Fancy being buried under a Tree?

[arctic hobo]

You'd likely starve first, then the lack of energy from food would get you very slowly. Plus your unmoving limbs would get frostbite then gangrene, which would quickly spread to the rest of your body. If you ask me, there's little to choose between them

 

[JakeR]

Wouldn't you freeze a long time before you starved?

 

[arctic hobo]

It depends on a lot of things... including how cold it is! But from the accounts I have read, you would starve then freeze, although of course both would be going on at the same time. Plus the gangrene would be going on etc... it's impossible to say, it depends on so much. :?:

 

[JakeR]

A pretty morbid conversation!

Hopefully i won't have to worry about it for a good few years...:yikes:

Cheers. :biggthump

 

[Fluxus]

I would like to be composted - spread on the allotment - (sprouts?) and indirectly eaten by my family at christmas.

 

[gillmacca]

When i go, i would like to pass away in the Canadian/American Wilderness, someone where hardly anybody goes, so that when my body decomposes and finally nothing is left, I (or at least my body) will be free in the wilderness, and if ghosts are real, then maybe I will be able to roam the wilderness

 

[Ranger Bob]

When i go, i would like to pass away in the Canadian/American Wilderness, someone where hardly anybody goes, so that when my body decomposes and finally nothing is left, I (or at least my body) will be free in the wilderness, and if ghosts are real, then maybe I will be able to roam the wilderness

yes!

 

[JakeR]

When i go, i would like to pass away in the Canadian/American Wilderness, someone where hardly anybody goes, so that when my body decomposes and finally nothing is left, I (or at least my body) will be free in the wilderness, and if ghosts are real, then maybe I will be able to roam the wilderness

Actually, that sounds like a plan...:biggthump

 

[gillmacca]

Actually, that sounds like a plan...:biggthump

Only problem is knowing when I am going to die. Don't think the respective governments would allow me to go into the wilderness at a really old age

 

[JakeR]

But you can get your ashes spread about the wilderness surely?

 

[brucemacdonald]

I have always liked the final scene in the film "Dark Star" where, having seen their starship blown up by a nuclear explosion, the last two survivors are blown apart. One joins a group of asteroids; the other surfs his way to a fiery death on entering the atmosphere of the planet below.

One of the last lines in the film is, "What a beautiful way to die, as a falling star". I have always been interested in space so perhaps in the not-too-distant future someone will offer a service where ashes are sent up in a rocket, and scattered in space to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere as a meteor shower.

Other than that, ecoburial is the most likely option for me.

I don't think this is a morbid thread; as bushcrafters we should know that everything has a course to run and that death is inevitable. Our society tries to sanitise the whole thing but really it is just a normal part of nature.

Best wishes

Bruce

 

[Seagull]

Dont know about being buried under a tree.

However, I frequently see , in the woods, small tokens of commemoration to folk who spent a lot of time there.

Very touching.... , makes me think of the others who,ve enjoyed the place.

Seagull

 

[Fluxus]

perhaps in the not-too-distant future someone will offer a service where ashes are sent up in a rocket, and scattered in space to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere as a meteor shower.

Other than that, ecoburial is the most likely option for me.

bit of a leap between the most atmospherically destructive thing you could think of and being eaten by our friends the soil bacteria.

bushcraft vs. spacecraft ?
showdown!