Plan B?

[vetran]

I just looked that up. So basically it's the Acid Bath Murderer, except they hand your powdered bones back to your relatives and pour the rest of you down the bog.

I thought it was pretty neat.

[amcdonald]

I've told my wife that if I go first then I want her to call a taxidermist, have me stuffed and sat on the sofa.

Her response was something to the effect of sometimes she thinks it's already been done.

So you've visited the Rothschild museum in Tring then

A local museum for local people

[kingcook]

Impose a burial tax of £50K a pop, to encourage more people to opt for cremation, preceded by new ecologically sound disposal techniques like freeze drying.

It's outrageous that so much land is cluttered up by a load of mouldy old skeletons, for nothing more than sentimental reasons. I'd plough up the whole lot and grind them up for fertiliser.

Basic human right and moral principle is that dead bodies should be respected.

What about the respect for future ones that won't have any space to be buried in?

[vetran]

What about the respect for future ones that won't have any space to be buried in?

To be honest when space gets short the bodies just get dug up anyway.

BBC News - Digging up the dead

I would prefer to be turned to dust and sprinkled (I pay NLDYUK extra for that).