We are all going to die

[blackrat]

I buried an opossum which I found dead in my back garden a couple of days ago and I did what I always do, I buried it in a shallow grave. I checked on it today and the grave was heaving with maggots. This of course is natural and part of life cycles.
But, if we as humans want to be buried whole, we can expect that in a couple of days in the ground our bodies will also become a feast for the maggots and our once lovely bodies will be heaving with them - out the eyes and mouth and then the skin. No matter we were buried in a box - a coffin is no problem for the maggots.
The only way to deprive the maggots of feasting on your body is to be cremated. Happy thought.

 

[Brandane]

Re title - nothing is more certain. And when it does inevitably happen, I have no desire to be put in a hole in the ground. Burning for me.

 

[Oldhippy]

I'm going back to my home planet.

 

[The Crofted Crest]

I'm going to live forever, or die in the attempt.

 

[postman]

Cremate me and i want my ashes chucked in front of the stone which leads in to Otley,when get there on my bike i always smile.I love Otley.You cant miss the stone it is just after you leave the roundabout.I might have to contact the Parish Council.

 

[Drago]

It'll probably be my high cholesterol that gets me, so when I go im being hung up for the budgies to peck on.

 

[Emanresu]

It'll probably be my high cholesterol that gets me, so when I go im being hung up for the budgies to peck on.

Aren't gibbets for that? Make sure you get one with a nice view.

 

[Punkawallah]

Allegedly. All the evidence to date seems to indicate I will, in fact, wake up tomorrow morning. And you can’t argue with the evidence, can you?

 

[Drago]

I take a solicitor view of creation, so when I die you lot are all done for.

 

[Fastpedaller]

It'll probably be my high cholesterol that gets me, so when I go im being hung up for the budgies to peck on.

Hmm, mine is just beyond the 'limit', but it was even higher 10 years ago (being able to access such records online is revealing). Nurse said my Q risk (cvd related ie heart attack or stroke) comes out at over 10, so I should take statins. I asked why this wasn't highlighted 10 years ago (got no answer), so I suggested that as I haven't gone in the last 10 years, I'll take my chances. I then started looking at this Q risk thing (and how it's calculated) online. It's based partly on BMI - mine shows as highish, although I don't have much fat at all any more, having lost 7kg during the last year (unsure if this lower weight was taken into consideration). My muscle raises the BMI, and the Q risk is based on the average risk for the population with the same BMI consisting of a lot of fat. I'll take my chances without medication.

 

[Drago]

Hmm, mine is just beyond the 'limit', but it was even higher 10 years ago (being able to access such records online is revealing). Nurse said my Q risk (cvd related ie heart attack or stroke) comes out at over 10, so I should take statins. I asked why this wasn't highlighted 10 years ago (got no answer), so I suggested that as I haven't gone in the last 10 years, I'll take my chances. I then started looking at this Q risk thing (and how it's calculated) online. It's based partly on BMI - mine shows as highish, although I don't have much fat at all any more, having lost 7kg during the last year (unsure if this lower weight was taken into consideration). My muscle raises the BMI, and the Q risk is based on the average risk for the population with the same BMI consisting of a lot of fat. I'll take my chances without medication.

Blimey, you cant waste time arguing with the nurse when you have so little time left!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I have been looking at the evidence and I have a sample of over 20,000 days of data

and on every single one I have woken up perfectly alive

In the whole sample I have never woken up dead

so base don the stats I will live for ever

 

[classic33]

I've been, and come back. It's not the be all and end all everyone seems to think.

 

[postman]

I was in church one Sunday when suddenly there was a flash of light, a puff of smoke, and the stench of sulphur. When the smoke cleared, there was the Devil standing in our midst. Everyone ran for the doors, but I just stayed in my seat.

The Devil said, "You know who I am, boy?"

"Yeah, i know you by your stink "

"Then why aren't you afraid of me?

" Because i was married to your Sister for eight years".

 

[oxoman]

I told my kids to either chuck me in a hole at the bottom of the garden and let nature do its thing or I'd leave my body to the medical profession for training. They're all mortified, I did point out there both low cost or zero cost options and it means they get more inheritance, there reply was the government would only rob it.