42% of Americans eventually cremated

[Prison Bitch]

Per Forbes:

In 1960 the average cost of a funeral was $706 when only 3.56% of bodies were cremated. Today the average traditional funeral costs between $8,000 and $10,000, and about 42% of people are cremated.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/perianne...l-life-online/

[patteeu]

If I were choosing from a clean slate and money was no object, I'd be transformed into a LifeGem.

If I were choosing from a clean slate in reality, I'd just be cremated.

Since I've already paid for a burial plot, I'll probably just be buried (and that's how I voted), although if I can resell it someday, I might do that instead.

[Bob Dole]

Bob Dole has requested to be left seated in his recliner until KC wins a Super Bowl. That probably means Bob Dole will just rot and soak into a chair.

[Zebedee DuBois]

I opt for cremation. I think the embalming process is gross and unnecessary.

[Rudy tossed tigger's salad]

Wait... I'm going to die?

[bevischief]

Back in January the cheapest casket was about $7000, most were about in the $10000 dollar range. The cost to open the plot was around $6000 and burial.

[BWillie]

Actually, I've changed my mind. If my brain cannot be put into a vat. I want to be stuffed like a god damned deer and placed at a museum. I'll be put in a Hugh Heffner robe with a glass of scotch in one hand, and a stogie on the other while sitting on a huge Scarface throne chair.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by bevischief

Back in January the cheapest casket was about $7000, most were about in the $10000 dollar range. The cost to open the plot was around $6000 and burial.

Seems like a waste to spend so much on a box where my decaying carcass will reside. I give no shits after I'm dead and gone, about anything whatsoever.

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by patteeu

If I were choosing from a clean slate and money was no object, I'd be transformed into a LifeGem.

If I were choosing from a clean slate in reality, I'd just be cremated.

Since I've already paid for a burial plot, I'll probably just be buried (and that's how I voted), although if I can resell it someday, I might do that instead.

pretty much

my grandparents had an extra plot next to them and the asked me if i wanted to be buried by them. So i have a plot and all that extra stuff but it wouldn't be my first choice.

[mlyonsd]

The sun is eventually going to explode and cremate everyone's remains someday so there is that.

[bevischief]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Seems like a waste to spend so much on a box where my decaying carcass will reside. I give no shits after I'm dead and gone, about anything whatsoever.

Just glad my Dad bought his plot about 30 years ago. Then there is another $600 bucks to add his death date to his tombstone.

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by BCD

Donate my corpse to science.

Burn what you can't use.

http://medcure.org/

[Fat Elvis]

I don't think "Au naturel " means what you think it means when we are talking about dead people.

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by bevischief

Back in January the cheapest casket was about $7000, most were about in the $10000 dollar range. The cost to open the plot was around $6000 and burial.

To be fair, though, the plot is REALLY nice

[cdcox]

I knew a woman who was body farmed.

[Why Not?]

Have someone rent a boat, cruise out a mile or so in the ocean. Drop my dead ass in Davey Jones' locker. Don't want my family spending a cent on my carcass