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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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    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 a viking funeral. You know, that ceremony where you are sent out in a boat and a fire arrow is fired into the boat so it burns down while floating into the sunset.

    But skip the boat. Have someone chuck you into the ocean and shoot arrows at you until you sink.

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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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      Live with cats. They will take care of it.

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      • ivanafterall@lemmy.worldI [email protected]

        God that sounds so nice.

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        Well, in my mind it's freezing to death on a side walk pressed against a wall trying to stay under the one unobstructed over hang.

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          i will donate my body to a necrophilia foundation

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          Holy shit, can those even exist anywhere? You got me thinking. It feels like a potential rabbit hole.

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            i will donate my body to a necrophilia foundation

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            But which one would you choose there are so many

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            • drunkanroot@sh.itjust.worksD [email protected]

              have your homies smoke your ashes in a blunt

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              Ashes don't burn any further. That is why they are ashes.

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                i will donate my body to a necrophilia foundation

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                https://web.archive.org/web/19980505180543/http://prop.taz.net.au/Journalism/Necrophilia/.html

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                • bamboodpanda@lemmy.worldB [email protected]

                  Science Vs. did a great episode on Human Composting a few years back. It's really touching and highlights a fantastic way to convert your death into life.

                  Here is a link to the episode.
                  https://open.spotify.com/episode/6reXXkhnvGxpSvnCz8wP2c

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                  “It is every citizen’s final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people.”

                  Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, “Ethics for Tomorrow”

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                  • O [email protected]

                    Do a viking funeral. You know, that ceremony where you are sent out in a boat and a fire arrow is fired into the boat so it burns down while floating into the sunset.

                    But skip the boat. Have someone chuck you into the ocean and shoot arrows at you until you sink.

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                    I want to be launched into the ocean with a catapult

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                      Have nothing of value left when you die and make sure your relatives refuse ownership of anything. Leave it as a problem for the state to deal with.

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                      Have nothing of value left

                      Debt with scummy companies is much better.

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                      • swelter_spark@reddthat.comS [email protected]

                        There are burial grounds that are basically natural parks, where you have to be buried in something biodegradable, like a shroud or pine needle basket, and no grave markers are allowed besides something like a tree or uncut rock. (Burial locations are recorded by gps.) I'd like to be buried in one of these places. Not sure what the cost is, though.

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                        Wouldn't that also be funeral industry

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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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                          When I die just throw me in the trash

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                            https://web.archive.org/web/19980505180543/http://prop.taz.net.au/Journalism/Necrophilia/.html

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                            What in the fuck did I just read?

                            Anyway the disclaimer at the bottom of the page is gold

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                            • B [email protected]

                              Donate everything still working and the rest goes to a medical school for practice.

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                              Do that and your organs will get sold from the back of a van

                              https://youtu.be/IjkqxZkaDZI

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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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                                No lie, i want a sky burial. Your body is split open and left on a mountainside populated by vultures, after a few days the villagers return and collect your bones, the only thing left. They grind your bones and mix them into crackers, which are then spread around the fields for birds to eat.
                                Your entire body goes back to the birds, i love it. My wife isn’t taking it seriously but I mean it, i want one of those

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                                • P [email protected]

                                  I probably should have said "safely" rather than just "sanitary", I was thinking about water burials and ground water contamination when I said that.
                                  And also just like... Leaving the body out in a public area.

                                  As long as you're not putting people in danger, and you're not disrespecting the deceased, what would be illegal?

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                                  Most states have laws indicating you must involve a funeral director to ensure the.body is disposed of properly, and then define the licensure requirements for a funeral director to include the types of disposal they can oversee.
                                  It means they don't need to define every type of burial you're not allowed to do, and there should be a qualified professional to ensure whatever you're doing is okay before you do it.

                                  The libertarian impulse to say that if it doesn't hurt anyone it should be legal butts into the reality that every time we have that policy for body disposal things tend to go funny in unexpected ways.

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                                    Well, in my mind it's freezing to death on a side walk pressed against a wall trying to stay under the one unobstructed over hang.

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                                    Please, I can only get so erect.

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                                    • B [email protected]

                                      Have nothing of value left

                                      Debt with scummy companies is much better.

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                                      Max out all your cards or tell your kids to do so. Buy stuff that is consumable so there are no assets to reclaim.

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                                        Most states have laws indicating you must involve a funeral director to ensure the.body is disposed of properly, and then define the licensure requirements for a funeral director to include the types of disposal they can oversee.
                                        It means they don't need to define every type of burial you're not allowed to do, and there should be a qualified professional to ensure whatever you're doing is okay before you do it.

                                        The libertarian impulse to say that if it doesn't hurt anyone it should be legal butts into the reality that every time we have that policy for body disposal things tend to go funny in unexpected ways.

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                                        No, I understand the need for laws around it, for people's safety.
                                        But the restrictions seem excessive, since it seems likely that there are only a few options for disposal that a funeral director can be licensed to do, rather than training them on what makes something un/safe and letting them use their judgement.
                                        And strange that they basically made laws that say you must use this private industry. If you're going to legislate that a particular service must be used, then that service should be a public service. But now we're getting off topic lol.

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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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                                          There's a book called "Stiff" by Mary Roach where she looks into all the various ways to (legally) dispose of your body.

                                          You can donate it to scientific research (my personal preference) and they will use it as a very accurate crash test dummy (usually).

                                          Things like the glass in car windows and car crumple zones were invented with the help of such donations, and she claims that on average 14 lives are saved by every body donated.

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