I want to know how I can be turned into a diamond! I like that idea :^O

oopps clicked too soon. 

Then nobody would want to get rid of me :^O

Cremating seems quite awful to me eg  being burnt - but I do like that ashes are the final result

Being buried in a coffin - seems awful too - claustrophobic in fact, and I do not like the idea of slowly rotting in a confined space,  either.

I do like the idea of a 'field burial' - so out in the countryside  somewhere  - no typical coffin, except for a handmade wicker coffin, and only a cotton sheet - everything is designed to decompose naturally.

No headstone - only flowers planted.

I think I prefer the idea of decomposing naturally in the countryside.

This is offered in the UK now.

Mum was cremated - when she died last year - I still have not picked up her ashes - I can't bring myself to do so.

The place has written a letter asking me to pick them up, but I rang and said I can't do it yet.

I don't know what to do.

cremated... no way do I want to be in a coffin, in the ground , with bugs eating me... 

family can do what they want with the ashes... 

and I do not want a church service... maybe just a nice goodbye at the funeral home and then off to chamber... 

I hope when I die that my family will give me whatever send off brings them the most comfort. I'm pretty sure I won't be there hovering over the ceremony to see whether they've carried out my wishes.

Ele that's my wishes as well. I will let my family decide my send off.

ashjoma, that field burial is exactly what I want!

pretty sure there's somewhere in oz where you get buried with a tracking device, so future family can still find your resting place in the bush.or there was talk of it happening?

A body farm sounds good to me

Mum was cremated - when she died last year - I still have not picked up her ashes - I can't bring myself to do so.

The place has written a letter asking me to pick them up, but I rang and said I can't do it yet.

I don't know what to do.

Honey, if it's too painful, you don't actually have to do anything. Uncollected ashes are eventually scattered to the winds by the Crematorium staff.

We left them to do that with my mum's ashes. We looked at all the options and since she had specifically asked for ABSOLUTELY NO FUSS (yes, in those tones lol) we decided to grant her wish.  We didn't feel bad about it, and I'm sure she would have approved.

It's cremation all the way for me. I like the idea of fire as cleansing for the soul and the thought of decomposing in a box makes me shudder.

When my mum died we had her body cremated. We picked up the ashes and asked if we could scatter them under a rose bush on the crematorium grounds. The guy said yeah of course, led us to a nice garden and handed us the container. Perhaps we should have brought our own garden implements? 😐

So we got down in the mulch, dug a small hole with our bare hands and we all took turns pouring the ashes in. Yes, the wind blew mum's ashes into our faces and hair and yes, we got some of mum under our fingernails. But it wasn't gross. It was quite 'earthy' and spiritual.

Then dad died and we had him cremated. Us 'girls' argued over where to scatter his ashes.  That was 2 years ago and nobody wants to talk about it.  :^O

As a Buddhist I guess I could have a sky burial. But it's kinda gross and I don't want to end up as birdy poop, which is the idea.

Cremation is the cheapest, and that is what I want, my son and my mother and my maternal grandparents are all scattered on a rose garden at large cemetary here in Melbourne.