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Dead... And Not So Dead => Death in action => Topic started by: prezhorusin04 on February 15, 2008, 12:28:50 AM

Title: Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal with the Dead
Post by: prezhorusin04 on February 15, 2008, 12:28:50 AM
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Title: Re: Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal with the Dead
Post by: Kadesh on March 06, 2008, 11:25:45 AM
 That's very interesting, but I don't get a couple of them. The one with the vultures.... you can't get a body off the Earth permanently. The bird eats you, digests you, and poops you out. There's no way to stay in the sky forever. Unless you could possibly turn yourself into air...
 Secondly, to 'bury' the dead by wrapping them in shrouds and leaving them in trees. Eventually, the shroud and the body would decompose to a point that bits and pieces would fall. Maybe even a whole head. Who, besides a twisted few on this site, would want a loved one to be walking along and have a badly decomposed head fall on them? I can't see my Grandmother being thrilled with that.
 
Title: Re: Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal with the Dead
Post by: 2gunsdrawn on March 06, 2008, 12:36:13 PM
That's very interesting, but I don't get a couple of them. The one with the vultures.... you can't get a body off the Earth permanently. The bird eats you, digests you, and poops you out. There's no way to stay in the sky forever. Unless you could possibly turn yourself into air...
 Secondly, to 'bury' the dead by wrapping them in shrouds and leaving them in trees. Eventually, the shroud and the body would decompose to a point that bits and pieces would fall. Maybe even a whole head. Who, besides a twisted few on this site, would want a loved one to be walking along and have a badly decomposed head fall on them? I can't see my Grandmother being thrilled with that.
About the vultures- I think it's mostly just symbolism. People back then probably didn't take the excretory system into account.
and about the bodies in trees- I'm no expert, but i bet they would leave the bodies a specific patch of trees, and then stay away from them. Like a graveyard- dump the bodies there and don't come back.
Title: Re: Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal with the Dead
Post by: Kadesh on March 06, 2008, 02:32:59 PM
 I realize that, but I'm sure there was someone like me that thought it was a tad silly. And I don't really mean anything about the parts falling on people. I just wanted to illustrate that the bodies wouldn't stay there. I personally have no desire to be burried or respected after death. I have my own plans......
Title: Re: Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal with the Dead
Post by: MetalDragoness on March 15, 2008, 01:53:51 PM
Those were all very interesting. I can def see your point on bodies falling out of the trees. I am not sure I would want that. In fact I would probably piss my pants if something like that happened.

However I am not a fan of burial the way we have been doing it for ages, Put a person in a box so that when they do decompose they do it in the most expensive place possible. I also think of the body as a vessel for the soul and that a soul cannot be contained in a box.

No cremation or burial for me I have other plans as well.

And I really want to go to the "Body Worlds" show if it comes to my town, that is both macabre and educational.

Has anyone heard the story of the Chinese prisoners related to the German  scientists show?
Title: Re: Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal with the Dead
Post by: dragonlord on March 16, 2008, 01:43:29 PM
One of two opions for me
1./cremation and ashes sprinkled into the holy ganga
2./Take a rocket powered monkey driven spaceship straight into the sun

"YEAAAAH BAABBBY"  8-)
Title: Re: Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal with the Dead
Post by: Kadesh on March 20, 2008, 04:31:12 AM
 For some reason I stopped reading at rocket powered monkey... and that image made me laugh so hard I nearly fell off my chair.  Sorry... sometimes my mind works slowly. LOL.
Title: Re: Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal with the Dead
Post by: dragonlord on March 20, 2008, 11:06:34 AM
No need to apologize im always ready to make a sexy lady such as yourself smile
Title: Re: Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal with the Dead
Post by: Sick_Angel13 on June 14, 2008, 10:07:57 AM
Cremation is the most proper way to reduce a corpse, instead of hanging them over the trees to rot.

I wouldn't care, it's not like I'll be worried about being uncomfortable after dying. A body means nothing after death, the soul will leave no matter what happens to the corpse. 8-) 
Title: Re: Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal with the Dead
Post by: Kadesh on June 14, 2008, 10:18:01 AM
 Well thank you, dragonlord. Personally, I intend to donate my remains to the Body Farm. Study away, youngsters.
Title: Re: Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal with the Dead
Post by: thneedly on August 24, 2008, 12:53:05 PM
I my body to be taken to Africa and fed to a pack of hyenas.
That would be AWESOME.

My corruption would infect them and they would become my terribly hideous, incessantly-laughing undead minions!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

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Title: Re: Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal with the Dead
Post by: Kadesh on August 24, 2008, 03:08:24 PM
 Who are you going to get to transport your remains and see your wish carried out?? Gotta be careful.. there are people out there that would just boil your flesh off your bones and Keep your skeleton on display in their house. ... You know... People like me. :-D
Title: Re: Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal with the Dead
Post by: thneedly on August 30, 2008, 06:34:55 AM
Who are you going to get to transport your remains and see your wish carried out?? Gotta be careful.. there are people out there that would just boil your flesh off your bones and Keep your skeleton on display in their house. ... You know... People like me. :-D

My true love has promised she will bring my necrotic flesh to the sunblasted plains of the Dark Continent so that the demons of the desert may feast upon my flesh and my spirit may be bound to that savage land.

if you ever abducted my dead body, Kadesh, I sincerely hope you respect and love me enough to eat the flesh before you put my bones on display.
Title: Re: Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal with the Dead
Post by: Kadesh on August 30, 2008, 09:58:04 AM
 As long as it's not dark meat...  :roll: I'll have to get someone else to eat that part... :wink:
Title: Re: Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal with the Dead
Post by: GrimReaper777 on December 23, 2009, 11:40:23 PM
I realize that, but I'm sure there was someone like me that thought it was a tad silly. And I don't really mean anything about the parts falling on people. I just wanted to illustrate that the bodies wouldn't stay there. I personally have no desire to be burried or respected after death. I have my own plans......


I know, right? I mean, when you're dead, you're dead.
Title: Re: Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal with the Dead
Post by: WOLFSONG on December 24, 2009, 07:52:25 AM
I say cremation. At least I can be used as fertalizer. I would hate a casket and gravesite. Just gives my family a reason to boo hoo every year and forget to bring me flowers. :lol:
Title: Re: Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal with the Dead
Post by: GrimReaper777 on December 24, 2009, 09:37:12 AM
I say cremation. At least I can be used as fertalizer. I would hate a casket and gravesite. Just gives my family a reason to boo hoo every year and forget to bring me flowers. :lol:

I would donate my body parts for scientific research, but if that wasn't an option, I'd definately go with cremation. :)
Title: Re: Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal with the Dead
Post by: Kadesh on January 06, 2010, 11:42:01 AM
 If for some reason, the Body Farm will not take my remains, I want a plain pine box in the middle of a woods somewhere. Buried 12 feet.