Or to be honest with you I would like to have my ashes ground up and made for fertilizer for a pot plant and have the world smoke me.
I demand to be nuked on the spot where I fell.
Me nearing death, having a long term protest in front of the white house
There is an least 1 place in America that can do a Viking funeral.
Best to find what place can do the disposal you want and get it placed in your will. Make sure you have funds to pay for the services and body transport as well. Look into both local laws where you are living and where you want to be disposed of so you know what no expect and help your executor out now.
Last I checked it’s like one county in Colorado, you have to get pre-approval, and the list is basically always full so you’re 6 months to a year waiting minimum
Sounds like a business plan ripe for expansion.
I mean, if you wanna fight public opinion, decency laws, environmental laws, and find funding to start it. I’ve got $3.50 to pitch in. Good luck
$3.50 per job? I see you, you locke ness monster! You get out of here! I ain’t giving you no $3.50!
Ive heard of projects where your body gets used as nutrients for a tree or plant so that sound plausible
You might want to look into what’s called promession. It’s a way to turn you into fertilizer.
Your question is hard to answer. Because when it comes to how corpses are dealt with, the rules aren’t federal in the US. So you need to look at the states. And the rules for burials, release of the ashes, etc. are possibly set at county level. Likewise in Europe, the rules differ by countries and even within those by whatever subdivisioning applies. I looked it up for Germany, which has some federal rules about how to handle a corpse. But then 16 state laws on what is allowed in terms of final resting places. So far as I can see a Viking burial will not be allowed in places where cremation must happen at a specific temperature, the ashes may not be spread outside cemeteries, or other environmental laws forbid it. So that’s basically nowhere then. Being shot out of a cannon will probably fail at an environmental hurdle or the fact that civilians can’t own active military equipment.
I choose:
The Moriori people of the Chatham Islands … strapped [their dead] to young trees in the forest. In time, the tree grew into and through the bones, making them one.
Don’t know about the rest of Europe, but in Germany you cannot just choose freely what happens to your remains.
They must be handled by an undertaker and there are laws about how and where remains can be buried.
I think there are discussions to loosen some of those restrictions to maybe allow for remains to get worked into trinkets or jewelery and stuff, but I don’t really know how far along those discussions are.It is basically unheard of to have the ashes of a loved one in an urn at home, like you see in movies.
There actually are even laws for the remains of pets, but I think they are not really enforced and most pet owners that I know don’t care and bury their pets somewhere private.
We surely didn’t give away the remains of our family dog.
She sleeps in the shade of a nice big bush now.I’m in Germany and my cousin has his dad’s ashes at home and refuses to have them buried. We’ve given up trying to persuade him.
It is basically unheard of to have the ashes of a loved one in an urn at home, like you see in movies.
You don’t hear about it because it’s illegal, but I think it’s much more common than people think.
Id love to be tossed into an active volcano when I die. Or have weights attached to my legs and dropped over the challenger deep
Maybe but probably not. There are usually fairly comprehensive regulations about what you’re allowed to do with human remains.
Local environmental regulations where I live make it illegal to set fire to a wood boat too because they are treated with chemicals that makes them water proof and rot resistant.
I know because I’ve considered a viking style funeral too, but in the end I’m dead and won’t care. so why go thorough the legal trouble when I’m alive?
Story idea: a criminal organization focused on giving people the funerals/burials they want, regardless of legality.
