We are all going to die

[ebikeerwidnes]

See if you got time for a last pint

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula.../articles/lifeexpectancycalculator/2019-06-07

Bit dodgy that

just based on age and gender
not current health or family history or anything sensible

I used to know someone who always refused to be part of any pension scheme because everyone in both sides of his family had died before 65

so he was living his life on the assumption that he would do the same


I do wonder if he is now in his 80s and broke!!!

 

[Fastpedaller]

ISTR when I lived in Essex that local cyclists were expressing the wish for their ashes to be put by a milestone on the E1 TT course - I wonder if a large ash pile has been made?

 

[Jameshow]

The first person to reach the age of 200 has already been born, says Stuart Kim, Professor of Developmental Biology at Stanford University.

He said that about 10 years ago so the first person to 237 is also already born.

Maybe.

Mick Jagger.....

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

You want a sky burial

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial

Just try to climb Everest or something. Pretty much the same thing, only busier and with more expensive clothes (and probably w*nkier too).

 

[Webbo2]

Just try to climb Everest or something. Pretty much the same thing, only busier and with more expensive clothes.

I think it’s possible in Scotland, just don’t tell anyone where you are going.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I think it’s possible in Scotland, just don’t tell anyone where you are going.

Yes, some places are pretty remote, I wont lie (ok, I would lie, but a different kind of 'lie' ).

 

[presta]

Didn't Snowdonia national park recently isue a plea to stop people scattering human ashes? Apparently it's very heavy ash and doesn't disperse.

IME 90% of it's granulated bone.

 

[Webbo2]

IME 90% of it's granulated bone.

A popular place to throw one’s relatives ash is off the Cow and Calf on Ilkley moor. One of Yorkshire leading climbers Ron Fawcett was soloing a route there only to find someone was pouring ashes over him.
Resulting in one sooty climber and lots of embarrassed relatives.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Ron Fawcett was soloing a route there only to find someone was pouring ashes over him.

Was he on Mashters Edge?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

IME 90% of it's granulated bone.

Indeed, I found that out with the so called 'ashes' of our dogs.

 

[raleighnut]

Mick Jagger.....

Nah.........................Keef

 

[Vapin' Joe]

They say the first person to live to 200 has already been born.

They may find a way to keep the body functioning that long, but the brain will be addled long before that.

 

[Webbo2]

Was he on Mashters Edge?

I appreciate you are trying to make a joke but one’s Yorkshire the others is Derbyshire.

 

[blackrat]

A relative - sort of - died a year ago and was cremated and 'his' ashes were given to the family in a plastic bag inside a box. But here's the thing: Dead people (we assume - although there have been instances) are laid out on the trolley in their clothes (including shoes) inside a cheap box of some material (I have heard it is often cardboard) and set afire.
So, a - say - 12 stone bloke, fully dressed is reduced, together with all his accoutrements - false teeth? - to ashes, and ends up in plastic bag of no more than half a cubic foot and the grieving family are told, "Here is your dad".
Inside a crematorium the burner - is that the nomenclature of the incinerator chap? - shovels away the remains of the fire and sweeps a handful of the ashes into the bag and dumps the rest in a bin.
So, how much of the ashes you tearfully receive from the mortuary folk, is really dear old dad?

 

[mickle]

I'm currently doing my best not to die. I promised my step kids that i wouldn't so.