Is this a serious question? Personally I would rather be cremated. As a child, I watched my grandfather's coffin being lowered into a muddly hole on a freezing cold wet Winter day and was terribly upset at the thought of leaving him there to rot in the dark and damp.

Since then, I have attended the cremations of a number of close friends and relatives, including my father and my brother-in-law. Upsetting as these occasions were, the idea of setting their spirits free through fire was more comforting than mouldering in the earth.