Die for FREE! Local man discovers the Secret to ZERO End-of-Life Expenses!

There are other options for the body (and soul) you know.

You're missing the point.

Funeral and burial costs aren't free, easily totaling mid 4 figures to low 5 figures. Somebody has to pay for that.

Talk with your local funeral director, or with the medical school directly.

Legally, the answer is likely no, but you could always make informal arrangements with a trusted friend or family member.

Hey everyone, meet my dad (aka "dad in a box"). Wave at your monitor and say Hi Mr. Carpenter! He was a very jolly social guy.



So he got the cremation thing done, and he's been dressed up in this fancy cylinder box and he's just waiting for mom before we scatter them somewhere. He's always had to wait for mom for something, so we thought it appropriate and that he probably wouldn't mind waiting one last time for her. Story of his life and all...

Dad's original box that had been paid for was a simple plain white cardboard box. This box was picked out by one of the family members so we could have him at his service after - but we wound up not bringing him there. It was something like $60 or $80 more for his upgraded digs.

I can actually get the same quality boxes at the dollar store. Different decoration on them, but should someone feel the need to keep my ashes around for some reason, I want to encourage them to supply a nice dollar store box to the cremation place.

My parents paid in advance - so everything is all set for mom now too, but I want to say even this was a few thousand to arrange for the package deal they got.

There is a service where you can send ashes in and have them made into diamonds. My sister and I thought about wearing dad on our finger. And we could send just some of the ashes in and there would still be plenty left over. Talk about the family jewels.

Some ashes were requested to just be added to some at a cemetery plot. Turns out you can't just show up at the cemetery and start spreading ashes all over the place. We're going to have to pull a Shawshank Redemption (look at 1:26).


Plans after are still in the air, but considering a fishing excursion with some ash chum.

Maybe just hundreds. But there are still other costs. Death certificates that need to be made into multiples and stuff for submission to collecting other things.

Dying is not free. But I whole heartedly agree, cremation is definitely the most bang for your buck.

In all fairness, deer likely aren't interested in this, either.

Hopefully I'm gone when I'm gone.

What am I gonna do with this lump of decaying flesh? I obviously won't be carrying it around with me. I have no need for it.

Think too about people who are lost at sea. They likely just become part of the food chain.

I understand the traditions of open caskets - but I think this is a very out dated tradition. Just as easy to take a nice photo of someone and display that at a nice service.

Why take up good real estate for it's residents that can't even enjoy it?

It borders on a topic which is forbidden to discuss here.

But hey, if someone couldn't be bothered with visiting me while I'm still here, then I don't want them bothering to do that when I'm gone. I'm planning to be much further away.

In a strange way it all interlinks with IM too.

We get digital products that we can't actually hold in our hands - unless we print them up or something.

When you first sell something online (like an affiliate product) it can seem weird that you can turn that into money - even though you never held something in your hand or actually had the product.

It all comes out of your head. The information and what you do with it. It's all just kinda floating around out in the universe.

People get too attached to the physical. It's ok while you're able to actually interact with it, but there is no way to use your body to interact with things once you go elsewhere. It simply becomes as useful as an old couch you put on the curb.

If someone can get another year or so out of the old couch - great! I've got no use for it.

(my couch is definitely needing some refurb already these days. lol)

My mom saved my baby teeth that came out and were left for the tooth fairy. Funny to come across those now but what am I gonna do with those? Certainly can't stick them back in my mouth. I'll tell you what I'm going to do. Take a nice photo and toss em. Unless someone tells me they could use them for an art project or something.

Of course, later when the tree is old it can be cut down and made into some nice furniture for your relatives.

"Careful on that couch. Don't spill that red wine on Mom!"

"Mom invites you to have a sit down with her"

Turn cousin bob into a coffee table.

Me? You can make me into a nice bar for the family room - and hopefully lots will be spilled all over me.

OK, lol, had a minute to think about this.

I have to reverse the situation.

If I was smoking someone else up I'd want to know who it was I was smoking exactly.

I might get kinda wigged out just thinking about it after a few puffs. Are they a positive energy to be smoking?

And who is going to want to smoke me? I'd want to decide who gets to smoke me.

Problem with this is you don't know how you are going to die or from what - and in the end your organs might be of no use to anyone.

Now, if you follow what I just thought about, you might be able to get away with making some kind of deal on that - provided you could sell someone on the idea that you will make the most enjoyable smoke anyone has ever encountered.

You get people to invest in wanting to smoke the "Zodiax" - because it will be a limited supply.

It's all about pushing the supply and demand of the final product as to how much money you could rack up.