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whats the cheapest legal way to dispose of my dead body so i can stick it to the funeral industry?

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  • O [email protected]

    This is a very sad two sentence story.

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    Yeah had to read it twice 😑

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    • Y [email protected]

      The cheapest method is to abandon the body. People die without family all the time and the State has a method to dispose of unclaimed corpses. Cost $0

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      That doesn't stick it to the industry though. Still gets them paid. It's not about saving the money from what I can tell

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        fuck thousands for a coffin. or hundreds for an urn. can i legally be burried in butcher paper?

        can i donate my body to science and skip burrial all together?

        i want my final action to be a big middle finger to the funeral industry picking on people in their weakest moments.

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        Do you have access to a woodchipper?

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        • P [email protected]

          fuck thousands for a coffin. or hundreds for an urn. can i legally be burried in butcher paper?

          can i donate my body to science and skip burrial all together?

          i want my final action to be a big middle finger to the funeral industry picking on people in their weakest moments.

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          You ever see those old videos and photos of the monks protesting the Vietnam war…or you could do a sky funeral.

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          • P [email protected]

            fuck thousands for a coffin. or hundreds for an urn. can i legally be burried in butcher paper?

            can i donate my body to science and skip burrial all together?

            i want my final action to be a big middle finger to the funeral industry picking on people in their weakest moments.

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            If you really want to stick it to the funeral industry, and you're including crematoriums and all other aspects in that, I think the only option is burial at sea.

            Put it in your will that you want your friends and family to go on a deep-sea fishing cruise. Specify they must bring you along, and once they reach the approved and legal dumping location and have you naked and weighted so you sink, they can raise their glasses, make a toast, and pitch you over the side.

            Meant to include this link:

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burial_at_sea

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            • W [email protected]

              You ever see those old videos and photos of the monks protesting the Vietnam war…or you could do a sky funeral.

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              what is a sky funeral?

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                fuck thousands for a coffin. or hundreds for an urn. can i legally be burried in butcher paper?

                can i donate my body to science and skip burrial all together?

                i want my final action to be a big middle finger to the funeral industry picking on people in their weakest moments.

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                Water cremation can be pretty cheap IF it's legal where you are

                https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_cremation

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                  what is a sky funeral?

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                  Is that where buzzards eat you?

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                  • P [email protected]

                    fuck thousands for a coffin. or hundreds for an urn. can i legally be burried in butcher paper?

                    can i donate my body to science and skip burrial all together?

                    i want my final action to be a big middle finger to the funeral industry picking on people in their weakest moments.

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                    Donation to a hydraulic press and/or hispeed cam YouTube channel

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                    • P [email protected]

                      fuck thousands for a coffin. or hundreds for an urn. can i legally be burried in butcher paper?

                      can i donate my body to science and skip burrial all together?

                      i want my final action to be a big middle finger to the funeral industry picking on people in their weakest moments.

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                      I don't know the cost but I kind of want to be composted. That's a thing.

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                        what is a sky funeral?

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                        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial
                        It’s the most metal thing ever!

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                        • Y [email protected]

                          You can shop around for crematoriums near you. Most of them in the US pick up the body as part of their fee. $300-800 to cremate a body. They mail you the ashes in a plastic bag. Some will offer urns, but that's an extra charge you can skip. Most states don't consider burying ashes the same as burying a body. Different laws. You can prepay, and have a card in your wallet with the company's info on it in case someone stumbles upon your body.

                          My wife and I have spoken about what we want done. My plan for her is to cremate her, then go to a local nursery and find a nice hearty, long living, low-maintenance flowering tree she would have liked and plant her and the tree in my back yard.

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                          Please note the larger/heavier you are the more it can cost. Also most medical programs don't like to take overweight bodies for dissection programs as they are harder to keep/work with.

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                            Donation to a hydraulic press and/or hispeed cam YouTube channel

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                            Vot de fuk!?!?

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                              fuck thousands for a coffin. or hundreds for an urn. can i legally be burried in butcher paper?

                              can i donate my body to science and skip burrial all together?

                              i want my final action to be a big middle finger to the funeral industry picking on people in their weakest moments.

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                              I think the cheapest way here (the Netherlands) is around €750-900 and you are burned in a (fairly strong) paper bag or cardboard coffin I think.

                              But to be fair I don't care, i'm dead anyway, I don't have insurance for it, and if there is anyone left around me by then they can do whatever they want or not do anything. I don't have kids so they can't stick the bill to anyone.

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                                fuck thousands for a coffin. or hundreds for an urn. can i legally be burried in butcher paper?

                                can i donate my body to science and skip burrial all together?

                                i want my final action to be a big middle finger to the funeral industry picking on people in their weakest moments.

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                                I agree with this sentiment. It's insane to me that people need to cough up thousands of dollars to see their loved one off. It's so wrong, although I do accept that funeral providers can't simply give away their services for free. I would support a taxation that had a provision for funerary needs for all citizens. Universal death care. I mean, we're all gonna die. It's not like you can say "oh boo hoo I'm paying all this tax just for some other cunt to die on my dime??" because your day will come soon enough and you don't want your family having to blow their savings on putting you in a hole.

                                I wanna be harvested for organs like a Chinese dissident, and whatever is left can be mulched and used to grow trees or something.

                                But if we're talking "cheapest", in the UK and Ireland there's a pauper's grave thing where the state will put you in a very basic grave and with a very basic marker. Not sure if you need to be poor to qualify, or if they'll just do it when asked.

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                                • N [email protected]

                                  If you really want to stick it to the funeral industry, and you're including crematoriums and all other aspects in that, I think the only option is burial at sea.

                                  Put it in your will that you want your friends and family to go on a deep-sea fishing cruise. Specify they must bring you along, and once they reach the approved and legal dumping location and have you naked and weighted so you sink, they can raise their glasses, make a toast, and pitch you over the side.

                                  Meant to include this link:

                                  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burial_at_sea

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                                  That sounds like a good way to stick it to the funeral industry given that deep-sea fishing cruise is probably not cheap 👏

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                                    fuck thousands for a coffin. or hundreds for an urn. can i legally be burried in butcher paper?

                                    can i donate my body to science and skip burrial all together?

                                    i want my final action to be a big middle finger to the funeral industry picking on people in their weakest moments.

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                                    Check Caitlin Doughty's "Ask A Mortician" videos, in addition to some of the other suggestions.

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                                      If you really want to stick it to the funeral industry, and you're including crematoriums and all other aspects in that, I think the only option is burial at sea.

                                      Put it in your will that you want your friends and family to go on a deep-sea fishing cruise. Specify they must bring you along, and once they reach the approved and legal dumping location and have you naked and weighted so you sink, they can raise their glasses, make a toast, and pitch you over the side.

                                      Meant to include this link:

                                      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burial_at_sea

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                                      Out of all the options, this one seems like the best to fulfill OPs intentions, although if you dont know someone with a boat, it does not make it cheaper.

                                      Plus. funerals are for the living, not the dead. Some families may want more than GPS coordinates as a headstone (or they will need to put one elsewhere).

                                      I personally would be fine with this disposal method for myself, assuming it was not too inconvienent or costly for others.

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                                        Donation to a hydraulic press and/or hispeed cam YouTube channel

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                                        WILL IT BLEND!?

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                                          I don't know the cost but I kind of want to be composted. That's a thing.

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                                          I'll compost you bro.

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