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Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14210
Location: Somewhere

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 8:04 am Post subject: When I go...
...I want to go this way! https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/4336100.stm

bagpuss

Joined: 09 Dec 2004
Posts: 10507
Location: cambridge

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 8:12 am Post subject:
Could be cool I like the Hunter S thompson idea of being fired out a cannon!

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14210
Location: Somewhere

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 8:26 am Post subject:

bagpuss wrote:

Could be cool

Yes, that's right folks; it's Friday - and the puns begin!

twoscoops

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 1924
Location: Warwickshire

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 8:53 am Post subject:
Ohh that looks great! Freeze dried, ground Twoscoops, turned into the compost heap.

Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 8:59 am Post subject:

Hmmm interesting but.....

1stly it would only save 16% of the mercury emmissions ( so I guess that big industry are the real bad boys with the real mercury problem that no one wants to offend by tackling)

2ndly With improved dental health, ie less fillings, give it a few years and the mercury content of the average body will drop anyways.

3rdly how much energy is used to freeze dry a body?

Personally I'm for a wicker coffin just put simply in a nice natural setting with a tree on top as per Behemoths article ( which I can't seem to link to despite 5 mins of trying to get it to work!

)

mrsnesbitt

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 1576

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 9:03 am Post subject:
check this site out https://www.naturaldeath.org.uk/

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 9:40 am Post subject:
I had always been adamant about wanting to be cremated, but I am warming to the idea of the greenfield burial site. There is one near us, and it is a beautiful place.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45674
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 9:42 am Post subject:
D'you reckon we could sell you as Ovaltine or summat?

bagpuss

Joined: 09 Dec 2004
Posts: 10507
Location: cambridge

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 9:42 am Post subject:

Judith wrote:

I had always been adamant about wanting to be cremated, but I am warming

to the idea of the greenfield burial site. There is one near us, and it is a beautiful place.

Its interesting, never really considered how my remains would be dealt with I guess my brain always filed it under I would be dead why would I care!

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 9:55 am Post subject:

bagpuss wrote:

Its interesting, never really considered how my remains would be dealt with I guess my brain always filed it under I would be dead why would I care!

That's what I always used to think too. I've been to a quite few funerals in the last couple of years. The last one was a burial - it was just so much nicer than the normal crematorium experience. I think that a beautiful site in the countryside would be a more pleasant experience for the people left behind.

Res

Joined: 07 Apr 2005
Posts: 1172
Location: Allotment Shed, Harlow

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 9:58 am Post subject:
I already know where I want to be scattered/buried, NT Waters Meet site, somerset, in the cream teas garden at the foot of a huge fir tree thats slap bang in the middle of the garden, which overlooks the two converging rivers. Absolutely amasing atmospere there

ele

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 814
Location: Derby

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 10:24 am Post subject:

I much prefer the idea of cremation because it's so quick and final, nobody has to even think about your grave and whether they should be visiting it. I don't have to worry about mercury fillings as I've already had those replaced. Unfortunately though cremation is bad in terms of energy usage compared to green burials as crematoriums are gas powered and being freeze dried is probably rather energy intensive too

I'd definitely want a cardboard coffin though, so at least I'd be a little bit green.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 10:28 am Post subject:
Er, If you've been reduced to a small amount of powder why do they bother with a lifesize coffin?

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 10:31 am Post subject:
Isn't the coffin for getting you from home to the place where you are reduced to powder?

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14210
Location: Somewhere

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 05 10:34 am Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

Er, If you've been reduced to a small amount of powder why do they bother with a lifesize coffin?

You'll still be the same volume (unless they de-frost and drain you) as you've been frozen, not burned.

You still wouldn't need a full size one - you could even pick a funky shape.

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