Ask a mortician

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Would you rather be cremated or buried and why?
  • RachelElser
    RachelElser Posts: 1,049 Member
    so, when a body is cremated- does it all go to ash? Or are there, like, bone chunks? And what do you do with the chunks if there are any?
    My Aunt died last year, and was cremated and my Uncle had her put in a Crystal Skull Vodka bottle- actually makes sense to me, it's a skull! Anyways, there were no chunky bits that I saw. So, what the oddest thing you've been asked to put ashes in?
    Also, what do you do with ashes that no one claims? Like, if the city pays to have a homeless person cremated?
  • hali1
    hali1 Posts: 54 Member
    What kind of schooling/training did you need for your job? Are there entry level jobs in that line of work?
  • kaylajane11
    kaylajane11 Posts: 313 Member
    This is fascinating.
  • futureicon
    futureicon Posts: 348 Member
    Are the ashes from each cremation kept separate? If so, how?

    This is a good question.. like when you cremate someone, are their special measures taken to ensure that their ashes don't mix with the last guy in the oven? If I have a loved one cremated and I receive their ashes, is it definitely 100% uncle Bob, or is it mostly Uncle Bob, with a bit of 100's of other folks mixed in?
  • PandoraGreen721
    PandoraGreen721 Posts: 450 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    Would you rather be cremated or buried and why?

    I'm curious this as well..I've never liked the idea of being cremated..but that's just me.
  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,724 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    Would you rather be cremated or buried and why?

    I'm curious this as well..I've never liked the idea of being cremated..but that's just me.

    But... but worm food

    Speaking of, is that really a thing? I mean, between the tightly closed casket and embalming fluids?
  • PandoraGreen721
    PandoraGreen721 Posts: 450 Member
    Never thought of the possibilities of where my ashes could be scattered...but that sounds appealing.
  • PowerMan40
    PowerMan40 Posts: 766 Member
    edited December 2016
    Do dead men when they go stiff, also get a permanent hard on? I would love to die with a hard on one day. lol Is that why they only show half the body at the viewings?
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    Never thought of the possibilities of where my ashes could be scattered...but that sounds appealing.

    Actually, sprinkle me around Lake Tahoe or on Manhattan Beach.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    One possibility is to be cremated and your ashes used to grow a tree.
  • yayamom3
    yayamom3 Posts: 939 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    One possibility is to be cremated and your ashes used to grow a tree.

    that's what i want. i want to be a tree when i grow dead.

    before they had that my plan was to have my friends steal my body and bury me somewhere shallow and foresty without a coffin, so the bugs and worms and rot and animals could get to me. natural decay and all that.

    I was just telling my husband about green burials last night. They are becoming more and more popular. It's something I'm considering in the back of my mind. Hopefully, I have a good long while to toss the thought around.
  • Have you ever had a corpse move? And do you have to do something to the eyes to keep them closed?
  • kschwab0203
    kschwab0203 Posts: 610 Member
    This thread is awesome!
  • jessiferrrb
    jessiferrrb Posts: 1,758 Member
    yayamom3 wrote: »
    cee134 wrote: »
    One possibility is to be cremated and your ashes used to grow a tree.

    that's what i want. i want to be a tree when i grow dead.

    before they had that my plan was to have my friends steal my body and bury me somewhere shallow and foresty without a coffin, so the bugs and worms and rot and animals could get to me. natural decay and all that.

    I was just telling my husband about green burials last night. They are becoming more and more popular. It's something I'm considering in the back of my mind. Hopefully, I have a good long while to toss the thought around.

    ooh! good to know, they're illegal a lot of places, which is why it's good to have degenerate friends who don't mind a bit of corpse-napping.
  • _dixiana_
    _dixiana_ Posts: 3,262 Member
    futureicon wrote: »
    I want to be added to powdered creamer containers.. Just a pinch in each jar. Ha

    I don't know why this made me giggle...But it totally did.
  • MsAmandaNJ
    MsAmandaNJ Posts: 1,248 Member
    yayamom3 wrote: »
    cee134 wrote: »
    One possibility is to be cremated and your ashes used to grow a tree.

    that's what i want. i want to be a tree when i grow dead.

    before they had that my plan was to have my friends steal my body and bury me somewhere shallow and foresty without a coffin, so the bugs and worms and rot and animals could get to me. natural decay and all that.

    I was just telling my husband about green burials last night. They are becoming more and more popular. It's something I'm considering in the back of my mind. Hopefully, I have a good long while to toss the thought around.

    This was something my husband told me about a few years ago, I told him to do his research, set it up and put it in writing...don't leave that stuff up to me. My own plan is to donate whatever organs can be used and my corpse can go to science.
  • Tr4pQueen
    Tr4pQueen Posts: 127 Member
    How is the person above me going to die?
  • _dixiana_
    _dixiana_ Posts: 3,262 Member
    futureicon wrote: »
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    Wait.. you're serious?
    Tr4pQueen wrote: »
    How is the person above me going to die?

    Let's not answer that, mmmkay.