I'm not sure if I do or not, haven't really thought about it. But think about the population of the world and how fast it's growing. How many more dead bodies are we willing to fill the ground we live on with? Again, I'm neutral to this idea at the moment but just a thought! :)

I want to be cremated and properly disposed of. I don't want people having to come and see me at a grave site forever and pay for the upkeep of a grave. I'd sooner they just keep me in their memories.

What's the sense in spending loads of money to stick a lifeless body into the ground?

I want to be cremated because I think using property for graves is wasteful.

I want to be cremated because I don't want future generations to go, Oh, I can't build a house there because it is a cemetary and my lifeless body is laying there in a box. I don't like the whole idea of funerals and tombstones, money spent on something for my kids or the environment would be better.

Cremation can actually be fairly cheaper...urns cam run as expensive as caskets....the most expensive urn being over $2,000...while the least being about $100....caskets the cheapest being about probably $1000...or less...but still...why would you want to be buried in something that you can't enjoy anyways...you're not even going to be there...haha....

Because who cares what happens after you die? All your body is going to do is rot and have worms crawling out of your eye sockets.

I want to be cremated because i'm claustrophobic and i can't think of anything worse than my body being trapped in a coffin. wow, that was a cheery answer.

The thought of being buried does not appeal to me at all for one if it rains alot your grave fills with water add the rotting body not a pleasant thought,also the insect life would be chomping away on me i want to be cremated and told all my family.

I want to be cremated because I don't want somebody digging me up later. Have you seen pictures of rotting corpses? That's disgusting. I don't like the thought of my body rotting away in some box in the ground. Plus, I want my ashes scattered in a natural setting.

My life will be about freedom, when it ends I don't want to be stuck in a box. :)

So my ashes can be spread all over the playboy mansion.

Once I'm dead it doesn't matter+5

I don't want to be in a box in the dark for people to walk all over & i know coffins are made great theese days but i don't want bugs crawling in my eye sockets, mouth etc. +5

I'd prefer promession. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promession What's the point of further polluting the environment with sticking a rotting corpse filled with formaldehyde into the water table?

I seriously don't care if i'm cremated or not.. Just throw me in a river or something, I'll be fine

I want to be cremated because I do not like or believe in the ways that the dead are typically treated! I don't like the waste of space, the interference with normal decomposition, the insistence of buying a cement vault, or any of the other trappings that are manipulative foisted off on the families of the dead! If I could have MY WAY...those who love me would take me to a safe place for a bonfire...stack enough wood and let er rip with me on top! Then they would probably cry, and then leave to have a great party with good food, drink, music and hopefully some laugher at great memories. I do not like the way we normally treat the dead. I built my Mother's casket out of oak, it was very simple but beautiful. I stained it her favorite green and then made the interior out of some fabric that was cream, blue and green in a Native American blanket design. I am a Medicine Woman of the Kumeyaay Tribe and so I am trained to prepare the dead. It did take me several days to find a mortuary that would ALLOW me to do this...but I found a wonderful man who often takes care of local tribal funerals...HE was fantastic. After washing her hair, I painted her with sacred clay, red, yellow, white...cut off my long hair and draped it over her feet, and since my cockatiel had died a couple of weeks before Mom, and I had not buried Oliver yet, and Mom loved him too...I wrapped him in a little silk cloth and set him in the crook of her arm. I put chocolate, tobacco, and some small things she enjoyed in life in with her. Some dear women came and helped me drum and chant and another dear friend who is also a minister, combed though my Mother's Bible and chose her marked, favorite passages to read from... My Mother was also a Veteran, and so those people also attended and did a formal folding of her flag, then presented it to me. The Funeral director/owner asked if he could attend her graveside ceremony as well...he had sat quietly watching when I did the ceremony at his place of business, in preparing her. He asked to speak and gave me a gift...He said with tears in his eyes that it was one of the most beautifully done, heartfelt ceremonies he had ever witnessed. That meant a lot to me, coming from him. He also supported me making her coffin, and gave me the legal size for it so that the graveyard couldn't reject it! He lost a sell, yet was happy to help me do this...he was a real human being. It was a good ending, and I think she knew how much I loved her and appreciated all that she did for me throughout my life... I couldn't have her cremated, she had been in a very bad car accident in her 20's and had been burned over 46% of her body...she was VERY against the idea and wanted to be buried....I couldn't blame her.. I miss her still.

It's the closest thing to being totally gotten rid of. +2

Cremation is way more space efficient.

i'm on the fence but the majority of family has either been cremated or is going to be. on one hand, i don't want rotting under ground in a box. i want to be free.