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Title: Turn yourself into a tree!
Post by: Alaric I on February 20, 2013, 01:47:28 PM
The Bios Biodegradable Urn comes with a seed inside.  All your family has to do is plant the urn.  If everything goes right, you will start to grow a tree right from your ashes.  You even get to pick the type of tree you will be.  Seems like a cool idea.

http://www.martinazua.com/eng/eng/bios-urn/ (http://www.martinazua.com/eng/eng/bios-urn/)
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Post by: Shiranu on February 20, 2013, 02:28:43 PM
I am assuming this is if you are cremated? Because the cremation process is very enviromentally damaging, kinda ruins the point.
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Post by: stromboli on February 20, 2013, 03:47:54 PM
My favorite tree is the Ash because you can make shit out of it, like bows and bats. Ash out of ashes. Me likey.
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Post by: Alaric I on February 20, 2013, 03:53:08 PM
Quote from: "Shiranu"I am assuming this is if you are cremated? Because the cremation process is very enviromentally damaging, kinda ruins the point.

It can be, but they found that Pine trees can absorb the gases released by the process.
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Post by: stromboli on February 20, 2013, 03:58:08 PM
I want to be buried with high explosives in the desert so that i may spread myself across some acres and nurture plants. Or else that viking thingy in the Snake River in Idaho.
Title: Re: Turn yourself into a tree!
Post by: widdershins on February 21, 2013, 09:57:27 AM
I have my heart set on a funeral pyre.  Zero funeral expenses.  The family goes and gets me, tosses me on the back of a truck, takes me to the farm, tosses me on the pile, lights the fire and drinks some beer.  It doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever that dying costs so damned much.  No hookers, no blackjack, nothing to justify the expense.
Title: Re: Turn yourself into a tree!
Post by: Alaric I on February 21, 2013, 10:06:02 AM
Quote from: "widdershins"I have my heart set on a funeral pyre.  Zero funeral expenses.  The family goes and gets me, tosses me on the back of a truck, takes me to the farm, tosses me on the pile, lights the fire and drinks some beer.  It doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever that dying costs so damned much.  No hookers, no blackjack, nothing to justify the expense.

I don't think that's legal though.  If they did do it, they could get charged with defacing human remains.
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Post by: Mathias on February 21, 2013, 10:11:35 AM
I will donate my body to science, as the Klingons say, "is an empty shell".
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Post by: WitchSabrina on February 21, 2013, 10:29:18 AM
I'll go with Monkey Puzzle tree
(Araucaria araucana)
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Post by: Mathias on February 21, 2013, 11:29:36 AM
Quote from: "WitchSabrina"I'll go with Monkey Puzzle tree
(Araucaria araucana)


Intriguing, have some relationship with Witch(craft)Sabrina  ??? :)
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Post by: Jmpty on February 21, 2013, 11:32:19 AM
I prefer the sky burial.
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Post by: WitchSabrina on February 21, 2013, 11:35:53 AM
Quote from: "Mathias"
Quote from: "WitchSabrina"I'll go with Monkey Puzzle tree
(Araucaria araucana)


Intriguing, have some relationship with Witch(craft)Sabrina  ??? :)

duh ! :rollin:
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Post by: BlackL1ght on February 21, 2013, 11:38:32 AM
I'll go with a tree. If not that, I don't give a fuck, cause I'll be dead.
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Post by: Wheatthins on February 21, 2013, 01:49:42 PM
Quote from: "Alaric I"I don't think that's legal though.  If they did do it, they could get charged with defacing human remains.
Not here it isn't.  (you have to live in the area though to be eligible to do it)
//http://denver.cbslocal.com/2011/01/31/funeral-pyres-an-option-in-crestone/

I definitely wanna go out with a funeral pyre style cremation.  The idea of being shoved in an oven scares me, :cry:  too claustrophobic for my tastes. (yea yea, i know its stupid to care about that shit because your dead and all.  But what are you gonna do about it?  I'll already be dead :P )

As for the actual deed itself, I'm getting wrapped in a bear skin rug, having a pound of good hash sprinkled all over me and then have my body covered in morning glory and poinsettia flowers.  Use equal parts cherry, pomegranate, pine and cypress wood as kindling, and then throw in my bonsai to boot.  To top it all off, everyone attending must bring a bottle of ever clear, take a swig (Mormon family members in attendance can have my brother substitute for them on that) then dump the rest over me.  Someone then lights up a Cowboy Killer, takes one long drag, then flicks it in and sets the whole thing up.

Then half the ash and use it to go and plant me as a Pinus longaeva on some lonely desert mountain top.  Use the other half of the ash to grow a bonsai of the same and have them put here. (//http://www.sdzsafaripark.org/parkwildlife/bonsai_pavilion.html)
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Post by: Alaric I on February 21, 2013, 02:11:20 PM
Quote from: "Wheatthins"
Quote from: "Alaric I"I don't think that's legal though.  If they did do it, they could get charged with defacing human remains.
Not here it isn't.  (you have to live in the area though to be eligible to do it)
//http://denver.cbslocal.com/2011/01/31/funeral-pyres-an-option-in-crestone/

That's awesome that it's legal!!(The link didn't work so I had to google to see places where it is legal. There are a few.

QuoteI definitely wanna go out with a funeral pyre style cremation.  The idea of being shoved in an oven scares me, :cry:  too claustrophobic for my tastes. (yea yea, i know its stupid to care about that shit because your dead and all.  But what are you gonna do about it?  I'll already be dead :P )

As for the actual deed itself, I'm getting wrapped in a bear skin rug, having a pound of good hash sprinkled all over me and then have my body covered in morning glory and poinsettia flowers.  Use equal parts cherry, pomegranate, pine and cypress wood as kindling, and then throw in my bonsai to boot.  To top it all off, everyone attending must bring a bottle of ever clear, take a swig (Mormon family members in attendance can have my brother substitute for them on that) then dump the rest over me.  Someone then lights up a Cowboy Killer, takes one long drag, then flicks it in and sets the whole thing up.

Then half the ash and use it to go and plant me as a Pinus longaeva on some lonely desert mountain top.  Use the other half of the ash to grow a bonsai of the same and have them put here. (//http://www.sdzsafaripark.org/parkwildlife/bonsai_pavilion.html)

Sweet!, I like the idea of being able to bring back life when I'm gone.
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Post by: stromboli on February 21, 2013, 02:15:24 PM
Dude, gasoline and dynamite. The sendoff. Fuck that eternal monument shit, go to the sky god NOW.
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Post by: Alaric I on February 21, 2013, 02:23:25 PM
Quote from: "stromboli"Dude, gasoline and dynamite. The sendoff. Fuck that eternal monument shit, go to the sky god NOW.

Dynamite's a bit weak for what you want isn't it?  I mean, get that dude from the FBI bomb squad to send you off like Mythbusters sent off that cement truck.
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Post by: Wheatthins on February 21, 2013, 02:42:17 PM
Quote from: "stromboli"Dude, gasoline and dynamite. The sendoff. Fuck that eternal monument shit, go to the sky god NOW.
[youtube:3rdsgx02]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSPEfEnAhio[/youtube:3rdsgx02]
Something along the lines of this then?
Title: Re: Turn yourself into a tree!
Post by: widdershins on February 21, 2013, 02:50:00 PM
Quote from: "Alaric I"
Quote from: "widdershins"I have my heart set on a funeral pyre.  Zero funeral expenses.  The family goes and gets me, tosses me on the back of a truck, takes me to the farm, tosses me on the pile, lights the fire and drinks some beer.  It doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever that dying costs so damned much.  No hookers, no blackjack, nothing to justify the expense.

I don't think that's legal though.  If they did do it, they could get charged with defacing human remains.
I have only looked into it a little bit, but the laws are different in each state and in many places there are surprisingly few laws regarding the disposal of human remains.  I remember reading a story a couple of years ago about people reselling graves.  They would dig up the old corps and dump it in a ditch nearby.  The only thing they could charge them with was, I believe, fraud for reselling the grave because it wasn't against the law to dump a corpse in a ditch.
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Post by: Alaric I on February 21, 2013, 02:53:05 PM
[youtube:206e4fso]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxm_qpKh7Jw[/youtube:206e4fso]

Let's be realistic now!!
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Post by: Fidel_Castronaut on February 21, 2013, 03:17:33 PM
I want a Nordic cremation out at sea, send me out then fire an arrow Into the oil that covers me.

See you all in Valhalla.
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Post by: commonsense822 on February 21, 2013, 03:20:22 PM
Send me to a taxidermist and prop me so I'm flipping the bird with one hand, and holding my dick in the other.  Then stick me out front as a lawn ornament.

Yeah....I think that will do.

I want to continue pissing people off, even in death.
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Post by: Alaric I on February 21, 2013, 03:28:17 PM
Quote from: "commonsense822"Send me to a taxidermist and prop me so I'm flipping the bird with one hand, and holding my dick in the other.  Then stick me out front as a lawn ornament.

Yeah....I think that will do.

I want to continue pissing people off, even in death.

No, I think it'll be bore gruesome if istead of holding your dick, you are grabbing a sheep.
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Post by: Thumpalumpacus on February 21, 2013, 05:52:08 PM
Give my remains to a medical school so that I can at least be useful in death too.
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Post by: Alaric I on February 21, 2013, 06:06:39 PM
Quote from: "Thumpalumpacus"Give my remains to a medical school so that I can at least be useful in death too.

That's what I like about this.  If my wife doesn't do that I can at least nourish a tree.
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Post by: kilodelta on February 21, 2013, 07:37:43 PM
Just put my head on a pike in front of a public library and dump the rest in the ocean.
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Post by: Alaric I on February 21, 2013, 07:40:48 PM
Quote from: "kilodelta"Just put my head on a pike in front of a public library and dump the rest in the ocean.

Trying to bring about Farenheit 451 eh?
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Post by: aitm on February 21, 2013, 09:28:32 PM
You guys need to invent better title. Wouldn't "give yourself a woody" be more enticing?
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Post by: Alaric I on February 21, 2013, 10:18:28 PM
Quote from: "aitm"You guys need to invent better title. Wouldn't "give yourself a woody" be more enticing?
I can easily do that I do believe.