A) Funeral, casket and burial, or B) Get myself taxidermied ?

  • @[email protected]
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    341 month ago

    Direct Cremation but if you don’t mind your body going out of your family’s control donating your body to science or a body farm for forensic anthropologist. It can be free.

    • Em Adespoton
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      181 month ago

      Came here to say this; cremation is the cheapest that leaves your family with an object; leaving your body to science can be zero-cost (costs paid by the institution of choice).

    • MrsDoyle
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      161 month ago

      I’ve signed up for donation for dissection. One slight caveat is that the institution - in my case a medical school - can decline to take your body if you’ve died of something infectious or if it’s been too damaged, eg in a crash. If all goes well, they collect the body, and when they’re finished with it they have it cremated. Family can have the ashes if they want. There’s a nice memorial garden with the names of donors. It’s all free… I mean, this is the medical school where Burke and Hare sold their murder victims, so they’re quite grateful to get your corpse for nothing.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 month ago

      Seconded on donating. It was free when I needed it for a family member and they sent a really lovely memorial letter. It listed all the things the donations went to like helping to restore sight in a veteran. You also still receive the cremated remains afterwards. Its a great option.

  • @[email protected]
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    191 month ago

    Die without an estate and tell your survivors not to claim your body. The government will take care of your final disposition.

    • FarraigePlaisteachOP
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      181 month ago

      I could die with those glasses that have the nose and moustache attached. Nobody world recognise me.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 month ago

      Depends on where you live. In Germany the government will of course take care of the burial of no one else does it, but parents or children are responsible for whatever burial cost is left after using the estate, even if they refused the inheritance.

  • @[email protected]
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    101 month ago

    Just in case you’re serious, taxidermy is not a good option if you want a faithful representation of how you look like. Taxidermy often results in not exactly the same look something had when they where living because replicating exactly the bones and cartilage to put the skin over is not easy.

    This is OK for some random wild animal you don’t care about representing the individual it once was, but for pets it usually results in unsatisfactory results, and for people it’s just very uncanny because our brains are very good with human faces.

    • FarraigePlaisteachOP
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      31 month ago

      Thanks. That’s kind of you and I appreciate it. I was being humorous but I did start to wonder if would make a comically gruesome feature for a funeral.

      We decided not to get a pet taxidermied in the past for the same reason you mentioned.

      Thanks again for being so decent.

  • Monkey With A Shell
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    91 month ago

    I rather like the notions of composting or just being planted in the dirt with a bunch of trees. Not sure on the rules or costs though.

  • Squigglez
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    91 month ago

    Get yourself taxidermied by the one and only Chuck Testa, and have your body posted up by a Walmart to scare the local community.

  • @[email protected]
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    31 month ago

    Have your corpse wrapped in a tarp and weighted down with concrete blocks from a construction site, and have it tossed in an abandoned quarry. That’s probably about the cheapest way; should only cost about $10 for the tarp, and then gas money.

    • FarraigePlaisteachOP
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      21 month ago

      I like that one, thanks. I could probably enlist an apprentice serial killer to help with that. Although I’m not sure how I’ll issue him with his certificate.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 month ago

    Don’t? It won’t be financially great for whoever has to deal with it, but it will cost you $0.

    • bluGill
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      21 month ago

      If you have loved ones who will be financially worse off without you then this is important. Make it easy for them to grieve without worries about paying all the costs.

      even if nobody is finencially worse off without you taking care of this now saves them from preditors in the funeral industry. However this really one makes sense when you are old enough to know where life has setteled everyone - otherwise you might move and now your funeral is someplace where nobody rememberes you.