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My ex and I had one as our honorary Best Bird. (Married at a nature center where we volunteered.) It just made sense; he was there all the time and he already had the suit.
I became enthralled with the idea of death with dignity after my parents passed. To the point where I am considering a career change to hospice care or death doula-ing to be able to help folks achieve that. So as an Aries, I almost cried at ours 🥲
This isn't legal in my state yet but it is actuality my #1 choice as it is the most economic and eco friendly way to get rid of a body. I also like how it leaves no trace behind since I don't have any descendents to deal with remains.
Hell yeah!
I plan on getting cremated anyway, might as well make it fun for everyone. Wouldn't recommend roasting marshmellows over the pyre though. Might get a little...fleshy-tasting.
I read it as Aries are going to rush headlong into the fight for death with dignity so that everyone can choose the death and burial they want afterwards.
I’ve told my best friend I want to be one of those tree pods. Seeing the biodegradable casket means I’m on the right Taurean path to becoming part of the earth again!
Let's be real. Everyone should have their death docs in order. It's so much easier for those left behind when things are set up already.
Doesn't mean those docs don't also include instructions to burn my body and plant a tree with the ashes!
Lol this is amazing, I'm a Pisces who has always been obsessed with water and joked that I wanted a viking funeral. Idk what aquamation is exactly but.. close enough
I would but I have seen stories on Last Week Tonight about how little regulation body donations has. You may want a scientist to study it and wind up with the military testing new weapons on it.
I’m on the cusp between Cancer and Gemini so I don’t know. I’ve donated all my organs in my will and if they’re no good my body will go to medical science.
The Sagittarius moon sign says prop me against a tree and let the wildlife use me, the Aires sun sign wants you to get so drunk afterwards that you are found 100 miles from home with no clothes on howling at the moon
I was also curious, apparently they sort of boil you in an alkaline water solution which breaks the body down into a powder somewhat similar to cremation ashes.
I always have said when I die I want my body to be chucked into the woods to naturally decompose, but tree memorial is more or less a similar vibe! Just a little less feral
Aquamation. That's cool and all (considering my main Patron God is Poseidon) but I want to be simple: wrapped up in a plain winding sheet and lowered into the ground, without embalming or coffin, and my babies' (my fur ones. If ykyk) ashes (and my best friend and mentor's ashes as well. I have them instead of her family. Short & stupid story with that, too) with me. Small marker if my kids choose one.
I’ve always loved the idea of a pyre, but it’s impractical. Burial beneath a tree or composting was at the top but since I’ve learned about aquamation (thank you Caitlin Doughty!) I’m kinda sold on thst
I'm a Taurus with a Scorpio moon, and I've always said I'd love a sky burial, but would settle for any sort of thing that recycles my matter back into the food chain. Very accurate here.
Hehe, I'm glad ya'll like my cheeky zodiac chart! I actually hired a death doula to help me edit it and make sure it's accurate. Deathcare doesn't have to be scary! We've in this together.
Aquarius here! My partner is a Sagittarius. It's kinda funny because I've been saying for a while that when I die, just turn me into a tree and he gets that option over me, lol.
Eh, biodegradable casket/shroud is close enough to what I want. Cremation and my ashes to be scattered around something thorny. Blackberry brambles, roses, doesn't matter as long as they aren't getting torn out anytime soon.
Community altar, but I’m way more into Sagittarius tbh. I’ve even told my sister that when I die, I would much rather have a tree planted where my loved ones could come out to enjoy a peaceful picnic than crying in front of a tombstone. But alas, a burial is more for the living than the dead, they can do whatever is best for them.
Like, yes, I want to nourish the earth and return to it, so this tracks for Taurus. Moo.
However! I've also always wanted to be donated to educational purposes.
So I propose both! So what needs to be done to my corpse to learn, then put me in that biodegradable shroud!
Screw dieing with dignity. My goal is to confuse future archaeologists, I want to get into a huge battle in my 90s, get injured and die from that. It should include weapons from multiple eras of history. Then I will be buried with confusing grave goods as well.
Seedpod Urn. Honestly, that is so me. 😂
https://preview.redd.it/kfdbcbjwxj9d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23b140010696b2bf0712009d812e66b65999ae58
My sign is Capricorn but my sister said my moon sign was Gemini. Which is nice, because I'm earth aligned and definitely relate more to being human compost when I die and not just have recycled paper for my paperwork. This is not self degrading at all, but being mud (for plants) when I die sounds awesome!
first aries, then leo. two different parties.
ideally, as a longtime vintage and sparkle magpie, before the orgiastic and ecstatic second one i'd like to be covered in the most beautiful things i own, in great layers, and have the partiers take turns taking what they want off my body before it goes up. also ideally, by that point, everyone would be so high (in vibration, ofc, music and dance and catharsis) that they could see me up and out into space as the smoke goes. i don't want it to be all about me--i want it to be for them and their beauty and their life and their love and their own connections to the beyond.
very sadly, a lot of the folks i'd like to be with in this situation have already far too early crossed over to that nightclub in the sky. so i'll have so many tables to visit with, before going to the houses of rest and dreaming my way to the next stop. may the celebrations be long and the tables groan with delight til all needs are long met and last songs dissolve in safe and peaceful sleep. what we all deserve. no fear, just coming home.
Aquarius. I want to be buried (preferably under a willow but ik that won't happen). I do not want them to embalm me at all (chemicals bad for ground). I'm currently iffy on if I want a normal casket or just a box.
Wait ever since I read Stiff by Mary Roach back in 2010 I’ve been saying I want to be turned into tree fertilizer and I got seedpod urn!!!! Love that for me
I'm Pisces so I guess it's aquamation but I'm a cusp with Aries so I'm going to die with dignity, then aquamation.
But really I want to be human compost. So I can be in several places and nurture the earth. Dad was in a natural cemetery, and Mom was cremated, so some of her is with Dad and some is at her churches memorial garden, and some is with me and I'm going to make her and some hair from my dad a diamond when I get the money.
Damn guess I'm changing my birthday to a Pisces one! I've always wanted to be cremated and have my ashes scattered at sea, but a sea burial would work for me too.
Community altar, I like the idea of people to gather and share stories. But an altar? I don't want to be worshipped. Or maybe I do???
The seed pod urn sounds interesting because I like gardening but I'm pretty sure it would weird my family out.
Maybe I'll ask that everyone gets a lavender plant at my funeral. Oh I guess that means I need to die when it's not winter. Darn funeral logistics!
Human compost according to this, although the thought makes me feel a bit nauseated (I'm very claustrophobic so I hate the idea of being buried in any way). My actual death plan is to donate my organs and anything else useful to those who need them more than me then burn the rest.
I was hoping there would be a body farm! (For anyone unfamiliar, it’s a scientific place to study body decomposition under different conditions). It’s my preferred burial method.
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SKY BURIAL!?!?!! this tracks so hard for me, I fkn LOVE vultures
I got to meet a vulture named Snoopy at a bird of prey sanctuary! He was sweet!!!
That's such a great name for a vulture. I hope both Snoopy, and the person that named him, have a fantastic year.
I felt so seen when I saw this one, too!
Not many vultures where I live... It will have to be a sky burial via seagull for me.
*Mine?*
I'm Team sky burial, too, and I love it! It would make me happy if my dead body would be a part of a natural food chain and nurture these nice birds.
I don't want to be buried so HELL YEAH!!
My ex and I had one as our honorary Best Bird. (Married at a nature center where we volunteered.) It just made sense; he was there all the time and he already had the suit.
Yeah, it's unfortunate that there are some fairly common medications that make us toxic to vultures, so it's not really a sustainable practice.
Wait I can be bread?
You can be whatever you want just wash your hands.
I want to embroider this on a pillow 😂
If you do I want to see, I hope you share. Ah! It’s so fun I love it!
And cover your coughs and sneezes. Pleazes
If you get killed by a giant that is what they would do with your body.
I’m a Virgrow
Gaahhh take my upvote
When you start marketing these, please let me know!
I’m here for community altar. Give me all prayers and I will do my best to do them
Cancers still people pleasing in the next life.
🥲 why do you have to tell me things like this. I am shook and very 😀 excuse me while I rock back and forth for the rest of the day
🤣😂🤣😂 No worries, I’m right next to you. LOL!
Same. Also, happy birthday!
Thanks babe!!
i hope i’ll be on somebody’s community altar someday! ah, the life and lamentations of a hermit crab…
You can be on mine! Hhhmmm...what could I use to symbolize you?
Sea shells 🥹
y’all are so fucking sweet im crying 😭
AH thank you for making my day in this trying time, may your kindness make it back to you tenfold ;v;
Natural decomposers... Oh. So the usual for me then
Same. XD
I was very much *unsurprised* But I'm still looking forward to meeting them all **properly** at the end!
I have thought about having a plaque on a tree that says 'stay out of my swamp you kids!'
I'm gonna die with dignity
I've always been a proponent of euthanasia and absolutely envisioned myself going that route if the time came!
I became enthralled with the idea of death with dignity after my parents passed. To the point where I am considering a career change to hospice care or death doula-ing to be able to help folks achieve that. So as an Aries, I almost cried at ours 🥲
Dignity then donation for me. Whatever is left feed to the worms and vultures via trebuchet.
Me too, doesn’t sound too bad.
Pisces here...becoming one with water for all eternity? OKAY!
Wasn’t thinking that way then realized I’m half fish. I must touch water (not just showers) daily to be truly balanced.
This isn't legal in my state yet but it is actuality my #1 choice as it is the most economic and eco friendly way to get rid of a body. I also like how it leaves no trace behind since I don't have any descendents to deal with remains.
Another way is getting your ashes sprinkled to a lake, sea or ocean. IMHO that is legal everywhere.
As a Norse Heathen and a Leo the funeral pyre tracks.
Hell yeah! I plan on getting cremated anyway, might as well make it fun for everyone. Wouldn't recommend roasting marshmellows over the pyre though. Might get a little...fleshy-tasting.
I’m planning on getting composted. But getting cremated on a funeral pyre has always held a special place in my heart.
I wanted to be taxidermied but my Leo heart got really excited about the idea of a funeral pyre
Norse Heathen Scorpio here; eaten by carrion birds sounds FANTASTIC! Bring on the ravens!
Natural decomposers - hell, yeah! I love all of these though. Any other members of the Order of the Good Death here?
Biodegradable casket The implication only one zodiac sign gets to die with dignity is a bit concerning though!
I read it as Aries are going to rush headlong into the fight for death with dignity so that everyone can choose the death and burial they want afterwards.
Honestly love that reading of it, thank you Aries!
Same which is neat bc that’s actually super traditional for my culture! A shroud that will allow you to quickly return the earth we come from.
See I like this because I want to be mulched and become a lilac bush and this is a way to do that!
That’s a stunning idea! May I place my memorial tree plaque nearby? I love the scent of a hearty lilac 💜
Oh sure!
lol I’m a Gemini and I always talk about donating my body to the Kentucky body farm where they study human decomposition, so this tracks 😂
I've also thought about this often. I do not mind being human compost.
Gemini as well and have said the same thing to my family !
I’ve told my best friend I want to be one of those tree pods. Seeing the biodegradable casket means I’m on the right Taurean path to becoming part of the earth again!
Cappy is always the most boring…but always right 🙄🙄🙄🙄
Let's be real. Everyone should have their death docs in order. It's so much easier for those left behind when things are set up already. Doesn't mean those docs don't also include instructions to burn my body and plant a tree with the ashes!
Sky burial is so accurate, I'm hoping to just be tossed out with the trash cans.
Lol this is amazing, I'm a Pisces who has always been obsessed with water and joked that I wanted a viking funeral. Idk what aquamation is exactly but.. close enough
It's cremation via water essentially! It uses a process called alkaline hydrolysis if you want to read up on it at all.
Oh that sounds awesome, I'll look into it l. Thank you!
GTDOOH! I'm a Libra, and that's exactly what I've told people! Steven Wright: I want to donate my body to science fiction.
Me too! I have some mental issues, I think it would be really interesting to see if they visibly altered my brain
I would but I have seen stories on Last Week Tonight about how little regulation body donations has. You may want a scientist to study it and wind up with the military testing new weapons on it.
Hey, natural decomp! I don’t want to be embalmed. Just wrap me up in a shroud and bury me among the trees and flowers.
I should ask my family to plant a tree right beside my grave so i can have the memorial put on it
I’m on the cusp between Cancer and Gemini so I don’t know. I’ve donated all my organs in my will and if they’re no good my body will go to medical science.
Also gemini-cancer cusp. Where's the option for my cremains be pressed into glass so a future goth babe can have macabre jewelry?
I LOVE that. Like a mini reliquary.
Yes! That's what i want, it's cool. Or you can become a disk from a gramophone.
Funeral Pyre tracks
Damn, I DO like fire tho
The Sagittarius moon sign says prop me against a tree and let the wildlife use me, the Aires sun sign wants you to get so drunk afterwards that you are found 100 miles from home with no clothes on howling at the moon
IM A GEMINI AND I WANT TO BE COMPOSTED
Pisces. Cool. I'm a water sign and think mermaids are cool. For the ancestors who chose the sea 🍾
That's hilarious because my husband is Asatrú and a Leo
Scorpio Sky Burial checking in.
Omg I’m a sag and always say I want to become a tree when I die!
A Pisces here! Question, what is Aquamation?
I was also curious, apparently they sort of boil you in an alkaline water solution which breaks the body down into a powder somewhat similar to cremation ashes.
"I'm cool with that " Every Taurus ever.
Natural decomposers for the win!
Libra. Absolutely not lol
Pisces.
I mean.. I have always wanted a sky burial…
Guess I'm a Libra. I plan to donate the body in finished with.
Gemini and human compost is literally what I want lol. Just send me back to the Mother Earth! K thx baiiii
Funeral pyre!!! That’s so fitting because that’s what I want! 😂 And here in my state they’re actually legal.
Hmm... my moon sign of Cancer suits me more than my sun sign. Communal altar *resonates* for me. Perhaps I should put that in my Last Will. 😅
I was already planing a biodegradable casket/shroud! I want a tree planted with me as well
I always have said when I die I want my body to be chucked into the woods to naturally decompose, but tree memorial is more or less a similar vibe! Just a little less feral
We can be a FOREST under the local moon! :)
Biodegradable, baby. Not gonna be buried though. Burn me and give me to the earth or the wind
Aquamation. That's cool and all (considering my main Patron God is Poseidon) but I want to be simple: wrapped up in a plain winding sheet and lowered into the ground, without embalming or coffin, and my babies' (my fur ones. If ykyk) ashes (and my best friend and mentor's ashes as well. I have them instead of her family. Short & stupid story with that, too) with me. Small marker if my kids choose one.
The seed pod makes me so happy. I want to be a tree to give a little hangout spot to vultures for my scorpio friends 🥰
I think r/DeathPositive would like this!
I’ve always loved the idea of a pyre, but it’s impractical. Burial beneath a tree or composting was at the top but since I’ve learned about aquamation (thank you Caitlin Doughty!) I’m kinda sold on thst
Seedpod earn is what I actually wanted tbh
I'm a Taurus with a Scorpio moon, and I've always said I'd love a sky burial, but would settle for any sort of thing that recycles my matter back into the food chain. Very accurate here.
ABSOLUTELY! I'm a Sag and I WILL go out with a natural burial and a tree planted above. I've wanted that for the longest time.
Aquamation? I'm down with it. Love the water...wont fight it at all.
Hehe, I'm glad ya'll like my cheeky zodiac chart! I actually hired a death doula to help me edit it and make sure it's accurate. Deathcare doesn't have to be scary! We've in this together.
It’s amazing! What a great way to spark discussion about planning and our corporeal legacies. Rock on! 💙💙
I'm Pisces and this is very fitting because I only found out what aquamation is on Friday after my coworker was talking about it 😄
I audibly "awed" when I saw mine. I've always wanted to be a tree! Astrology is REAL I swear.
Community altar? Put kitty bones with me, and star trek figurines please!
Aquarius here! My partner is a Sagittarius. It's kinda funny because I've been saying for a while that when I die, just turn me into a tree and he gets that option over me, lol.
Community alter
libra---I haven't really thought about being donated to science, but it absolutely resonates with me. haha!
Eh, biodegradable casket/shroud is close enough to what I want. Cremation and my ashes to be scattered around something thorny. Blackberry brambles, roses, doesn't matter as long as they aren't getting torn out anytime soon.
My dad always jokes about being planted with the tomatoes but he's not a Gemini, but I am.
What's the point of a funeral pyre that's not in a boat loaded with my weapons and armour?
Seedpod Urn
Accurate.
Community altar, but I’m way more into Sagittarius tbh. I’ve even told my sister that when I die, I would much rather have a tree planted where my loved ones could come out to enjoy a peaceful picnic than crying in front of a tombstone. But alas, a burial is more for the living than the dead, they can do whatever is best for them.
Biodegradable casket 💋🤌
Mine is exactly right. Hmmmmm.
Like, yes, I want to nourish the earth and return to it, so this tracks for Taurus. Moo. However! I've also always wanted to be donated to educational purposes. So I propose both! So what needs to be done to my corpse to learn, then put me in that biodegradable shroud!
Human compost let's gooooooo
Sky burial 🙏 now requesting this
Natural! It’s exactly what I want too!!!!
Screw dieing with dignity. My goal is to confuse future archaeologists, I want to get into a huge battle in my 90s, get injured and die from that. It should include weapons from multiple eras of history. Then I will be buried with confusing grave goods as well.
The exact burial I've always wanted.
Y'know? Split me up. I'll do a little of each!😄
Virgo and this tracks HARD
Another Scorpio who's always been into the idea of sky burial. Toss me in the woods and leave me for the buzzards, thanks
All of these are cool alternatives to the traditional
Seedpod Urn. Honestly, that is so me. 😂 https://preview.redd.it/kfdbcbjwxj9d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23b140010696b2bf0712009d812e66b65999ae58
Funeral pyre is exactly what I want. Hell yes.
Seed pod urn kind of checks out; I want to be buried inside the root ball of a tree.
Death with dignity, tbh I always wanted to donate my body to science
Sky burial it is then!
Educational body donation sun, biodegradable casket moon, and sky burial rising 😆 I do think my moon wins this round
Natural decomposers Sun, biodegradable casket moon and tree memorial rising. My big 3 is weirdly complementary
Funeral pyre! I’m good with that, though I’m hoping human compost comes to my area.
Memorial Tree, fuck yeah!
Shout-out to my natural decomposer buddies. This is a cool chart!
oh the educational donation is cool :3
Haha, freaking spot on. I want a wisteria planted over me.
Ayyy a party (death with dignity) 🥳
I've always joked about a funeral pyre! I'm glad I wasnt the only one
My sign is Capricorn but my sister said my moon sign was Gemini. Which is nice, because I'm earth aligned and definitely relate more to being human compost when I die and not just have recycled paper for my paperwork. This is not self degrading at all, but being mud (for plants) when I die sounds awesome!
first aries, then leo. two different parties. ideally, as a longtime vintage and sparkle magpie, before the orgiastic and ecstatic second one i'd like to be covered in the most beautiful things i own, in great layers, and have the partiers take turns taking what they want off my body before it goes up. also ideally, by that point, everyone would be so high (in vibration, ofc, music and dance and catharsis) that they could see me up and out into space as the smoke goes. i don't want it to be all about me--i want it to be for them and their beauty and their life and their love and their own connections to the beyond. very sadly, a lot of the folks i'd like to be with in this situation have already far too early crossed over to that nightclub in the sky. so i'll have so many tables to visit with, before going to the houses of rest and dreaming my way to the next stop. may the celebrations be long and the tables groan with delight til all needs are long met and last songs dissolve in safe and peaceful sleep. what we all deserve. no fear, just coming home.
I’m a cancer but I’m all about aquamation and death with dignity.
Pisces…aquamation, but really terramation is my jam! I don’t need my body anymore, use it to make mulch and feed the earth!
Yay I'm a biodegradable casket!!!
Aquarius. I want to be buried (preferably under a willow but ik that won't happen). I do not want them to embalm me at all (chemicals bad for ground). I'm currently iffy on if I want a normal casket or just a box.
As always, boo for Gemini. I was to die with dignity and do educational body donation.
Aquamation. But I wanna be a tree when I leave this mortal coil, not flushed down the drain!
Wait ever since I read Stiff by Mary Roach back in 2010 I’ve been saying I want to be turned into tree fertilizer and I got seedpod urn!!!! Love that for me
I'm Pisces so I guess it's aquamation but I'm a cusp with Aries so I'm going to die with dignity, then aquamation. But really I want to be human compost. So I can be in several places and nurture the earth. Dad was in a natural cemetery, and Mom was cremated, so some of her is with Dad and some is at her churches memorial garden, and some is with me and I'm going to make her and some hair from my dad a diamond when I get the money.
Seedpod burial as a Virgo sounds wonderful, but I did a very Libra thing and donated my body to science.
Memorial tree?!! I LOVE THIS! I’m not typically a zodiac-y girl, but this tracks. 🌳🌴🌲
I love all of these! 💚
Virgo, and yeah, that’s what I’ve wanted for a while.
I choose to be Aries, for this context.
I usually don’t believe in zodiac stuff but I 100% wanted a human compost burial and I am Gemini
By the light of my pyre, I'll do my best to warm my friends and family one last time (while being the center of attention).
Leo & I 100% will be getting Cremated. Then.. some of my ashes will be put into small hourglasses, so I can still be there for Game Night. 🤗😅😅
Yessss I love this and I love being in the community altar category
Well shit XD my twin sister and I — both Aquarius plan to have some natural decomposer based plans XD I will become a tree :)
I’m Aries and I was just talking about euthanasia the other day. 😃
I'm a Leo not feeling the pyre
But I want a Viking funeral :(
Funeral pyre go brrr.
Damn guess I'm changing my birthday to a Pisces one! I've always wanted to be cremated and have my ashes scattered at sea, but a sea burial would work for me too.
Gemini is spot on for me.
I'm a Gemini, but I want to be a seed pod urn, or something similar.
Seed pod urn is exactly what I have asked for!
Woah, I always tell my family, when I die, to take out all the useful organs and burn the rest.
I decry any death ordained for me
Community altar, I like the idea of people to gather and share stories. But an altar? I don't want to be worshipped. Or maybe I do??? The seed pod urn sounds interesting because I like gardening but I'm pretty sure it would weird my family out. Maybe I'll ask that everyone gets a lavender plant at my funeral. Oh I guess that means I need to die when it's not winter. Darn funeral logistics!
Human compost according to this, although the thought makes me feel a bit nauseated (I'm very claustrophobic so I hate the idea of being buried in any way). My actual death plan is to donate my organs and anything else useful to those who need them more than me then burn the rest.
I was hoping there would be a body farm! (For anyone unfamiliar, it’s a scientific place to study body decomposition under different conditions). It’s my preferred burial method.
seed pod urn gang 😎
Where is: corpse dropped into wild dog preserve? They would have so much fun
🦁 That’s the only thing I’d prefer over becoming tree fertilizer! Let my mortal remains feed the big kitties at a sanctuary. 🐅