How much are you worth after death?

How much $ would you spend on your burial? Stepson's mom had $20,000, included box, crypt, her pastor, luncheon for the mourners and an honor guard.

Husband and I are ash-to-trash. He is retired military, could have the honor guard too. But we are not ostentatious, we are pragmatic, and if everybody who died got a cemetery plot we would run out of land… and those mouldering bones will not re-animate (makes me think of Tales from the Crypt), religious ideas are weird to us.

So how much $ would you spend?

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ViciDraco · 36-40, M

Donate me to science. Throw me out in the woods to be eaten by scavengers. Let my body do some good whether it is advancing research, feeding hungry animals, or just fertilizing the earth for new growth. Sadly just being dragged out and dropped in the wild is illegal in most places.

Anything else people want to do is on them. Mourn how you need to. But if you are spending money, realize you are doing it for the people still alive and not for me. I'm gone. I won't care anymore. Use what I leave you to get ahead on debts or do something enjoyable.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@ViciDraco i have actually considered donating my body to a medical school to use as a cadaver.