Now , when they raise a toast to you at your funeral, you could actually be in the glass !

That's excellent!

You beat me to it posting this. It is being featured on Newsnight on BBC2 tonight.

When I first read the article it seemed horrible.

If it is more environmentally friendly I suppose it is not too bad.

Seems a bit harsh just to flush your loved one down the drain...

If they can salvage the mercury fillings , couldn't they make one of those snow ornaments...?

I'd go for that option. I like the idea of my body being used to grow stuff (as nature intended).

I'd like to be water. Sounds lovely actually.

Don't care what happens afterwards to me- but would like the process to be as ecological as poss. Using expensive wood from tropical forests, brass and gold handles, silk inners - seems like the ultimate waste of resources to me.
We had a natural burial ground near us in UK, cardboard or cheap untreated pine coffins, + a native tree on top - seemed like a good idea. Sadly I don't think there is any 'ecological' burial in CH.

My bits are going to medical research- at least I might be useful for once, lol.

never swimming again.ever.

Yep, got both UK and CH donor cards- but it seems CH will not want me, just like for blood donation, as I lived in the UK and received blood there.

If my demise happens in the UK- then some of my bits might still be of use.
In CH, medical research is the only option.

Mmmm....Soylent BLUE

Aha! Now we know what Rivella's made from.

Brilliant and disgusting at the same time. But hey...the loved ones don't leave the procedure empty handed: "The end result is a quantity of green-brown tinted liquid (containing amino acids, peptides, sugars and salts) and soft, porous white bone remains (calcium phosphate) easily crushed in the hand (although a cremulator is more commonly used) to form a white-colored dust. The "ash" can then be returned to the next of kin of the deceased."

what happens if the stiff died from something horrible

It seems you can be whatever you want to be... when you're dead

like a diamond http://www.lifegem.com/secondary/whatisLG2006.aspx

or a bullet http://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/29/...to-ammunition/

or maybe for Katy Perry, a firework http://www.angels-flight.net/


There are even options for trees, glass, pencils, hourglasses, and other options I would never have even dreamed of in a million years.

It's gonna take a lifetime to plan my afterlife!!

Seriously? My first failure.......

Can we start the old homeopathy argument again?

If you want to preserve those precious memories of your loved ones, drink a glass of water!

Over my dead body !

Fixed that for you

As opposed to dying from something pleasant?

Isn't there a follow-up joke in there about taking the p*ss.....?
I can't find it.