Burial in Africa

[Sabre]

What if you op for just dip and pack?

Then the shipping back is cheaper, but with the cremation and funeral cost higher in the states vs. Africa, it's about a wash.

 

[Sideshow]

With my personality I’d probably come back as a scrum cap buffalo. My wife says that would be an upgrade.

How about a honey badger

 

[Sideshow]

I've always planned to donate my body to science, as a cadaver.

God in hell not for me! Worked with a student doc one holiday and some of the stories he told me of what they did with those cadavers apparently a favourite trick was when they were done with them and before cremation they would hide a pacemaker in a leg. These would explode in the oven. Scared the bejesus out of whoever was at the controls

 

[Muskox]

I would not allow myself, spouse or children to be used for science. Then you become a product to sell.

I was on home leave recruiting about 30 years ago a kid we had signed to ship in a week got killed in a car accident (drinking with friends, killed 4 of them). He was an organ donor. They kept that poor sob alive on life support for a week until they could harvest all his organs.

The hospital would not release the body to be buried. Family was livid.

Everyone in my family is an organ donor, God bless us if we have to go through that unknown hell. Knowing that they are alive, but not alive.

 

[cwickgo9]

I'm an organ donor so they can take whatever's left that's useful. My wife wants her body donated to science.
I've already paid for cremation and have travel insurance to bring the body back from wherever. If I die overseas, the organ donation part will probably not be an option. I told her and my sons to do with the ashes whatever makes them feel good - I won't know or care.
Both my parents were cremated and I spread their ashes where I felt good about it.
I wouldnt mind being left in Africa if that's where I fell. Being quickly converted back via jackal, hyena, vulture or what-have-you wont matter since I wont be there having "left the building". If I had a differing opinion, it might depend on the circumstances - out hunting or get killed in some senseless traffic accident of some kind or being in the wrong place at the wrong time to fall victim to predators. But again, regardless of the cause, whatever they do with what's left I really wont care as I'll have other things to do.

 

[PARA45]

I'm surprised no outfitter/PH has jumped in on this interesting thread to give their point of view on what they would do. Maybe it's a liability thing, I don't know. If it was me, I'd say leave me there, make arrangements for the least expensive burial and call it a day. I'm sure the PH will be happy with the free rifle(s) and ammo I'll be leaving them.

 

[Betterinthebush]

I would not allow myself, spouse or children to be used for science. Then you become a product to sell.

I was on home leave recruiting about 30 years ago a kid we had signed to ship in a week got killed in a car accident (drinking with friends, killed 4 of them). He was an organ donor. They kept that poor sob alive on life support for a week until they could harvest all his organs.

The hospital would not release the body to be buried. Family was livid.

Everyone in my family is an organ donor, God bless us if we have to go through that unknown hell. Knowing that they are alive, but not alive.

Exactly.

 

[Ontario Hunter]

I’ve said before, a return as a white Kalahari Ferrari would be about as bad as it could get

Dad and I discussed this one day back in the eighties. "Son, you've got a lot of education. Tell me what you've learned about the Bhuddists. Do you think there's anything to that reincarnation stuff?" Don't know for sure. Why? "Well, my life hasn't been perfect. I'm worried I might come back as a front seat to one of our city cop cars. Those fat bastards spend way too much time in the donut shop and Mexican food joint on main street." Have another beer, Dad.

 

[Ontario Hunter]

I would not allow myself, spouse or children to be used for science. Then you become a product to sell.

I was on home leave recruiting about 30 years ago a kid we had signed to ship in a week got killed in a car accident (drinking with friends, killed 4 of them). He was an organ donor. They kept that poor sob alive on life support for a week until they could harvest all his organs.

The hospital would not release the body to be buried. Family was livid.

Everyone in my family is an organ donor, God bless us if we have to go through that unknown hell. Knowing that they are alive, but not alive.

If it saves someone else's life, the hospital could keep me on life support for a month. My family is smart enough to figure that out.

 

[Philip Glass]

It would likely depend not only on the country but laws in the locality for something like this. I am sure it is possible.

 

[Altitude sickness]

We may or may not have built a rock cairn and spread some of our friend’s ashes on an undisclosed Colorado mountain. Then each shot an arrow.

He had been hunting elk and Mule Deer in the west since the 1950s.

 

[Hyde Hunter]

I'm surprised no outfitter/PH has jumped in on this interesting thread to give their point of view on what they would do. Maybe it's a liability thin so the g, I don't know. If it was me, I'd say leave me there, make arrangements for the least expensive burial and call it a day. I'm sure the PH will be happy with the free rifle(s) and ammo I'll be leaving them.

I told my wife when I buy a rifle that it is insurance money for her so the PH had better make sure she gets it back or I will come back and haunt him for the rest of his life!

 

[Beck]

God in hell not for me! Worked with a student doc one holiday and some of the stories he told me of what they did with those cadavers apparently a favourite trick was when they were done with them and before cremation they would hide a pacemaker in a leg. These would explode in the oven. Scared the bejesus out of whoever was i what the controls

I won't be using it anymore

 

[wesheltonj]

Nope, box me up and ship me back home so I can be buried in Texas in my Stainless Steel casket (no rust when the water starts seeping into the concrete vault) so I turn to jello in the sealed container.

Speaking of Mexico. In the early 1960's my father was on a fishing trip in Mexico and one of the group members died. He said they put him in the back of the truck and made a beeline for the border as not to have to fool with the Mexican government. That was the easiest way to bring back the remains.

 

[Ontario Hunter]

I worry more about my dogs not making it home from our annual hunting trip to Montana. Three years ago little French Britt almost didn't survive the trip to Minneapolis for emergency surgery. Figured if it came to the worst I'd just curl her up in her bed in back like she was asleep and make a run for the border, though doubtful I would have made it across. Those greedy bastards at the animal hospital undoubtedly would have ratted me out to border authorities for not cremating her at their facility. I paid those SOBs twelve grand at checkout and they balked at giving me the rest of the canned chicken Puppy had finally started to eat. "We didn't invoice for that." The expletives flew with sufficient quantity and quality for everyone in the crowded waiting room to hear. Two couples took their pets and left with me.

I think getting a dead pet home would be much more difficult than a human family member. But hunting dogs are every bit as meaningful.

 

[Hogpatrol]

If you were to go au naturel back to the earth, consumption by salt water crocodiles would be the way. Considering they've been here for over 83 million years and outlasted the dinosaurs, you'd be around until the sun burns out.

 

[Rare Breed]

I'll be done. I may have a little comfort in THINKING that I know what I'd like done will actually happen, but in the end...it won't matter.

I'd be more concerned with knowing my rifles will be sold for what they are worth and not what I told my wife I paid for them. LOL.

Okay @BeeMaa two things: 1. That’s funny!!!!! 2. You must be my brother from another mother because my wife knowing what I paid for my rifles would be my biggest concern…she might just come up to heaven to kick my a!& on that!!!