Not Viking funerals really, I'm good with them. burning barges while wasteful seem dope.

On a global ecological type level though I feel like our more common funeral customs (embalmed burial or cremation) are basically a final fuck you to the world we live in.

We been eating plants and animals basically non-stop since we left our moms' tits and as our last act most people basically say thanks for all the nourishment, world, I got between 95 and 295 pounds of meat bones and other matter that could be consumed to sustain life in the ecosystem and I'm going to either poison the ever loving shit out of it and put it in a $7000 box or burn it up using fossil fuels and pulverize what bits remain in to dust.

I'm fucked up but that's fucked up. Ain't it? Iono man. It's all fucked up.

i still blame hip-hop.

sky burial ftw

But I'm certainly open to the idea they got it right.

Edit:' yea Wiki'd sky burial and i can def get along with this.

i still blame hip-hop.

but makes sense on several levels

But I expect it's illegal as hell in America

i still blame hip-hop.

I'm likely to get cremated by my family tho and I'm alright with that.

Anything over "traditional" burial with embalming.

as "special"


the idea that we need to protect the body in a certain way to prepare it for whats beyond instead of relinquishing to the earth as is natural.

Any logic I can comprehend.

Maybe we are inhabited by divine souls that require special treatment for passage to an afterlife but it seems less likely than that we're destroying the very elements that connect us to our world and our universe.

i still blame hip-hop.

>Not Viking funerals really, I'm good with them. burning
>barges while wasteful seem dope.
>
>On a global ecological type level though I feel like our more
>common funeral customs (embalmed burial or cremation) are
>basically a final fuck you to the world we live in.
>
>We been eating plants and animals basically non-stop since we
>left our moms' tits and as our last act most people basically
>say thanks for all the nourishment, world, I got between 95
>and 295 pounds of meat bones and other matter that could be
>consumed to sustain life in the ecosystem and I'm going to
>either poison the ever loving shit out of it and put it in a
>$7000 box or burn it up using fossil fuels and pulverize what
>bits remain in to dust.
>
>I'm fucked up but that's fucked up. Ain't it? Iono man. It's
>all fucked up.

I wonder how much of it is the fault of the deceased rather than those left behind though.

Just IMO though.

And I'd certainly agree it's more about the feelings of those left behind than the wishes of the deceased.

He'll even when the wishes of the deceased are clearly articulated prior to death I tend to think a lot of those wishes are designed to accommodate the feelings of those still living.

i still blame hip-hop.

http://www.urbandeathproject.org/

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fairweather

With this and various natural burial options i think it's great people are giving this some thought.

I halfway expected a lot of really dismissive replies in this post. More than halfway, really. This has been a (positive) unexpected response.

i still blame hip-hop.

Then plant a native tree over my gravesite as a natural tombstone and let my body decompose to the soil to feed the tree and nature.

No one beyond my grandchildren will remember me or come and visit my grave site anyways.

fuck you.