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I've had a huge argument before with an ex about what happens when I die. She was insistent that we be buried in her family tomb, so that our descendants may co
by SenHeng 4y ago
I've had a huge argument before with an ex about what happens when I die. She was insistent that we be buried in her family tomb, so that our descendants may continue to visit and remember us. I rejected that because I'm an atheist and I want a space burial [0]. That then detoured into a huge argument about how that's not really religion, that's just tradition, and following tradition is The Right Thing™.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_burial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_burial
- solidsnack9000 4y agoPlease get buried in the family tomb. Getting a space burial is just religion. Ancestor worship is tradition and religion.
- SenHeng 4y agoIf I can’t rot away inside a photon torpedo drifting endlessly in space, the next best thing is burning in a blaze of glory as I re-enter the atmosphere. The kids can keep my pinky bone if they insist on following silly ancient rituals. Anyway, the point is that I have not and probably will never have the good fortune of traveling into into space in my lifetime. At least let me do so in death. I promise you you’ll still get your inheritance.
- JoeDaDude 4y agoI tell my relatives to bury such that I become a fossil, to be discovered by future paleontologists, probably of some species other than human. Bury me in a muddy river bed that will become sedimentary rock in a few eons. But I want to take a message to the future. It would have to be made of wood or similar so it too fossilizes, something like an abacus or an astrolabe, so the future excavators know that we had a technological civilization.