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I don't like the idea of burial, never have. It's not any fear of post-mortem claustrophia or fear of rotting remains, I just don't see the point of it. It's wasteful, and unnecessary. The body is of little or no use once life has left it, and burial only wastes land that could be put to far better use.
I figure on making some use of my body if I can.
Having been a long-time watcher of CSI (although, with the recent departure of Grissom, there's little point in watching anymore), I learned of the idea of the body farm. I'm guessing such things do exist. The idea is that your body is left exposed to the elements to rot away in its own natural fashion. This provides invaluable information to forensic science. It provides purpose to otherwise useless remains. They do, in fact, exist, but not in Canada that I know of.
Barring that, donation of entire corpse to medical study is an option. Though, apparently, they don't take every body they're offered - they take what they need, and they won't always need you. Personally, I wouldn't care what they did with me. I'm all for being used to practice on in cadaver class if that's all the purpose they can find for me.
The last options are cremation and scattering, or organic burial. They burn you and toss what's left into a scattering garden at a cemetary; or, in the case of the latter, they bury you whole without any chemicals at all, in a garden under a tree, where you proceed to rot and do what the rotting are meant to do - continue the cycle of, pardon the pun, life. You can also now have your body reduced to a liquid form that can then be used to feed a garden.