Would you be willing to recycle your body at death?

[Kilboars]

Steve Rinella mentioned on a podcast of how everything gets recycled in the woods and in nature but as humans we put ourselves in boxes or get cremated and we are put back in natures recycling bin.

Is that odd? Would you be OK with having a heart attack while out hunting at a ripe old age and knowing that your flesh will feed some of these animals that we love so much and not go to waste. I think our families could be traumatized by it but things that make you go Hmmmm.


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[H.A.F.]

Ive thought the Tibetan sky burial are pretty interesting, but yeah just feed me to the coyotes

 

[oldgoat]

Ive thought the Tibetan sky burial are pretty interesting, but yeah just feed me to the coyotes

I could honestly care less what happens to my body if I die to old to be an organ donor! That sky burial is pretty neat, seen that on some documentary one time! I DON'T want to be embalmed and would rather just be cremated since leaving me to decompose in the woods isn't legal! I'd really like for the earth to benefit from my death versus taking up space in a burial plot! Let's face it, there's only so much room left, we're going to have to change our burial practices or we will run out of room.

 

[elkyinzer]

Wow, being eaten by a golden eagle or condor would be a pretty badass way to get rid of me. I'm down.

I agree, Western burial traditions are odd, but then again I'm dead, so what the hell do I care. Those customs are rooted in densely populated cities, where the whole sanitation of it becomes an issue. Hell, some country folks here in the Appalachians still throw you straight in the ground. Furthermore, we as a Judeo-Christian culture seek quick closure in coping with death, so we sure as hell don't want to see human remains scattered around every time we go outside.

 

[LongWayAround]

I don't really care what happens after I'm done with my body.

 

[Beendare]

I don't plan on leaving much....but sure.

 

[jpuckett]

Me and my best friend have a dream of being eaten by the same grizzly bear on the same day when we are like 88.... then of course our offspring hunts down said bear and makes a badass rug out of its hide...


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[5MilesBack]

Several years ago while my wife and I were sitting there with the lawyer making up our wills, I told my wife to just roll me in the gutter and be done with it. Then she replied...."I don't think that's legal". So I said......"Well, then take me up on the mountain and leave me there". We look over at the lawyer and he's looking at us like we're crazy. I was dead serious.

If you've ever seen a person's body even soon after they've died, then you also realized that that person is absolutely no longer inside that body anymore. It is totally different than when they were alive.

 

[airlocksniffer]

Count me in. I'd like to hike into the Bob when it's my time and not come out.

 

[dotman]

Wouldn't bother me at all, I don't get the fuss people create at wanting an elaborate funeral.

 

[Northernpiker]

That would be a great choice for me. I told the wife to scatter me in the woods...she said I was going down the toilet , said I couldn't stop her.

 

[charvey9]

I don't really want to die on the mountain, but if that is my fate it wouldn't really matter to me what happened to my body after I was gone. However, I'm sure my family would like closure and for their sake would hope that there was at least some evidence of my demise. It would certainly be tough on my wife if I vanished without a trace.

As far as planning for the inevitable, I think that is a big part of why people get cremated and have their ashes spread. My father wants his ashes spread in the lake and river system where he grew up and still spends a lot of time. Summing up his words, so the fish and other creatures can feed on his ashes and he will live on for ever.

I feel the same way, and want my ashes spread in a handful of places I love to hunt and/or spent a lot of time growing up. That way I'd be part of the ecosystem where I enjoy spending my time.

I certainly don't want to get put in a box and buried.

 

[jmez]

Once I'm dead I don't care what happens to my body. Everything done after death is for those that are still alive, not the person that died.

 

[Trial153]

Hell yea, toss me in the woods someplace.

 

[406]

Ed Abbey style

Abbey wanted his body transported in the bed of a pickup truck, and wished to be buried as soon as possible. He did not want to be embalmed or placed in a*coffin. Instead, he preferred to be placed inside of an old sleeping bag, and requested that his friends disregard all state laws concerning burial. "I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree." said the message. For his funeral, Abbey stated "No formal speeches desired, though the deceased will not interfere if someone feels the urge. But keep it all simple and brief." He requested gunfire and bagpipe music, a cheerful and raucous wake, "[a]nd a flood of beer and booze! Lots of singing, dancing, talking, hollering, laughing, and lovemaking.

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[Kilboars]

Wow. I cant Believe all the positive responses. I feel much better, I thought I was gonna be called a kook.

I agree that funeral and headstones are more for the living and for the dead friends and family members and they may object but as mentioned above, I would like to just walk out of the woods with my bow and keep walking One Direction and just never come out. Don't have me cremated and sprinkle my now worthless ashes in the mountains, let me literally live in those mountains in the animals that nourish their bodies with mine.


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[BroodBuster]

All I ask is you give the rifle a good home!

 

[Opah]

My only problem with this is giving a bear or cougar the taste for human flesh, think I'll stick to donating my organs to save someones life then have me cremated and furtilize some soil in the mountains.
But I do like the Idea of when my mother in law couldn't chew fat anymore leaving her on the ice for a polarbear OK maybe not

 

[beachbunny]

not a problem at all

 

[Kilboars]

Could be a new industry.

Keep thinking of the movie Fargo.

Fargo - Wood Chipper scene - YouTube


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