as an atheist I intend to have my body butchered and torn apart for organs and science.
What is done after that is of no consequence to me...
Though I don't know if that addresses your questions, and my family isn't atheist, so obviously they will have a real funeral service.
I guess my answer would be "whatever the dead person wants done with their body". If they didn't say, I'd probably send them to be butchered for organs and science.
I mean, just because people don't believe in God or an afterlife doesn't mean that there isn't a strong emotional response or that, pragmatically, something needs to be done with the body.
I don't really know. Thinking about it now, the only real things I can say for sure about my own death are how I don't want it to take place. I'd be offended (i guess i wouldn't be, I'd be dead) were I buried on church grounds in a formal ceremony.
The only reason I'm opposed to this is because I used to be scared that when I cut the Thanksgiving turkey, that the turkey would still feel it while he was dead.
I was a weird kid...
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Cremation. Over here, Christians object to the practice. It is assumed that if a body has been destroyed by fire, it is impossible for it to be resurrected later and reunited to the soul and spirit.
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I'll co-sign this. It's not so much a religious thing as it is a cultural one.
Personally, I'm of the mind that funerals are for the closure of the living, not the deceased. I'll probably have a few options, but let my family (provided I have one) decide what to do...I'd rather do what's most comfortable for them. So it won't be something I don't want, but it also won't be principally about me but about those closest to me.
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Well when I first saw this I thought it was going to be a bash thread which reminded me of the dumb religious quote about atheist and their funerals but an interesting question. As for me I have told my wife that I want to be cremated and then have my ashes ground up and mixed into paint and have my portrait painted. She thinks its weird and it maybe but since she is religious she said that she is going to bury me anyway and she doesn’t want the responsibility of keeping the painting. If it gets damaged or she losses it but she can always come to my grave.
I want to have a memorial when I die, but I want my body to be absent. I want my body to have already been cremated, and then I want my family and friends to have a big after party with BBQ and beer and games. I don't want everyone to mope around and cry when I die.
I could care less what happens with my ashes. Maybe mix a sprinkle into a shot glass and let everyone drink my ashes with a shot of their favorite liquor.
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Apr 24th, 2008 05:32 PM
. Perhaps I should start calling people also 
jk
Could be an urban legend 
