The Eternal Cycle of Life: Nature, Death and Burial

[undidly]

Give away as many organs as you can.
In the future when cloning is legal you can be reborn from the DNA in the donated organs.
No memories of course but the same physical type and personality.
New you would also inherit all your wealth,leave it all to yourself.
Invested money would earn interest on which TAX would be payable.
Are you listening government,tax the dead.Get onto it.Cloning now.

I want the remaining bits to be partially cremated to kill any microbes that are dangerous
but not to burn the carbon.
The carbon would be in the form of charcoal which is a good soil conditioner and lasts
for 100,000 years or until burned.
New me could visit the charcoal and the plants that benefit from it.

 

[IcedEcliptic]

Give away as many organs as you can.
In the future when cloning is legal you can be reborn from the DNA in the donated organs.
No memories of course but the same physical type and personality.
New you would also inherit all your wealth,leave it all to yourself.
Invested money would earn interest on which TAX would be payable.
Are you listening government,tax the dead.Get onto it.Cloning now.

I want the remaining bits to be partially cremated to kill any microbes that are dangerous
but not to burn the carbon.
The carbon would be in the form of charcoal which is a good soil conditioner and lasts
for 100,000 years or until burned.
New me could visit the charcoal and the plants that benefit from it.

Why would future people want to resurrect you? You also make assumption that personality is purely nature, what of nurture? Why would the clone of you inherit, instead of descendants or the government? Lot of assumptions here.

 

[lisab]

It's commonly accepted that ash is a great fertilizer so you could just spread that around the base of a tree...or even mix it with some potting soil and sort out whichever plant you want right in your kitchen. No need to plant all of grandpa in the backyard to get some apricots out of him

EDIT: Actually, burying isn't "au naturale" at all once you think about it. Which other species of animal buries their dead? I would think that, naturally, your body would've been devoured by wild animals so perhaps the MOST natural way to go is to turn yourself into some form of dog food (since we no longer have easy access to packs of carnivorous wild animals to do the deed for us). Just a thought.

Neanderthals.

 

[SticksandStones]

*sigh*

A thin layer of dust, twigs and leaves and 6 feet of soil is not the same thing now is it?

Burying is burying. That's like saying a bicycle isn't a transportation device because it isn't the same thing as a car.

 

[phyzmatix]

Neanderthals.

Buries. Present tense.

Burying is burying.

Nonsense.

That's like saying a bicycle isn't a transportation device because it isn't the same thing as a car.

No mate, it's like saying: Here we have a car and a bicycle (both transportation devices) but a car is quite obviously not the same thing as a bicycle.

(Great strawman by the way )

 

[EnumaElish]

If I had my pick, I'd want to go as a shooting star. (Gravitational-atmospheric cremation.)