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I would want cremation. Cremation and a simple marker. I wouldn't be buried at all at my marker, because I would actually want my ashes spread in two separate places. One is somewhere in my hometown and the other spot, probably around the recreational area of my middle school, where I had commonly found peace at.

My marker would have a Red Sox emblem, signifying fan for life to that team. The other symbol would probably be a resemblance of rebirth/reincarnation as a reflection of my beliefs, so presumably a phoenix would go there. Not entirely sure what exactly I'd want written on the marker. Debating on a personal quote or just say "Logged off for the last time" which references from all of the time I've spent being online.

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[–] huquad@lemmy.ml 1 points 44 minutes ago

Acclerated to supersonic velocities at very specific people, you know the ones

[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Cremation, then throw my ashes in the faces of people on a list that will be provided.

Not so much what I want done with my corpse but what I'd like to do with my life; die on Mars.* Even if it means lithobraking into Olympus Mons due to a miscommunication about imperial and metric units.

However, I have a few other ideas as well.

Most epic; funeral pyre boat.

Most metal; feed my corpse into a woodchipper and use the viscera for fertilizer.

Most likely; buried a bit shallow under a young sapling.

*: Excellent album by the Callous Daoboys

[–] kinther@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Cremation. Simple urn. Spread my ashes in the mountains.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Preserve me until we figure out how to put consciousness into a robot body and then make me look like the Major from GITS.

Or fire my preseved body into the depths of space so another intelligence can work on it.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Put me in a haunted house. Use my skeleton to scare people or in movies or whatever.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Hang my bones up in one of those ossuary chapels where the walls are covered in skulls

[–] CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I want to be cremated, I don't care what happens after that. I tell my wife to just put me in the bin.

[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 2 points 4 hours ago

Don't care, I'll be dead anyway. Do whatever.

[–] Pacrat173@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

In the wise words of Frank Reynolds

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

trashs are collected every 15days we I am, so in winter it's okay, but in summer I'll dump you somewhere else

[–] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 hours ago

My dead naked body should be catapulted at Mar-a-Lago.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 33 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

I want to be scattered at Disneyland (note: I do not wish to be cremated).

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

Weekend at Bernie's style around It's a Small World?

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

i wonder if anyone has invented the meat chipper

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Oh yes, I was just commenting on the fact that a wood chipper seemed a bit inefficient when it comes to the harder bits of an unused corpse. Perhaps it would be more pertinent, then, to describe this non-existing-as-of-yet invention as a bone chipper.

*I mean, there is that machine that grinds up offal into hot dog paste, but that's rather slow. We need something with more pizzazz.

[–] modus@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Most landscapers have one.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They don't like that. Whoever scatters then might win a lifetime ban.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

Not my problem.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 points 9 hours ago

Donate the useful bits to others, use me for science, then turn me into compost.

[–] TotallyNotSpezUpload@startrek.website 30 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Getting tossed in a hole with a tree planted on top so it can consume my remains.

This but mushrooms.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

based

I thought about the tree thing alot.

I mean coffins seem so lame... tree is new life, its kinda beautiful in a way that is hard ti explain

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[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Launch my corpse at a dead planet with water or ice, see if my bacterial colonies eventually seed new life.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Don't have to even be dead, I just want to be launched into the sun because that would be pretty rad.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Due to gravity and your point of origin being earth (which is moving suprisingly fast), its actually very difficult to actually hit the sun...

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 hours ago

Oh it'd cost an absolute shitload of delta v, but that doesn't make me want it less.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 points 10 hours ago

9/10 men can't find the sun

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[–] MuttMutt@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

About 1/3 will be combined with my wife and her dog who have already passed. Another 1/3 will be combined with my fiancé. These will be scattered in a few different places that are special to us.

The final 1/3 is to be combined with concrete and made into ice cube sized pieces to be taken to different reefs around the world by whomever will take them.

I currently carry a tiny portion of my wife and her dog with me everywhere.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 hours ago

I'm sorry for your loss.

There's something beautiful about having a plan that detailed to acknowledge that much love you have shared.

[–] Steve@communick.news 12 points 13 hours ago

I wouldn't even know what people did.

But maybe...
Hide pieces of my body in the vents of Mar a lago.
Let them rot and stink up the place.

[–] wirelesswire@lemmy.zip 6 points 11 hours ago

I don't care, I'll be dead. Whatever is cheapest and simplest.

[–] Norin@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Cremate me and stick the ashes in a nice chunk of woods

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 hours ago

don't give a shit

take my organs, practice cutting me up, burn the rest or bury me under a tree that you'll see grow for decades

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

Whatever is the most ecologically sound method of disposal.

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

I want to be left in a strangers car trunk.

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 13 hours ago

I'm not here, physically couldn't give a shit

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 2 points 9 hours ago

High explosives. At least I could go out with a good bang.

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

There's a burial forest near here, I'll be quite happy there. No markers, no embalment, no coffin, just a shroud and trees.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 6 points 13 hours ago

Compost. I don't really care about a marker or whatnot either. Maybe, if I had to; a cherub with a solar powered pump that periodically pees on [billionaires] grave stone or maybe just a simple stone with this meme but, eh. Won't matter to me after the fact because I am not.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago

I intend to leave requests for some minor crimes related to my cremated ashes, in my will.

Nothing too serious, just enough to fuck with whoever executes my will. To...uh... remind them I was thinking of them, and maybe to make them a tiny bit relieved to be rid of my bullshit.

[–] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

Seems like we all want to be as nutrient-conserved as possible! It's too bad there are all the rules about proper disposal - I get why they're there, but yeah, random hole for me. Tree on top sounds great

[–] CathyBikesBook@piefed.zip 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Cremation and organ donation. Already written in my living will and communicated to my remaing family

[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Be sure and double-check the order of those two

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Launched from the solar system on a path out of the galaxy. Or left in the wilderness for nature to have it's way.

[–] toomanypancakes@piefed.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Cremated, composted, something like that. I'll be dead so I'm not too picky. Just as long as nobody wastes money on a fucking coffin.

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Organ donation or medical/scientific use. Whatever parts are not useful can be disposed of in whatever way is easiest.

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