[RedStateRocker]

I very much want to be buried without a casket under some grapes or marijuana or something that everyone can consume me the next year (anyone not wanting to will be left out of the will).

Waste not, want not. Nothing more stupid than pumping a body full of embalming fluid, entombing it in a piece of finished wood and then burying it; some traditions are just insane.

[Jim from C-Town]

There is a reason why we embalm and why we encase in a casket and vault. Embalming preserves the body for the services. We often wait days, in some instances weeks, u\before we bury a body. A couple days of an unembalmed body and no one would ever forget that service.

In many areas, even six feet under, we will have shifting and movement of the ground. couple that with a large rain event and we have freshly buried remains shifting in the soil, even becoming exposed. In most areas even those buried in simple cardboard or shrouds require concrete vaults to keep the body in place.

Cremation becomes more and more appealing to those without a religious tradition.

[WorkingClassFilth]

I favor planting an apple tree over me. I like to imagine future generations enjoying my legacy . . .

[PapaBear3625]

Waste not, want not. Nothing more stupid than pumping a body full of embalming fluid, entombing it in a piece of finished wood and then burying it; some traditions are just insane.

It's also a very recent tradition. It used to be that the body was buried without a box, or in a plain wood box (which would decompose along with the body once in the ground)

[golux]

I’d like to be sunk in a cloth bag at sea over the Marianas trench.