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I believe that the truest parts of people can be buried, and for many different reasons.

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.

In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that the ground doesn't settle. That body is encased in many layers of denial.

I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.

If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.

If you've done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that's where life stops.

I haven't really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.