Fun’ Things To Do With Your Body When You Die

But it seems Australians are increasingly choosing to answer it for themselves with many requesting in their wills to be made into snow globes, vinyl records and other unusual things.

View Legal director Matthew Burgess, who specialises in estate planning, said the most common forms of body disposal in Australia included cremation, burial and donation to science.


 Vinyl records is one that is becoming increasingly popular among Baby Boomers.
“On average, we have seen multiple requests each year for the last few years.

 
He said other clients had requested for their hair and ashes to be made into diamonds or shot into the sky as firecrackers.
“Particularly the US, this approach is very popular,” Mr Burgess said.
It’s also a growing trend in Australia with some businesses, including Ashes to Ashes, specialising in “sending cremated ashes skyward”. The next fire cracker you buy may be someone's ashes. Just so you know.

 An Australian organisation is set to break ground on a $500,000 NSW facility to offer people the chance to be cryonically frozen after death in the hope that they could one day come back to life.

 
“This one concept raises a myriad of practical issues from a medical perspective, and even more issues from a legal perspective.”
Other controversial concepts relating to human body disposal include the infamous cases of author Hunter S Thompson, whose ashes were reportedly “shot out of a cannon”; Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards who claimed to have “snorted” his father’s ashes; and rap artist Tupac Shakur’s whose former Outlawz band members revealed they smoked his ashes after the funeral.

It seems the possibilities when it comes to human body disposal are limited only to one’s imagination. And of course, the law. Most importantly your money!!!