I thought about calling this "Describe your funeral:. (Don't ask, just what I was thinking about a fe days ago.)

Tell everybody about what your funeral will be like: Lots of people, just a few family, trading stories or crying about the loss (or celebrating that you are finally gone).

What kind of things do you hope they will say, and do you think they will mean it?

I have already told my family that I think a funeral is to help the survivors get through, but I hope they will consider a wake, rather than a funeral. I hope my family and friends will all gather and tell about the time I shot a lima bean out my nose, or the time I missed the test to be on Jeopardy so I could drive 200 miles to get my daughter. I hope that I do not die in such a way that my passing becomes a public event. Family and friends only is the way to go.

My parents will be there. Probably my extended family. Nick will be there. Probably Jeff and Danielle. Stefanie, if she's not in school. Yeah, that's about it.

I want Boards of Canada played. And I want to be cremated.

Edit: The being cremated part is to be done only after all salvageable organs have been put to better use...

I used to jump out of helicopters in the Navy. When I die, I've asked to be cremated and have my ashes scattered out the door of a Navy helicopter at sea (one last jump).

So who will be there?? 4 people I don't even know (at least two of which may not even be born yet).

I've never thought about this before. I would think that all my family members will be there, plus any additional family members I might have in the future and some friends.

Cremation or burial - I have no preference. Whatever my family decides will be fine by me.

I'm not having a funeral, I'm inmortal.

Oh... so that was you getting hit by a car every 30 seconds?

If I'm in any salvageable state, my organs will go to someone else to give them life. The rest of me can go to science - if my corpse can contribute even the slightest to advances in medicine/medical technology, then I think it's well worth it. I mean, it's not like I'm going to be using it after.

After that... I don't care if I'm cremated. If I'm not, I think it would be cool to spring-load my corpse in the casket so that in the event I have to be exhumed the person who opens it has a skeleton flying out at them "bwaaaaa!!!!"

I want my funeral to be a party. Remember the good things about me and the memories everyone had with me. Death is something that happens to your physical body; the spirit endures.

I agree with you on all that, except the spring-loaded corpse bit - you've been watching the wrong type of movie, I fear.

I have to agree with most of you-all above, the funeral/ceremony is for the benefit of the people who stay behind, not for the participant. And I would also hope that everybody would remember me positively (including some funny episodes, etc.) and not only by the method of my passing and the disposal of my body.

This is your Brain...

This is your brain on PLIME!

Except for the spring thing, this is about how I feel. (I am considering spending ny death HERE.

As for the spring thing, I hadn't thought of prectical jokes from the afterlife. UPVOTES for creativity!!!!

That is seriously cool! I'd always thought about my body going to med students; the thought of it going to forensics never crossed my mind. Either way will advance science, so I don't care where my body goes, I just want it used for something... useful.

I always figured that this might be my contribution to finding those sickest minds before they can hurt another. If they can catch a killer before the next victim, how many people have been saved?

Thanks for reminding me about the Body Farm. And to think I'm a Cornwell fan - pfft! That would be seriously cool. Of course, I would donate any organs I could beforehand. If the Body Farm option doesn't pan out, I refuse to have my family shell out thousands of dollars just so my corpse looks nice and has a pretty coffin. I would rather go sans embalming and in a plain pine box. Also, no religious rituals at all for me. If my family wants to have a mass said for me to make them feel better, fine, but I don't want a priest giving me the last rites or anything like that - I don't want to be a hypocritical corpse.

Nick mentioned the spring thing to me before. He also wants his body used in as many pranks as possible. Like when my kittens died (they had a genetic thing), he wanted to put them in mailboxes. He also wanted to throw their bodies at kids on bikes (Don't worry, I didn't let him do either of those things, although it would be funny, but horrible on so many levels)

I want an open bar. Free drinks for everyone.

I think you only get to go to the Body Farm if you die instate.

I had wanted to donate my body to science until I read that "science" includes your decapitated head being used to train plastic surgeons to do facelifts.

I will probably be remembered by the size of the impact crater I leave on the sidewalk.

How high are you planning to jump from? Is a JATO strapped to your car involved somehow?

I just got back from attending my Mother's funeral.

She lived almost 84 years. She was the mother of 5 children, the grandmother of 5 and the great-grandmother of one. She survived the depression, worked for the government during World War II and her Obituary was reduced to a paragraph about the size of this post.

Don't expect too much from your death. You'll probably be disappointed.

I'll be remembered by the size of the diamond ring my wife buys with the insurance money.

your parents should not be there, hopefully they go llllloooonnnngggg before yoo

I don't really want to think about this

Nick is not invited