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Death of a Chaos Salesman

 
 
Bear
12:36 / 04.03.02
This is something I've thought about more and more recently for various reasons...

Whats going to happen when you die? and I don't mean in the afterlife sense (but you can answer that too might make the thread more interesting)...

I'm thinking more about the funeral etc. I'm guessing most people wont be going for the whole Christian Church deal, so whats your plans, have you ever thought about it? Maybe the big Darth Vader fire deal, how about being stuffed and made into an interesting posistion?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
13:45 / 04.03.02
Well, I'm pretty keen on being dumped in a peat bog m'self, dressed in a pink tutu, a sou'wester, swimming goggles and fishing waders. Let's see those smartarsed future archaeologists work that one out.
 
 
Lothar Tuppan
13:58 / 04.03.02
Viking funeral with plenty of drumming, psychopomping, and wailing. Followed by a kick ass party.

Someone gave me some info on how to legally do a viking funeral. Still looking into how legal it really is though.
 
 
Rev. Wright
15:04 / 04.03.02
It has got to be a long boat or a funeral pyre for me. Never been into the wooden box thing, nor anonymous cremation.
Its not good for the relatives in their letting go.
 
 
mr insensitive
15:13 / 04.03.02
Yeah. Watching the corpse of your loved one get strung up to a big pile of wood and burnt to the skeleton is very cathartic.
 
 
Lionheart
16:07 / 04.03.02
I'm going to invite a lot of necrophiliacs to my funeral where they will have a massive necrophiliac orgy.
 
 
Trijhaos
16:46 / 04.03.02
I want a funeral like at the end of "First Knight". A boat is pushed out into the water with my body on it, and after it gets out far enough, a flaming arrow is shot into it.

Nifty stuff.

If I can't get that, I want to be placed within my home with all my worldy possessions and I want the house burnt down. Hell, if my relatives want, they can call it an accident.

I don't want some maggots feasting on my eyes.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:53 / 04.03.02
I was reading in New Scientist recently about this guy who invented a way of taking really detailed casts of your lungs and circulatory system and stuff. They're actually really pretty. If the bog-body thing doesn't pan out I might go for that instead.
 
 
invisible_al
17:00 / 04.03.02
'Give me a viking funeral' :-)
Well it has its appeal, very visual and all that. Burial under an oak seedling sounds good as well and remeber maggots have to eat to.

Hmmm air burial, how about getting a few crows and other carrion feeders to do things properly. I know the Jainists (?) do this in India, read about some problems they had in breeding vultures in the FT.

But to be honest if I die before I have Children my family will have a depressing small church affair and sod that for a game of soldiers, I'll just have to have kids and get them to bury me proper :-)

As for whether or not I have a soul *phew* gonna have to go off and think about that one.
 
 
—| x |—
19:28 / 04.03.02
Well I'd like to have the big wake deal where all my friends and family can come out to a big piss-up with flowing booze and pounds of pot (on me of course—I hope!). They can all sit 'round and get all loaded up and talk about whatever they'd like: what a good guy I was, what a rat bastard I was, what the score was of the game last night and how that one gal made that super sweet play, and so on. I’d also like it if there was some live entertainment, but not too sure what that would be: a freakshow, a band, some dancers? It'd be cool if a freakshow used my body in their show at my wake though...

After that, I'd like to be able to do what IA suggests above, that is, have my carcass hauled up into a tree, and let the birds and other carrion have at it. Perhaps after my bones are picked clean they could be made into something useful (like a chair or a guitar or something).

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The Monkey
22:30 / 04.03.02
It's the Paris/Farsis who chuck their bodies up in trees. Although they're now ordinances against them doing it, becuase the rest of India isn't very comfy with vultures dropping bits of Uncle Habib over the city. Oh, and the health reasons, too.

The Tibetans also do "sky burial," but the family actually hacks up the body using knives and feeds it to the birds.

I rather like the idea of being shit across a metropolitan area...it has nice symbolism.

But I've already decided to have my skull preserved and hauled out by my friends and relatives for holidays for many generations to come.
 
 
ciarconn
23:24 / 04.03.02
Well, I have always tought about my body being cremated, and then having the ashes dispersed on a park or a garden.

The other part of the question disturbs me a lot more: What happens after death for a chaos magic(k)ian? Has any chaos magick theoric postulated life after death? (I mean, besides Morrison's fifth dimensionals theory, which doesn't fit me)
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
23:28 / 04.03.02
I don't know, but the ceremony will definately include a jazz quartet and open bar. Maybe a buffet of sorts. And dancing! Hate it myself, but everyone looks so happy when they're doing it...
 
 
cusm
00:36 / 05.03.02
Anything but being preserved with chemicals! If you're going to put me in a box, at least make it one the worms can get into.
 
 
Naked Flame
00:36 / 05.03.02
Cremation, and make it snappy. This body is nothing but smoke and light anyway and I don't want it hanging around after I'm gone. And I want a cardboard coffin...

Although I'm quite into the idea of my skull being preserved for theatrical purposes. Or being re-animated as an extra on Buffy, but only if I get to be staked by Willow and/or Tara.
 
 
deja_vroom
00:36 / 05.03.02
My parents would go for the whole catholic thing, even though they know I'm an atheist. But then again, I really can't care less about the matter...
 
  
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