What Not To Do With My Remains

[dr_pretentious]

Until I started writing fiction, I didn't know I had an obsession with bizarre funerary customs. Grave goods, mummification, ritual grave robbing, cremation, burning boats, decorative ossuaries--bring it on, there's a place in the Big Book for all of it.

All of it except this.

It's not gross. It's perfectly worksafe. It won't give you nightmares. It might give you a good laugh. The basic premise isn't any weirder than mummification, really. Nonetheless...

I'm with seedmoon on this one. Whatever you do with me, don't do that.

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Re: Crafts with the dead!

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

Oh, and the word "cremains" kind of bugs me. I'm used to various industries coining words by squashing together perfectly serviceable existing words as a way of coming up with something they can brand or trademark, but in this context, it seems kind of tacky. New, improved cremains (TM), now with silky texture! Smythe brand cremains (TM) stay crunchy even in milk! See what I mean? If nobody's done it yet, somebody will soon.

I do kind of like the idea of incorporating the remains into the memorial. For one thing, it eliminates the problem of having to move graveyards for highways, reservoirs, etc. You just pick up the whole sculpture garden and arrange it somewhere else.