I think the one I was looking at is based out of the University of Tennessee. After they finish using you for forensics, they clean you off and keep the skeleton in their collection for future study usage.

They just fabricate forensic evidence when they need it anyway.

and it's not police running the body farm, it's academics. The knowledge they gain can be used for defense purposes just as easily as for prosecution.

It's actually located on the mountain behind the medical center where I trained. They do some incredible research there and are routinely called upon for their expertise.

So it's a doubly bad idea.

I want to become food to be used by endangered species.

A burial at sea would be fine with me!

It heats the planet.

I'm a Pisces, it only seems right!

(20 years ago now?) i have thought that the idea way to go.

they changed their name, and for the life of me i couldnt remember it. just kept thinking of them as lucky jet.

I think

Insist on no embalming fluid, which might destroy the microbial decomposers that break your body down, and a biodegradable coffin, casket, or shroud; think green. What type of tree?

Dammit!

in the city you will be buried in a concrete vault in the ground, where your body will feed nothing.

back in Oregon maybe with a myrtlewood tree planted on top of me...

...or nourishment for a bristlecone pine.

When Jesus was gathering lambs to his fold,
The tree was already a thousand years old.

When the Pharaohs were gilding their coffins with gold,
The tree as already a thousand years old.

By the way I have lived there ain't no way to tell
When I die if I'm going to heaven or hell.

From what I have learned I confirm for myself
When I die I won't be anywhere else.
So when my time is done it would suit me just fine
To be placed at the foot of a bristlecone pine.

Just put me in a hole in the ground, not in a cemetery in a $3000 box.

I won't care--I'm dead.

(My family chose to cremate her and scatter the ashes)

we were required to get a vault (in addition to the non-biodegradable casket). They even had options for expensive water seals for the vault. I just could not understand it.

I agree with Tyson's sentiments, but the fact remains that our current method of dealing with death makes what he suggests difficult. Every human body is a potential homicide until we know otherwise. Probably best option would be something like a rending machine after predation by scavengers.

I always thought the Zoroastrians had it right (letting raptors consume the body).

Most places if you don't get the body into the ground within a short period of time you are required to embalm. Not a good thing. Cemeteries require vaults so the ground does not sink so I am not sure where you can be buried without doing the crazy stuff we do (embalming, displaying body, non-biodegradable casket, and vault).

who sell supplies to funeral homes are mafia.

It's very expensive to have a burial compared to cremation. And given the strict health and public safety laws governing how bodies must be interred, the chance of my remains actually becoming available as a food source is pretty much nil.

At least with cremation, my remaining bony bits will be appreciated by my favorite rose bushes.

Process the bodies in a sanitary manner and make the best use of the ingredients to make plant food.

I don't think we're ready to turn people into food for animals or humans to eat.

No way that would work; and from start to finish, I gotta think that would really gross out most people.

Well, your friends/family can...

To save my loved ones mucho money...sorry Neil

IF I had an option to be buried in same cardboard box to be feed for those who feed on dead bodies..I would be fine with that.

I like the idea of the body farm..but I am old, will they want me?

I recall my mother chanting "the worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, they crawl all over your nose and mouth"

Neil deGrasse Tyson groks!!!

So for most people, cremation is a more cost effective option. But the green burial movement is growing:

http://www.greenburials.org/

http://greenburialcouncil.org/

http://www.cemeterygroup.org/media/GreenCemeteries.pdf

I need to check on the laws here since I would like to be buried on our farm and do not want to be embalmed. I don't want my grave marked except maybe for a tree planted on it. Or maybe don't even be buried; I told my husband, just wrap a sheet around my body and leave it in the woods - but then he'd probably have problems with the cops.

instead of a traditional one which might be sealed. Here's a company that markets them: http://www.eeternity.com/

I'm not going to have a service - that has been specified already in my final wishes. I see no reason to encase my body in any container. I want the worms and bugs to have easy access.

Right now my instructions are to be cremated because it was simpler but I plan to investigate how to have a green burial on our own property. I can always change those plans if we ever sell the place but if possible, I plan to live out my life here and die here.

i hope for more of these places

So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde, and that's it hangin' on the shed.

All together now...!"

John Prine is good stuff.

Many states require embalming and a concrete vault to inter a body. The reason for this is to prevent the spread of disease in case of flooding or other conditions that can get corpse material into waterways.

You can return the ashes to the earth and they won't be carrying strains of bacteria or other infectious diseases.

natural about that.If you could be buried without embalming that would be different.

that meets all his requirements. I'm guessing other states probably have similar facilities. I have no problem with cremation as long as the ashes are spread-they're great for the garden.

it's just a theory, I don't think we should teach it in schools......................oh, wait--that's another subject..................(never mind!)

it's the only way I can hope to see the future. I want to see what science discovers in the NEXT 500 years of the revolution, considering how much we learned from copernicus to now.

Of course I'm only 34 and have good longevity genes, so by the time I'm old enough (outside of getting hit by a bus or something) hopefully they'll have made improvements to the freezing process.

freeze me, and play the lottery ticket that somehow I get revived later.

The odds are infinitesimal, but that's still better than zero.

Yes, I would be happy with seeing my corpse fed to someone's pets in place of livestock by-products. Compost the scraps, if there are any.

I'm pretty sure that will not sell well at Petco.

Are humans considered free range?

Whatever comes next, (be it nothing or something) I will have no need of my flesh.

A must - see if you want to go natural after death and save your loved ones a pile of cash in the process.

This one isn't it- but is in the same general vein:

http://www.people.com/article/urban-death-project-human-composting

Sounds good to me.

We have land but we also have a creek. We couldn't bury him within several hundred feet of the watershed so it meant we couldn't bury him. I did research and decided to compost him. Next spring it will be 2 ½ years and we'll take apart the compost pile and gather his bones. I'll choose a nice spot in the pasture and we'll lay his bones to rest.

I wouldn't have a problem with doing that for myself if my son could deal. Otherwise I guess as Neil says cremation is out and I'll look for something green...here on the place. If possible. No casket, a small Dixieland parade would be nice but really not necessary. No church. No prayers. Just fond memories, I hope.

Also in time if the sun expands far enough out the earth will become dust yet again and then later on billions upon billions of years later it will become something else.

To cause a nice thunderstorm down the line. Lol