cremated and this would feel... The rightest.

The matter that makes up my cells has been going through the cycle of life for god knows how long. All I know is I’ll be pissed if that cycle is cut off to isolate that matter in a metal box in the ground.

Green burial. No preservatives, no permanent structures, just natural decay and completing the circle of life. Don't pickle me for a funeral just get me in the ground asap.

I took up enough precious space on this bitch of an Earth in life, so my only wish is to take up as little of it as possible in death.

No giant overpriced wooden box in a concrete case on a dedicated plot of land, filled with fanciful linens to wrap my lifeless husk specifically treated to rot away as slowly as possible. Not if I get a say. Burn my dead ass to ashes and preferably scatter them to the wind, I don't care where. Or, as a wise Danny DeVito said, throw me in the trash. Nature will have its way with what's left. I'm crumbling to entropy anyway, might as well get it over with as efficiently as I can.

I will not ""become"" a tree, or ""return to"" anyplace. I want to be gone. My lease on this world is over. I explicitly want that lease returned, to the fullest extent it matters.

Not like I'd necessarily get a say, though. Funerals and their rituals are for the living. The ultimate conclusion of my wish to command nothing of the world after I'm gone is that I also can't command what happens to my remains after I'm gone. I can express my wishes, but if no one agrees to honor them, so be it.

If my loved ones want to stuff my corpse in a monkey suit and bury it in an expensive box on a dedicated plot of land for 100 years because that's how they want to greive my passing, who am I to stop them? I'm dead.

I'd be OK if they dismantled my body for parts but it's kind of unlikely that they'll find something usable. The rest is a big whatever - burn it, bury it, pet cemetery, I'm OK with it. As long as the body doesn't leave my city.

Give me the oven.

I wonder if I could be made into quality boots and other clothes.

I'd like my mind to be uploaded into an AI heaven or whatever similar thing.