Things To Do With Bodies When They're Dead

An old room mate of mine and I would have some weird conversations. Lots of "would you rather?", and various drunken rambles at two in the morning.

On a particular night he asked me to do a something for him when he dies.

I was to get his body somehow (he was telling me to do this without his wife at the time knowing), most likely I would have to body-nap him. 

Hopefully he would be well preserved. 

Once I had him I was to position him in a casket you could see into, glass or plastic. The casket would have a light display set up either behind it or inside at the back. I would then put J in the casket and fill it with some sort of gelatine, blue or green jello or something similar. Something opaque but with the light shinning through it J would be visible. Once that was all done and the jello, or gelatine, was set J was to be put in a corner and a massive party would be thrown in his honour. I immediately said yes. When his then wife found out she was less than enthused. I would like to say that when he dies I'm definitely going to  do this but I'm not sure its going to be that easy and I'm a bit lazy. I like to tell myself it is still going to happen though.

It reminds me of Gram Parsons friends stealing his body to bury him out in the desert.

also makes me think of this. Fast forward to about 1:30:

I don't want anything that elaborate for my funeral or burial.

I feel the simpler the better.

I would like a "green" burial. No preserving of the body. No crazy ceremony. I am a fairly simple guy and would just like to return back to the ecosystem that created and sustained me. Throw me in the woods for animals and plants to feed on my nutritious body, if I haven't already ruined it with all the crappy chemicals I've ingested.
There is even a a cemetery in victoria that will provide this.
http://www.robp.ca/our-services/natural-green-burial/
Simple and elegant.