What you decide to do with your body after death is very personal. Cremation? Full body burial in a grave with a casket. Would you like to be interred aboveground in a crypt or mausoleum? Everyone has their own decisions to make. Go online or to the library and look up the Capuchin Catacombs in Italy. It's worth your time as the pictures are compelling. The catacombs were open from about the mid 1500s through the early 1900s. People were placed in a variety of positions (sitting, standing, lying down, etc.) and they are in those positions to this day. The clothes that they were interred in are in most cases still in pretty good condition. Some look like they are ready for a conversation with you today.
The actor Larry Hagman (the TV show Dallas) says that "he would like his body to be scattered over a field and have marijuana and wheat planted and harvest it in a couple of years and then have a big marijuana cake, enough for 200 to 300 people. People would eat a little Larry".
So it's very personal and it's up to you to decide. It would be kind of you to decide so that your survivors do not have to make that difficult (for them) decision.
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