A New Scientist article explains it for various methods.

What do you prefer?

I'll take in my sleep any day. Less messy for the folks that find you!

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Unless they find you by the smell...

my husband found one or two by the smell when he managed an apartment complex years ago. what you smell is nothing compared to what you see, according to him.

Ewww.. I cannot begin to imagine.. brrr..

yeah, kind of like human jello

Can't really say I have a preference, but I'd really not like to be murdered. I don't want people who love me to be tortured by thoughts of how I was feeling or what I was thinking while it was happening to me.










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I don't want people who care about me (I am not loved by anybody... I guess) to see me dead or to come to my funerary service if it's going to be one. (good luck with that one... everyone will want to make sure I'm really dead)

I told my dad that IF I were to die before him I don't want an open casket. They can say they care about me before I die.


Of course this is not for close next of kin (like bro, gramps and dad), but for everyone else, yes, closed.

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I'm going to be cremated. I figure I've taken up enough space in my life, I don't want to take up any in death. I told them not to have a funeral for me because I find the whole practice morbid. They can say nice things about me when they spread my ashes if they want, but forget the other stuff. Who knows what they'll do?



I'm sure that somebody loves you, Adrian.

That's a nice thing to say...

i've thought about funeral services and decided that i don't want a funeral.
i've had to plan a funeral from scratch and collaborate on two other funerals and it seems like such a lot to go through, on top of mourning for the loss and the unpleasant tasks of going through material remnants (private and otherwise) of people's lives, that i would like to spare my husband or my daughter as much of it as possible.
i plan to give things away as i get older, in the hopes that they won't have to wade through too many possessions or attend a complicated reading of a will. i don't want a funeral service; if someone has loved me, i'd rather have it demonstrated during my lifetime. i also feel that if i want to be alive in someone's memories that it would be hard for anyone to have memories that have to co-exist with memories of me lying dead before them in a casket - that's what i have memories of...someone being part of my life: laughing, sitting around the dinner table, holidays and then other memories of those people lying still, like empty shells. it's a sad contrast to remember.

Yeah.. I remember that about my mother. It took me WEEKS to get past that and see her as she was alive again.