How will they treat your corpse and why?

[CptStern]

I apologize in advance, I hope this isn't taken offensively, but cremation seems like a terrible idea.

ya well how the hell are they gonna stuff my body into a space capsule?

 

[Raziaar]

I apologize in advance, I hope this isn't taken offensively, but cremation seems like a terrible idea.

We are carbon based life forms, and the carbon can be used to create new life, returning to the chain of life from which you were formed.

Besides that, why would you want to be turned into carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide? Not to mention contributing to the pollution and greenhouse problem.

There's not really a shortage of carbon, and there is the thing called the carbon cycle. It'll eventually get back to forming new life.

And having your corpse cremated that happens exactly once is probably less polluting than if you lived a few days longer before dying. Fairly insignificant. Your body pollutes even as you rot in the ground as well, producing gases like methane and hydrogen sulfide.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Burn me, man. Burn me and launch me out into space. Preferably at a trajectory that will someday intersect some distant star.

 

[CptStern]

you want the deluxe package:

The Voyager Service launches Celestis flight capsules and modules on a voyage through deepest space, leaving the Earth-Moon system on a permanent celestial journey.

however ...

The Voyager Service is expected to launch its first mission in 2012,

let me know if you have problems killing yourself before then



here's a sobering thought ..what if your capsule is fouind by some alien race. they have the technology to reanimate you however they've never seen a human and only have ashes to work with. you might wake up with your arm where your leg should be or your penis on your forehead

 

[Raziaar]

yhere's a sobering thought ..what if your capsule is fouind by some alien race. they have the technology to reanimate you however they've never seen a human and only have ashes to work with. you might wake up with your arm where your leg should be or your penis on your forehead

But DNA is destroyed in the cremation process!

 

[Tyguy]

and i already have a penis on my forehead

 

[CptStern]

But DNA is destroyed in the cremation process!

alien technology = magic

if they can travel huge distances just to anally probe humans they can rebuild a human from cigarette ashes








you're not actually questioning whether this is feasible or not are you? oh ok, just checking

 

[V-Man339]

I really do not care what they do with my corpse.
I'm freaking dead, use it for necrophilia for all I care.

 

[Raziaar]

alien technology = magic

if they can travel huge distances just to anally probe humans they can rebuild a human from cigarette ashes


you're not actually questioning whether this is feasible or not are you? oh ok, just checking

Travel huge distances just to anally probe humans? But the capsule was rocketed off into space away from earth! Probably some huge distance before it was found! Nowhere near earth!

Your scenario is full of holes CptStern! You are finished!

 

[CptStern]

you're so unimaginative. I didnt say the aliens who probed humans were the same aliens who reanimate cremated remains. I said they've never seen a human before, duh!. anyways this nitpicking is silly, even for you

 

[CyberPitz]

I wouldn't complain if my body was roasted, attached to cement blocks and dumped at sea, etc. I'm dead, I don't give a shit.

 

[Raziaar]

you're so unimaginative. I didnt say the aliens who probed humans were the same aliens who reanimate cremated remains. I said they've never seen a human before, duh!. anyways this nitpicking is silly, even for you

Yes. Because I am serious.

 

[Tyguy]

I really do not care what they do with my corpse.
I'm freaking dead, use it for necrophilia for all I care.

See, if we had more people like you we wouldn't need to prosecute those poor people who have to resort to breaking into funeral homes to rape the dead.

 

[VirusType2]

I really do not care what they do with my corpse.
I'm freaking dead, use it for necrophilia for all I care.

Can I get that in writing? Oh wait --


sweeeet

 

[Stigmata]

And the sobbing latina waitress informs the police in a wavering voice, "I only brought him his sopaipillas! He took the little flag and he went loco. Why me god, why? Perdóneme Señor."

 

[Saturos]

if I can afford it; Launched into deep space

http://www.memorialspaceflights.com/services_voyager.asp

^This

Except I'd like my body to be cryogenically frozen first so that my fellow alien species can recover my body for resurrection.

Good riddance. You humans suck.

 

[Raziaar]

Have you actually been to a restaurant like that?

 

[YROC]

Normal burial. Preferably in the middle of the woods by myself.


EDIT: Hopefully someone doesn't clear the woods and build new suburbs over top of me. D;

 

[VirusType2]

^This

Except I'd like my body to be cryogenically frozen first so that my fellow alien species can recover my body for resurrection.

Good riddance. You humans suck.

I wonder what the effects of drifting through deep space would have on a human body.

Say you were to die in space, drifting. Away from any stars, it's very cold. Anaerobic bacteria could survive without oxygen, but they probably need warmth to survive.

I'm thinking space would be a pretty good preservative of a human body - not to mention pretty cool way to let alien space travelers know that something out there exists.

But anyway, you are effectively space trash.

 

[KiplingsCat]

I'm scared of fire, so I'd hate to be cremated. I'd like for my body to be donated to scientific research; i'd like to think that it would be of some use to someone...but not to that bodies thing. I went to see that and I didn't really like it.

 

[Qonfused]

I plan on donating my body to science.

 

[YROC]

I was watching this show called "Taboo" on National Geographic. The topic of that episode was "death". Anywho, they were showing dead folks, people who had donated their bodies to science. The college (I think it was UT, located in Knoxville or Chattanooga or somewhere else in Tennessee, I don't remember) that was holding the bodies was laying them in the woods to show them decomposing and stuff. It was weird. Been a while since I watched it. I remember one of the students cutting off the pinki toe from one of the bodies. The person had only been dead for a short time and the toe looked so healthy. I cringed when she cut it off. XD

 

[Kyorisu]

It's so they can say okay under these conditions the human body will decompose in such a fashion. It's very interesting stuff.

 

[YROC]

Yeah, very interesting. I recommend the show if you're into watching that sort of thing. I love it.

 

[Krynn72]

I'm going to donate my body to religion.

 

[Jintor]

 

[Saturos]

I'm going to donate my body to religion.

necromancy?

btw, I wonder how badly humans poop everywhere once they die? Has anyone ever seen that episode of SouthPark?

 

[Captain M4d]

My philosophy is that once I die, I have no need to use up any more space or resources on Earth. Since I lead a whole life of resource and space consumption, why take up anymore? It seems rather selfish. Use the money, space and time on someone who is alive. That doesn't mean I just want my body dumped into a dumpster, but I want it to benefit people, so I wish to donate my body to science.

 

[unozero]

you want the deluxe package:




however ...



let me know if you have problems killing yourself before then



here's a sobering thought ..what if your capsule is fouind by some alien race. they have the technology to reanimate you however they've never seen a human and only have ashes to work with. you might wake up with your arm where your leg should be or your penis on your forehead

I giggled irl