Traditionally, there have been very few options for what you
can have done to your body after you die. The vast majority of
people choose between either being buried in a coffin or being
cremated. For some people though, both of these can be seen to
be rather mundane and of little relevance to the life of the
deceased, even if cremation does allow the ashes to be
scattered in a special location. Rather than do what everyone
else does when they die, some people would rather have a
send-off that is far more personal and unique, celebrating the
things in life that they loved.
Luckily, there are a number of companies and businesses
around the world that offer services that are more unique than
burial or cremation. These sometimes bizarre options are
perfect for those who want to do something different from the
norm when they pass. Many people will already know about
being able to have your ashes shot into space or donating your
body to medical science, but there are many other unique
things you can do with your body when you die. They not only
provide family members and loved ones with a more distinctive
way to memorialize you and your life, but can, in some cases,
even help the world become a better place.

12. Become A Tree

One of the most unique things you can do when you die is to
become a tree. A company known as Bios Urn has taken the
idea of being as eco-friendly as possible, allowing those who
really care about the earth to be as green as possible when they
pass away. The work of product designer Gerard Moline, the
Bios Urn is a fully biodegradable urn that ashes can be placed
into. It can support any type of seed and will support the plant
until it grows sufficiently, using your ashes and the
surrounding soil as part of the nutrients it takes in.
The urns themselves are made up of a collection of materials
including coconut shell and compacted peat, meaning that they
will not leave anything harmful behind when the seed inside
eventually grows out. The Bios Urn also has an added benefit
in that it gives your family and friends something to remember
you by in the form of the tree.

11. Become A Vinyl Record

And Vinyly is a UK company that states that they will
incorporate your ashes into an old-school style vinyl record,
with a choice of music or sound recording of your own
choosing for around $4,000. The entire service offers the
chance to have your ashes pressed into 30 individual records,
each with a running total of around 24 minutes, as well as the
chance to have a desired portrait painted specially for the
album cover to be printed onto the record sleeve. They will
even distribute the vinyl to a number of specialist stores if you
want people to be able to buy your morbid musical collection.

10. Help Test Car Safety

The bodies of dead humans have long been used by the
automotive industry as test crash dummies. While specially
made alternatives have been developed that can simulate many
of the responses a person would go through in a crash,
especially in recent times, some still prefer to supplement
research with real-life bodies. This is because they offer the
most accurate representation of what type of forces can cause
injury, as they are identical to a living body. Additionally, they
can often be far cheaper to use than the expensive crash test
dummies as volunteers who bequeath them to be used in this
way provide the cadavers.

Another way that corpses are used in this type of research is to
provide information and data that can go towards helping to
create even more refined dummies in the future. Donating your
body upon your death to such a cause means that you will be
helping to make cars all that more safer and may even
contribute to saving thousands of lives every year.

9. Get Turned Into Ammunition

There are a number of specialist services that allow family
members or friends to turn their loved ones’ ashes into
ammunition that can actually be fired. The fully functioning
ammunition comes in a variety of different forms, including
bullets that work with handguns to shotgun shells and
cartridges. The ashes are spread evenly into around 250 bullets
or shells, with a small amount of the substance mixed in with
the gunpowder that propels the ammunition out of the weapon
when ignited.

One particular company known as Holy Smoke, offers a variety
of different services that range in prices starting from $1,200
and the ability to load the ashes into a variety of different
caliber bullets, including high-powered ammunition for rifles.

8. Create A Firework

Heavenly Stars Fireworks is a company that will incorporate
the ashes of any person who has died with specially designed
fireworks that they claim will “send your loved one or friend
off in style”. The service offered by the company includes the
option to have a professional display organized for you, or to
have self-fire fireworks manufactured so that they can be fired
in a specific place or at a particular time. This allows friends
and family to gather and remember their loved one in a
celebration of their life that culminates in the firework display.

A notable example of someone’s ashes being used to make a
firework came in 2005. Journalist and writer HunterS
Thompson loved explosions and so when he died, his ashes
were mixed with the materials used to make the explosive and
shot from a canon over his home.

7. Get Plastinated

First developed in 1977 by anatomist professor Gunther von
Hagens, Plastination is a technique that allows living tissue,
body parts and even entire bodies to be completely preserved
in their original form. The professor accepts bodies from those
who consent before they die, meaning anyone can sign up to
have their body preserved and put on display in the
Bodyworlds exhibition.
Plastination is a complicated process that involves several
main steps. Firstly, preservatives are injected into the body to
stop soft tissues from decomposing then the specimen is placed
in acetone to draw out water. The body must then be put into a
bath containing liquid polymer, such as silicone rubber or
polyester and boiled so that the plastic replaces the vaporized
acetone in every cell before it is finally hardened using one of
a number of methods. This process usually takes around 3
months for humans, but bigger samples can take longer.

6. Provide Electricity For Fellow Citizens

Some crematoriums now make use of the intense heat used to
cremate dead bodies by using the energy to produce electricity
that is fed back into the national grid. Local officials in the
small town of Hamstad first proposed the idea in Sweden, in
2008. The plans have since spread to other parts of the country
and to Denmark, with several crematoriums now recycling the
heat to help power homes and reduce their own costs. Not only
does the scheme help the environment by not wasting energy,
but the fact that the crematoriums no longer have to buy excess
water and other materials to cool the toxic smoke, means there
is less trash too.

Sweden has previous in this sort of area. They have been using
the bodies of dead rabbits as a source of energy for several
years. The animals are a huge pest in the country and rather
than simply burn the dead carcasses, the government chose not
to waste them and instead, sends them to a special company
that specializes in creating oils to power machines from dead
animals.

5. Save The Coral Reef

Another way that you can give back to the environment after
you have died is to have your ashes incorporated into special
made underwater structures that are made to help coral reefs to
grow. The company had already been using the so-called Reef
Balls since 1992. They are specially designed structures that
are made out of natural materials that artificially recreate
elements of a reef to help rehabilitate dying reefs and to
provide a suitable habitat for the fish and other marine life that
live in the area. They can withstand huge forces from storms
and the tides, and have become a vital way to help stop the
death of coral reefs around the world.

The idea for using the Reef Balls as a unique way to
memorialize a loved one came when one of the founders
relatives mentioned that he would like to have his final resting
place in the sea, as he would be constantly surrounded by life.
After carrying out that final wish by mixing his ashes in with
the other materials used to make the Reef Balls, the company
saw the potential to offer this service to others and it grew from
there.

4. Become A Keepsake

For some, the idea of simply having their ashes scattered when
they die is too impersonal. It doesn’t give them a chance to be
memorialized effectively or be useful. Scattering Ashes, a site
that deals most with advice for those who have had their loved
ones cremated, also offers several services to customers so that
the ashes of a relative or friend can be incorporated into the
design of a keepsake. This includes jewelry, where ashes can
be placed in a hollow piece as a resting place or mixed in with
the materials used to make the piece. Other items includes
birdbaths, sundials and other outdoor monuments.

They are not the only company to offer such services, though.

A variety of different websites and businesses have been set up
in recent times that allow for human ashes to be used in the
creation of keepsakes and mementos.

3. Get Cryogenically Frozen

Cryogenics is the science that studies how materials act when
they are exposed to extreme cold temperatures, whereas
cryonics is the process that is regularly seen in movies and
science fiction stories, hereby humans are frozen so that they
can be re-animated at a later date. Several companies offer
services that will keep bodies in cold storage after death but
the most well known is probably the Cryonics Institute.

They allow anyone to sign up for a fee in excess of $28,000
and will immediately attempt to put you into a cryonic state
when your heart stops beating. This will mean that you are
legally dead but that your brain still has some function.

The body is then vitrified rather than frozen, with the water being
removed from cells and replaced with chemicals that help to
slow molecules down, so that people are put into a state of
suspended animation, with the hope being that they can be
resuscitated when medical advances have been made.

2. Be Eaten By Mushrooms

Many of the most common processes used to deal with the
bodies of dead humans can be very harmful to the
environment. Burying the dead in coffins can poison soil and
damage life in the area, as they can be built with hazardous
materials, while cremation releases pollutants and uses a large
deal of energy. To combat this, an MIT research fellow known
as Jae Rhim Lee set about creating a way to deal with corpses
without raising any environmental concerns.
The answer is what she calls the Infinity Burial Project, but is
more commonly known as the mushroom death suit. Built out
of two layers of organic cotton and netting along with
specialized liquid slurry, the suit has mushroom spores inter-
weaved throughout it. The suit makes the perfect habitat to
grow the fungi, which then go on to not only decompose the
body quickly and efficiently, but also remove pollutants and
toxins.

1. Help Solve Crimes

Crime scene forensics isn’t as glamorous as it is sometimes
portrayed on television and in movies. However, it can be a
hugely valuable science that can aid police and investigators in
helping to solve crimes. One of the main areas of research in
forensics deals with the decomposition of bodies, with
researchers examining its effects. This allows them to tell how
long a body has been dead, where it has been and what types of
injuries the person sustained before death.

The primary way that this type of research is carried out
through Forensic Anthropology Centers, otherwise known as
body farms, such as the one at the University of Tennessee. At
such places, researchers use bodies that have mainly been
donated by normal people and work to look at how quickly
they decompose in different conditions, passing that
information on in order to directly help put together criminal
cases.


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. nice

Number 12 is ma thing!!!...

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In this part of the world, the value of a corpse is it's use for money rituals.
Ask alhaji Kabiru, or alfa Jimoh. A human skull goes for anything between N5k to N25k

igetemi:
. lol

my guy wats so funny.

dyadeleye:
Number 12 is ma thing!!!...

hmm

whirlwind7:


In this part of the world, the value of a corpse is it's use for money rituals.
Ask alhaji Kabiru, or alfa Jimoh. A human skull goes for anything between N5k to N25k

guy u funny o. Reason y it like dat cos dey don't think outside the box.

Yet in this part of the world we still kill each other on accusations of witchcraft. Smh, the whiteman is light years away in terms of advancement.

dyadeleye:
Number 12 is ma thing!!!...

Why? Only to become firewood or worst still charcoal or another man's coffin.

Interesting....

Akanniade:

Why? Only to become firewood or worst still charcoal or another man's coffin.

Not interested jare! No one should be made to go through these harsh conditions all in the name of civilization, can't the dead just rest in peace?

13 . You also becum nonexistent.

God dey use ur body do ASUN/BERBERQUE(hw dem dy spell am?)(na so dose pple taught me o)una still wan mk dem burn ur body. . Kai!! Fire is ur surname. Lol.


I prefer my ashes mixed with a golden pendant and passed down the generations.

Or my body preserved and kept in my company's HQ(I wl be a C.E.O) just like BRITISH PHILOSOPHER(JEREMY BETHAM) did.

quite informative