Live with cats. They will take care of it.
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Become entirely homeless and cut off all contacts and remove all identification so no one will be around to care when you die.
God that sounds so nice.
Well, in my mind it's freezing to death on a side walk pressed against a wall trying to stay under the one unobstructed over hang.
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I'm sincerely curious, what is done with corpses like that? And who takes care of it?
They just stay in the morgue until there is no room and then cremate you for space.
I wonder why they wouldn't just cremate immediately, which makes me wonder if morgue is waiting for a moment when cremating a non-paying homeless person would be most time-and cost-efficient, horrifying I imagine that they might throw that body in with the next paying customer. You know family members are never allowed to witness a cremation of loved one, even if they're the ones who paid the fee. So hey, morgue might as well throw in a homeless guy, make it a two-for-one deal. Because surely there are costs associated with heating up the crematorium.
When I die just throw me in the trash
That's against the law lol
To praphrase Diogenes and Frank: Just throw me in the trash!
Do a viking funeral. You know, that ceremony where you are sent out in a boat and a fire arrow is fired into the boat so it burns down while floating into the sunset.
But skip the boat. Have someone chuck you into the ocean and shoot arrows at you until you sink.
I want to be launched into the ocean with a catapult
Only heathens and foreigners would want a catapult. True noblemen would demand a trebuchet.
I want it to be with as little dignity as possible, just to ridicule all the pompousness and ceremonial BS
You can keep your fancy trebuchet!
Get eaten by a shark
Science Vs. did a great episode on Human Composting a few years back. It's really touching and highlights a fantastic way to convert your death into life.
Here is a link to the episode. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6reXXkhnvGxpSvnCz8wP2c
“It is every citizen’s final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people.”
Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, “Ethics for Tomorrow”
Have nothing of value left when you die and make sure your relatives refuse ownership of anything. Leave it as a problem for the state to deal with.
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Donate everything still working and the rest goes to a medical school for practice.
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No lie, i want a sky burial. Your body is split open and left on a mountainside populated by vultures, after a few days the villagers return and collect your bones, the only thing left. They grind your bones and mix them into crackers, which are then spread around the fields for birds to eat. Your entire body goes back to the birds, i love it. My wife isn’t taking it seriously but I mean it, i want one of those
There's a book called "Stiff" by Mary Roach where she looks into all the various ways to (legally) dispose of your body.
You can donate it to scientific research (my personal preference) and they will use it as a very accurate crash test dummy (usually).
Things like the glass in car windows and car crumple zones were invented with the help of such donations, and she claims that on average 14 lives are saved by every body donated.
have your homies smoke your ashes in a blunt
Ashes don't burn any further. That is why they are ashes.
so ull be inside ur homies forever
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