I was thinking while driving home

[OwlHoot]

One reads about militant atheists requesting a non-religious send off when their time comes, but rationally they should request a Christian funeral (or muslim or jewish or whatever the case may be).

After all, being an atheist, and thus presumably not believing in an afterlife, their only concern should be contentment and solace of others. So, assuming many of those will be religious, or at least will think a religious funeral proper, our enlightened dispassionate atheist should logically request one.

P.S. and anyway, you never know, it might all be true

[EternalOptimist]

One reads about militant atheists requesting a non-religious send off when their time comes, but rationally they should request a Christian funeral (or muslim or jewish or whatever the case may be).

After all, being an atheist, and thus presumably not believing in an afterlife, their only concern should be contentment and solace of others. So, assuming many of those will be religious, or at least will think a religious funeral proper, our enlightened dispassionate atheist should logically request one.

P.S. and anyway, you never know, it might all be true

good point.

I always thought that if I believed in God, I would be acheing to die, just so I could meet him. But all these relious types, Popes and mother Theresas etc, cling on like limpets.
when was the last time you saw a pope who looked younger than 100

[HairyArsedBloke]

when was the last time you saw a pope who looked younger than 100

Like this one: Carly Pope?

Note: that one is sfw, a bit of google will find a few that are not

[RichardCranium]

My ideal send-off

My ideal send-off would be burial at sea on a scheduled route.

No fuel used at a cremation.

No land usage.

Feed the crabs.

The only environmental footprint is the fuel to get the carcase to the docks.

So what I'd like is for the likes of the Isle of Wight Ferry and the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company and the Channel ferry people, etc. to offer this as a service. Discretely deliver the body to the dockside in a suitable biodegradable (but leak-proof!) container and they take it on board then chuck it off again a few miles off the coast.

Or if you're posh, slipped quietly off the side of a cruise ship (which happens often enough anyway).

[HairyArsedBloke]

Won't be an issue soon after the general election, where Gordon Brown gets 101% of the vote for him to be dictator for life, as the dead will be turned into soylent green.

Edit:

Having said that. This is how I would like my time to end.

[RichardCranium]

My Dad always says he wants to be bunged on the compost heap.

That I don't understand since he has always been careful to make sure we don't put meat in the scraps for composting.

On querying this with him, he says he won't care as he won't be here.

That's not helpful, is it?

If there was a pig farm near him, I think I'd chuck him in the trough, but the stupid government knee-jerked and banned that after Foot 'n' Mouth.

[minestrone]

My ideal send-off would be burial at sea on a scheduled route.

No fuel used at a cremation.

No land usage.

Feed the crabs.

The only environmental footprint is the fuel to get the carcase to the docks.

So what I'd like is for the likes of the Isle of Wight Ferry and the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company and the Channel ferry people, etc. to offer this as a service. Discretely deliver the body to the dockside in a suitable biodegradable (but leak-proof!) container and they take it on board then chuck it off again a few miles off the coast.

Or if you're posh, slipped quietly off the side of a cruise ship (which happens often enough anyway).

Spare a thought for us yaughty types who will have our sail round the Kyles runined by having to move round balooned corpses before the body sinks. I'm not sure taking the kids down the beach would be quite as nice if you got the occasional arm drifting in to sit beside the tampons, turds and used cock bags that frequent our beaches

[RichardCranium]

the occasional arm drifting in to sit beside the tampons, turds and used cock bags that frequent our beaches

But doesn't that somehow sum up humanity? The essence of our existence?

[RichardCranium]

Plan B

Spare a thought for us yachty types who will have our sail round the Kyles ruined by having to move round ballooned corpses before the body sinks.

I've got it!

Return to the ancient method used by some American Indians and folks of the Indian sub-continent. While they left bodies on mountains to be eaten by eagles, we could do much the same.

Trafalgar Square's 4th plinth!

Bung the bodies up there and let the pigeons strip the bones.

What a tourist attraction.

Waddya reckon?

[xoggoth]

I want to come back as a zombie, that rules out cremation. Failing that I want to be stuffed and put in a corner.