What will you do when you snuff it?

After dying, I'm really hoping to become an electronic pulse or a packet of data to wander the Internet forever. That would be pretty cool. Like going to cyberspace instead of going to heaven.

Well, we'll be dead. It's not like we are going to be around to know. I just hope my organs help some DUI victim. I don't care about where my atoms will end up to. We don't have any single atom we had in our bodies seven years ago, after all. It's not such a big deal.

jradetzky wrote:After dying, I'm really hoping to become an electronic pulse or a packet of data to wander the Internet forever. That would be pretty cool. Like going to cyberspace instead of going to heaven.

I'd want to do that as well. I mean I basically live on the internet already.

Don't care what's done with my organs. Whether they're used or wasted. Who cares? I'm dead.

jradetzky wrote:After dying, I'm really hoping to become an electronic pulse or a packet of data to wander the Internet forever. That would be pretty cool. Like going to cyberspace instead of going to heaven.

Actually, I wanted to do a DPhil in Internet studies just to "map the terrain" where I want to spend eternity, as it is the "place" where I spend most of my time. I might still do it after I finish my PhD. About my body, well, I think they should cremate it and scatter the ashes on the Thames.

I think I might donate my body to science. I’ve seen people who did that and it doesn’t look good (kind of dishonouring to be laying there with a cloth on your face) but it’s not like I’ll be aware of that anymore.

After that, I’d like to be incinerated and buried under a tree.

Body-wise, I'd like to be cremated so my family can "feel" my prsence if they wish.

I'd like to become a ghost though if that i possible (which i believe it is) so yeah.

i would hope my organs would go to others - but many of them can't because my heart was so buggered when i was a baby. however, my corneas are ok, so long as the recipient is ok being short sighted

because my dad is a vicar, and people always assume, therefore, that the entire family must be devout, i should think they'll try to give me a christian funeral.

however i shouid think i'd make it explicit that i wouldn't want that. i don't know what i would want tho - cremating maybe. and my ashes could go.... erm.... somewhere.

i dunno, for all i care, they can take my organs then hack me in to tiny pieces and feed me to a horse.

actually, on this topic, i never understand all these stories you see in the news about hospitals taking organs without the consent of the family - and the families getting all upset about how their "babies" are all over the place.

what i don't get is this: what difference does it make? by the baby (or whatever) being divided up science is furthered, but the bit i really don't get is what the hell use is a dead body to a family anyway? they can grieve if they want over a coffin or a corpse that's full of filler. i just don't get it - why do people get sentimental over dead bodies? they're nothing.

When I snuff it, my body will be emptied of everything usable after which it will be cremated and the ashes dumped somewhere in the woods where the atoms of my body will become part of plants and eventually animals and in that way, just like I am a temporary expression of atoms billions of years old, they will move on to something else. No grave, no silly urn, no nest in some mausoleum.

My material belongings will be sold and after the cost of my cremation has been covered, my hefty governmental life insurance and whatever else is left will got to one of two rescues who have agreed to take in my pets and give them a forever home. The 80k or so will cover whatever they need and whatever is left after they pass on of natural causes or are put down on the advice of a vet, they can keep and do as they wish with. In the event that said 2 rescues is no longer in operation, my animals will go to the humane society which will thus become my sole beneficiary.

My pets are all that I care about ... or at least that I feel a duty to provide for.

Ain't nobody getting my organs, I'm taking them with me when I die. I'd rather them be fertilizer in a garden then to go to some ungrateful human being.

Just hoping there's an afterlife. If there is one, this would be my ideal

I'd have a room all to myself, with a library of books. I'd read as many as I'd like, and when new ones came out back on earth they would automatically added to my library. And addition to that there would also be a library of movies and computer games. Also I'd be able to eat any of my favorite foods I wanted to. Especially desserts.

Reading, watching movies and playing games for eternity. That's my ideal afterlife.