Salvete!
Draco wrote:A permanent representant of the human race in space.
Save us from this disaster! Please stop all extraterrestrial voyages until this man has been burnt! I wouldn't like to be thought of by aliens as someone like Draco! Save the human race from this humiliation!
Au contraire, I would suggest that we launch me into space (when I'm dead) so that a genius can represent our species in space!
No, seriously, I really do not know which option I would choose. Indeed, as Romulus says, I would like to donate any useful organ to the medical science (as far as my organs are still useful, as I think at all the alcohol, drugs, fat and nicotine that already have disappeared in it!), to help other people. But burried or cremated?
One the one hand it is nice to have your own little place that still is yours after your death. By which I mean: a grave is something visible and touchable for any predecessors. And especially around this time (november) when the tradition of cleaning and visiting the graveyards still exists.
With cremation there is no longer a visible spot for you on this earth. Some relatives can have problems with that. I do not feel very well about ash being placed in a wall. I always have to think about appartment-buildings when I see these walls with far too many names on.
But cremation is more poetic, more beautiful than a burial. Gone with the wind... That's why I think I would choose for cremation.
Valete!
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