A good case for cremation rather than burial.

[Brandane]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-33832488
Poor old Juan Manuel Fangio; so much for RIP..

When my time comes, I think it will be off to the crematorium with me, at least that makes things final and there can be none of this nonsense years after your death. Who knows what they might come up with in the future which could lead to your DNA being used to grow a "new you". Arghhh!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I agree entirely, it's a Viking burial boat ablaze on the Orwell or nothing for me.

 

[Dayvo]

If I (or whoever has to pay for it) can afford it, I'd like to go this way: freeze dried

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-10/14/promessa

 

[classic33]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-33832488
Poor old Juan Manuel Fangio; so much for RIP..

When my time comes, I think it will be off to the crematorium with me, at least that makes things final and there can be none of this nonsense years after your death. Who knows what they might come up with in the future which could lead to your DNA being used to grow a "new you". Arghhh!

There's an Italian led research team doing just that.

Let the dead rest in peace though.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I agree entirely, it's a Viking burial boat ablaze on the Orwell or nothing for me.

Ooooo - can I come for that? Should be a good pi$$ up

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Composting is the really green way. Some super crops of spuds and tomatoes for those left behind

 

[Saluki]

I agree entirely, it's a Viking burial boat ablaze on the Orwell or nothing for me.

So if the powers that be say 'no' to the blazing boat burial on the Orwell and you have to go with 'nothing' does that mean that someone will just leave you out on the compost heap in the garden?

 

[slowmotion]

If the Danes could run a power station on fish oil, I'm sure I could be turned into a few litres of bio-diesel.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378382008002166

 

[Bobby Mhor]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-33832488
Poor old Juan Manuel Fangio; so much for RIP..

When my time comes, I think it will be off to the crematorium with me, at least that makes things final and there can be none of this nonsense years after your death. Who knows what they might come up with in the future which could lead to your DNA being used to grow a "new you". Arghhh!

They can't improve 'perfection' sadly

Takes a new meaning to RIP (Rot in Peace)..
all for the vanity of a 'name'

 

[Flying Dodo]

If the Danes could run a power station on fish oil, I'm sure I could be turned into a few litres of bio-diesel.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378382008002166

Just think how long someone like Eric Pickles could keep a power station burning for............

 

[Dayvo]

Just think how long someone like Eric Pickles could keep a power station burning for............

The sooner the better: he's my home town's MP. Nobber.

 

[jefmcg]

If I (or whoever has to pay for it) can afford it, I'd like to go this way: freeze dried

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-10/14/promessa

Or you could just use a wood chipper


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bA6RmsV6R0

 

[Piemaster]

Seems a poor reason to disturb the guy to me. The two 'sons' will obviously feel differently but at 70? I hope I'm more concerned about practical stuff - whether I can still ride a bike and not pi55ing on my slippers.

Fangio still holds a French Grand Prix lap record. Admittedly it's at Reims 1951, in an Alfa 159.

 

[Elswick Cotterpin]

I just want to be twanged into the trees.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I'm donating any bits still useful to someone else, the rest is being cremated & I'm having my ashes sprinkled in the water that feeds the Lagavulin distillery. A tiny part of me may make it past the filters and into the whisky.