Buried or Cremated?
Posted: Thu 02 Aug, 2007 23.58
Until now, I had always thought that when I die, I'd want to be buried. I've never liked the idea of being incinerated and then having my bones crushed up into powder. However, after reading an article about what happens to your body when you're 6 ft under the ground, I've been thinking twice about it.
Apparently, nearly half of all exhumations that occur, report completely waterlogged graves filled with icy-cold, putrefied and stagnant water. The bodies inside the coffin do not fare well. The thought of my body lying in a smelly, cold and flooded grave for several centuries does not endear me to the thought of being buried.
Then I was reminded about the fact that Princess Diana was buried on a small island surrounded by a fairly deep lake. Which would almost guarantee that the late princess's body is currently decaying in a waterlogged grave in rural Northamptonshire.
So it's for those reasons, that I think I would rather be interred in a crypt or chriogenically frozen and possibly be revived in a few centuries from now when the technology to do so becomes available.
A photo of an exhumed body from a waterlogged grave after just 2 years (Not for the easily squeamish)
Anyone got any thoughts on what they want done with them after they die? Yes, it's a fairly morbid subject - but an interesting one nevertheless.
Apparently, nearly half of all exhumations that occur, report completely waterlogged graves filled with icy-cold, putrefied and stagnant water. The bodies inside the coffin do not fare well. The thought of my body lying in a smelly, cold and flooded grave for several centuries does not endear me to the thought of being buried.
Then I was reminded about the fact that Princess Diana was buried on a small island surrounded by a fairly deep lake. Which would almost guarantee that the late princess's body is currently decaying in a waterlogged grave in rural Northamptonshire.
So it's for those reasons, that I think I would rather be interred in a crypt or chriogenically frozen and possibly be revived in a few centuries from now when the technology to do so becomes available.
A photo of an exhumed body from a waterlogged grave after just 2 years (Not for the easily squeamish)
Anyone got any thoughts on what they want done with them after they die? Yes, it's a fairly morbid subject - but an interesting one nevertheless.