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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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      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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      A big part of your question hinges upon where you call home. Some countries have strickt restrictions.

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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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        Where I live the cheapest is to donate your body to science but it depends entirely on if the local university needs bodies or has storage capacity at the moment of death.

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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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          Donate your body to science. My mother did that. She used to joke that they would put her body in a car trunk in the desert, or some other location, and see what time and decay did so they could measure the process. For all I know, that's literally where her body is right now. They also do other experiments. Then, after a few years, they return cremated remains to you.

          Try to find an institution that will take your body. I've looked into it. There's a place in a neighboring state that will take mine, but if I die more than 100 miles from them, someone will need to arrange to transport the body to them. There's not much more to it for me.

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            Where I live the cheapest is to donate your body to science but it depends entirely on if the local university needs bodies or has storage capacity at the moment of death.

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            it depends entirely on if the local university needs bodies or has storage capacity at the moment of death.

            The problem is the solution: just die when there's capacity 👍

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              Donate your body to science. My mother did that. She used to joke that they would put her body in a car trunk in the desert, or some other location, and see what time and decay did so they could measure the process. For all I know, that's literally where her body is right now. They also do other experiments. Then, after a few years, they return cremated remains to you.

              Try to find an institution that will take your body. I've looked into it. There's a place in a neighboring state that will take mine, but if I die more than 100 miles from them, someone will need to arrange to transport the body to them. There's not much more to it for me.

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              Word of warning though, check out the company before you do so. My mother in law was in the medical field and had a coworker that did this. The company ended up refusing the body because they had too many bodies. I've also heard of your body being used to test munitions, which is pretty much the opposite of what a lot of people would want.

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                Donate your body to science. My mother did that. She used to joke that they would put her body in a car trunk in the desert, or some other location, and see what time and decay did so they could measure the process. For all I know, that's literally where her body is right now. They also do other experiments. Then, after a few years, they return cremated remains to you.

                Try to find an institution that will take your body. I've looked into it. There's a place in a neighboring state that will take mine, but if I die more than 100 miles from them, someone will need to arrange to transport the body to them. There's not much more to it for me.

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                Also keep in mind if this is your wish you can't be an organ donor. Having a rotting corpse without any organs is a pretty unrealistic scenario and the data isn't as useful.

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                  Word of warning though, check out the company before you do so. My mother in law was in the medical field and had a coworker that did this. The company ended up refusing the body because they had too many bodies. I've also heard of your body being used to test munitions, which is pretty much the opposite of what a lot of people would want.

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                  Yes, that is possible. The paperwork for the place I am looking into specifically asks if you object to that and a number of other possible uses to which they may put your remains.

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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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                    My son is in his water bottle. Never bought an urn from the crematorium.

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                      Word of warning though, check out the company before you do so. My mother in law was in the medical field and had a coworker that did this. The company ended up refusing the body because they had too many bodies. I've also heard of your body being used to test munitions, which is pretty much the opposite of what a lot of people would want.

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                      Hey look, once my body is donated it's not my business what they do with it. I'm the same way that once I hand over spare change to the guy on the street, it's not my business what he does with it.

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                        My son is in his water bottle. Never bought an urn from the crematorium.

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                        This is a very sad two sentence story.

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                          Hey look, once my body is donated it's not my business what they do with it. I'm the same way that once I hand over spare change to the guy on the street, it's not my business what he does with it.

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                          Sanity in the comments. Huh. Interesting find

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                            Word of warning though, check out the company before you do so. My mother in law was in the medical field and had a coworker that did this. The company ended up refusing the body because they had too many bodies. I've also heard of your body being used to test munitions, which is pretty much the opposite of what a lot of people would want.

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                            Hello Mythbusters? Hehe

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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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                              https://www.greenmatters.com/p/eco-friendly-burial-methods

                              https://www.cremation.green/green-burial-options/

                              https://canadianfunerals.com/guide-to-green-burial-in-canada/

                              https://environment.co/eco-friendly-funeral-options/

                              Should get you started.

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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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                                In Illinois you can get buried on your own property, I told my kids to claim my skull for the mantle and compost the rest.

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                                  Donate your body to science. My mother did that. She used to joke that they would put her body in a car trunk in the desert, or some other location, and see what time and decay did so they could measure the process. For all I know, that's literally where her body is right now. They also do other experiments. Then, after a few years, they return cremated remains to you.

                                  Try to find an institution that will take your body. I've looked into it. There's a place in a neighboring state that will take mine, but if I die more than 100 miles from them, someone will need to arrange to transport the body to them. There's not much more to it for me.

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                                  Among the other warnings here, if getting the cremains is important to you, be careful; my mother did this and we never got anything back. We almost didn't get anything of my father back, but my sister was tenacious.

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                                    Among the other warnings here, if getting the cremains is important to you, be careful; my mother did this and we never got anything back. We almost didn't get anything of my father back, but my sister was tenacious.

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                                    I don't understand why people care. My dad is gone. I can't get help fixing my roof from his urn. Some people do talk to the remains of their loved ones, but they can't hold a conversation so I have never seen the point.

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                                      Sure, I mostly agree with you, but some people do care. As such I just wanted to offer this warning.

                                      However, I do have the cremains for my dogs and my dad on a small, out of the way shelf in my living room. In my more down moments, it's been comforting to think of them as "there" even though I know they're not. Also it can be a focal point when I'm putting effort into remembering them. Finally, I have a young kid; having a physical object to point at helps with explaining death to them in gentler terms.

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                                        Yes, that is possible. The paperwork for the place I am looking into specifically asks if you object to that and a number of other possible uses to which they may put your remains.

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                                        Not that I’d personally care, but I don’t know that I’d trust that they wouldn’t just ignore those instructions. Who would call them out?

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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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                                          Who pays if you get so irradiated that you need to be buried in a lead casket, like the firefighters at Chernobyl?

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