Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Richard Krainium]

Buried in a coffin?

Cremated?

Donate your body to science?

Other?

[i_teach_esl]

let the science students poke and prod all my oraficeses... orifices... orif-ii. then burn the leftover bits and sprinkle the ashes in salt shakers around the world, so that i will always be a world traveler.

[jajdude]

I read before about some culture(s) where the dead body is simply thrown on a fire, no big deal. I don't think the corpse minds too much. People spend a lot on coffins and funeral arrangements, but the fire idea seems good to me. Countries like Korea don't have a lot of spare ground anyway.

[flotsam]

[Woland]

I've got it in my will to be cremated. But if I go in Turkey, I imagine I'll be put in the ground because that's what happens there. If your gonna have a funeral, you gotta have a body (even if nobody sees it). And bodies go in the ground. I once asked a Turkish friend why Ataturk didn't have a glass sarcophagous, like Lenin or Ho or Mao and he said that Ataturk and his followers were wise enough on local Muslim sensibilities to know that that wouldn't go. He's not even in the stone sarcophagous at his mausoleum; he's in the ground beneath it.

It's the same thing in parts of the American south. My father is on his way out right now in rural western Kentucky. My sister, who will be in charge of things when he dies, has agreed to put off his wish to be cremated until after the funeral because her husband, a local boy, has said that people there would find it weird to be at a funeral without a body and just an urn instead.

[gang ah jee]

Sorry to hear about you father, Woland.

Me, I'm happy to be disposed of in whatever way seems most convenient and appropriate to those whose survive me. My only hope is that people have a good time at my funeral and wake.

[Boodleheimer]

i want to be cremated.

and i want my mourners to have an open bar.