AllieBaba
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I kinda like the idea of a viking burial. Toss my ass on a wooden rickety boat, set it afire and shove it off to burn on the water.
Chances are it would just wash back up about 50 yards down the shore. Probably on a stretch of beach where feral dogs hang out, lol.
There are some Tibetans (I think) who feed their dead to the vultures, which in all is probably a pretty intelligent way to handle things. I think they then collect up the bones and maybe burn them or something.
New Orleans has always had a terrible problem with the disposal of the dead because not only have they historically had large numbers of people die off here and there but the water table is so high that frequently, the buried people don't stay buried. They sort of pop back up. That would be fun.
Death holds no horror for me, and I'm not particularly concerned about the impact our dead bodies have on the Earth. I'm not all that keen about everyone dumping their dead people in the water, though. Blech.
I will bury my loved ones, and eventually I will be buried, in a traditional grave, in simple caskets.
I'm a fan of tradition, for the most part, and like the connection that time honored rituals provide. I find funerals comforting; they provide an appropriate outlet for grief and for commiserating with loved ones over a loss, and a proper venue for saying goodbye. Nothing irritates me so much as people who have loving families who idiotically refuse to have a funeral service out of *respect* for the dead, who in their misguided stoicism have commanded that the family bury them with no ceremony.
Death deserves a ceremony, and the people who remain do, too.