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[-] TautTwat@lemm.ee 62 points 5 months ago

My dream is to die with absolutely nothing but massive bank debt. I have no living relatives, so there is no one to get the money from. I mean, "Hello Mr. Twat you have terminal cancer" next stop is the bank to take out the biggest loan my excellent credit will let me get. Tom Selleck the house go to Vegas bet it all on black until it's gone return home and burn the house down around me fuck the bank...a boy can dream lol

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 24 points 5 months ago

Legally give a homeless person ownership of the house

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[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago

I'd totally do this if I had no family

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[-] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.world 41 points 5 months ago

Graveyards are a waste of space & good land. Land is for the living. Cremation is the way; it is clean, responsible, & considerate.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 months ago

. I'd rather be harvested for any useful organs if I have any left healthy enough to save someone, then the rest of me thrown in some kind of corpse compost or bio reactor or something.

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[-] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 5 months ago

For every person like you there may be a person like me that couldn’t care less to visit a grave. I can remember my fallen ones from anywhere.

Don’t want to sound callous but if you’re dead you’re dead to me too, like it’s a part of life. Just accept it and move on. I’m gonna die one day whoop whoop.

[-] Carnelian@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Maybe as a compromise, then, the people who care can do the thing and the people who don’t don’t have to?

[-] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 months ago

Sure, but if the argument is that graveyards take to much valuable space that could be used to house living humans.

Perhaps people should keep ashes in their own gardens etc and you can alsways go and do the things you do.

To be transparent, this isn’t something I have given a lot of thought to until I saw this thread.

[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Something I think I've seen in movies (mostly ones implied to be ancient japan) is a family grave. A single pillar driven into the ground with the family name and then everyone is cremated or something. Notable individuals for the family get a pillar next to it, but this could be a solution as first world countries reach the point where space is a premium. This allows families to mourn recently, and not-so-recently deceased.

Cyberpunk has the Columbariums - huge columns of thousands of cremated individuals, with a digital display for your Epitaph and name

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[-] Carnelian@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Suppose so, I feel like they’re pretty low on the list of land we could reclaim tho. Would rather go after golf courses first for example

[-] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago

Oh I agree that golf courses would be a priority. The same for office blocks where people can work from home.

I’m with mark twain on golf, it’s a good walk spoiled 😂

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[-] NewAgeOldPerson@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

There are composting options now I think.

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[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Clean? I would have said burial was more environmentally friendly.

[-] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

If they didn’t pump the bodies full of toxic chemicals and store them indefinitely in a piece of furniture, maybe.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Good points.

I will specify organs donated and Eco friendly coffin without embalming.

[-] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

I’m leaning towards one of those fungus suits, hopefully with a mango tree planted atop.

[-] Gormadt 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Those targeted ads aren't messing around

Edit: Personally I've already got an urn picked out for me. A probably too large coffee can of my favorite coffee brand.

I'd prefer it not get used for my ashes for at least a few more decades though.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Is there a Ralphs nearby?

[-] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

[-] FapFlop@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Come on, man. Fuck it. Let’s go bowling.

[-] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I don't care what happens to my corpse, because I'll be dead then. Never understood, why people still care nowadays, religion I guess.

[-] hrimfaxi_work@midwest.social 7 points 5 months ago

Ritual and ceremony are deeply important aspects of the human experience. What cultures do with their dead is way, way up there with foodways and adornment when it comes to cultural significance.

The increasingly common view in the West that elaborate death rites are unimportant is really new when compared to the rest of human history. It's probably a postmodern thing? If I'm right about that, that would mean the less reverential attitude towards traditional deatg ceremony is like 110ish years old.

Compared to the 200,000-300,000 years Homo Sapiens have been around (or 45,000 years ago if we only want to discuss the length of time that Northern European-style deathways have most likely been practiced), 100 years isn't a lot to change that cultural inertia.

Sorry, I know this is a Wendy's. Just a frosty, thanks.

[-] jwelch55@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

You can have the ceremony without being ripped off for thousands of dollars on a box nobody will ever see again

[-] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

Why the fuck have you been downvoted, that's just a reasonable comment.

May I also point out, your funeral isn't for you. You might not care what happens to your body but your close ones do. A funeral is a place for them to find closure, to grief and mourn your loss. The mere fact that people who cannot retrieve their lost one's body feel awfully about it and still tend to create empty graves should show how much this is a very old desire of importance. The way we perform these death rituals can change and maybe it is not about how a body is being get rid off per se, and surely we could change this. That we as a species are aware of what death means and have found ways to cope with it (i.e. rituals as a coping way to deal with the knowledge) is incredible.

Whenever people say something along these lines of "just throw me in the trash" it feels to me like they didn't get that point. It's not about you. It's about everyone else.

[-] hrimfaxi_work@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

Hey there! FYI I really appreciated this comment. The response to my comment here convinced me that Lemmy isn't really the place for me. I popped back today to look something up, and I wanted to make sure you got a friendly hello after seeing your response.

I totally agree with everything you said. Having shared practices for remembrance and an established "typical" way to demonstrate care for deceased people is a significant part of maintaining social cohesion and so useful for giving individuals an outlet for grief.

The way an entire industry has emerged to capitalize on loss and paij sickens me, but that part is a whole different conversation.

My education is in archaeoligy, and my primary interest was American deathways. I've probably spent more time thinking about contemporary death rites and remembrance than I've thought about anything else as an adult.

Anyway, I hope you're well! Keep on being a cool person.

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[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

Casket+ includes a lid! Only $59.99/hour (surge pricing if used between hours of 10pm and 8am)

Don't you love your dead relatives? Or are you cheap?

[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

When I'm dead just throw me in the trash

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 16 points 5 months ago

Paying for it after you need it seems like a bad business plan tbh.

[-] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 months ago

Cremation. Tubes for ashes. Instructions to friends and family where to toss me and maybe plant a tree.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

I want my remains spread at the happiest place on Earth, Disneyland.

Also, I don’t want to be cremated.

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 6 points 5 months ago

The final yeeeeeeet

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 12 points 5 months ago

Reddit is desperate for ads.

[-] coffee_with_cream@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago

Just take that $22 per month and invest it instead. You'd come out on top

[-] Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Death will be a subscription

[-] DarylDutch@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

It is, Grave plots are temporary.

[-] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

My grandpa handmade his coffin with some really nice walnut. Quilted the inside I believe. He's still kicking, so it gets used as a prop at Halloween

[-] psmgx@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Costco sells caskets. Seriously. Order one online on the cheap.

Best part? They have multiple (positive) reviews.

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

who is leaving those reviews? satisfied customers? Is internet access available to Costco customers after death?

[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

You get to keep them before you die. I'm assuming people have em in their garage and lay in them to test them out.

[-] SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

Caskets really need some design updates. They look so depressing.

[-] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 5 points 5 months ago

It's actually something good to invest in. My wife's grandmother did it in like the 80s, and all the family had to do was pick out sandwiches for the wake.

[-] Delphia@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

My dad really wasnt much of a dad, when my grandmother died and he got left a little money we had a pretty frank conversation "I never expected you to leave me a cent, because I never expected you to have one. So do me a favor, prepay your funeral with some of this money then piss the rest up the wall for all I care. Just dont stick me with a bill when you go."

[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

Can you not just 'leave it to his estate'? Are the next of kin legally responsible for that?

[-] Delphia@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Well... I AM the next of kin. Its not like I hate the man, he was just a pretty shitty dad. He has friends and family who would want a funeral to attend. I can legally speaking say "Not my problem" and the government will give him a free cremation and return the ashes to me or my sister but thats it.

Me getting him to prepay it wasnt just a smart investment for me, it also meant that he couldnt kick the bucket at the worst possible time and put me in a position where I had to chose between looking after the best interests of my family and keeping the mortgage paid OR giving him a decent send off. Because honestly, in that spot he would lose.

Selfishly I do hope he doesnt manage to spend it all, but knowing its paid is just something I know I dont need to worry about.b

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[-] Bye@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Laughs in cremation

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[-] shani66@ani.social 5 points 5 months ago

Hit me up when you die and I'll set you up a wooden box for $22 straight up, just a once time payment.

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Just throw me in the trash.

[-] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

https://neptunesociety.com/

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