Things to Do With Your Dead Body...Besides Cram it in a Box and Stick it in the Ground...

Blog Prompt: What are some alternative funerary methods in BC?

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2010/09/crashtest_corpses.html

The first thing that I thought about when we were given this prompt was "Hey, I could donate my body to science!" which, indeed, is an option...if you meet the requirements. In order to donate your body to the UBC  Faculty of Medicine you must be over the age of 30 at the time of death and, usually, you have to fill out some paper work before you are dead...your family cannot just donate your body after you are gone, you actually have to sign consent forms in order to have your body accepted. Also, your body may be turned down due to...

 Infectious diseases (e.g. HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B or C)
• Severe antibiotic resistant infections (e.g. MRSA, VRE)
• Obesity 
• Extensive trauma to the body (including recent major surgery) 
• Suicide or traumatic death 
• Autopsy or Coroner’s case 
• Delay in notification of death 
• Most organ donations with the exception of corneal transplant (eye donation) 

( http://www.cellphys.ubc.ca/bodyprogram.html ) <---that's the website for more info.

UBC has the ONLY body donation program in all of BC so you (or more likely your family) are responsible of getting...your corpse to UBC. Public Transit is not encouraged I imagine.

Another alternate you can look at in BC is burial at sea. This method, seemingly simple, actually takes a lot of planning. In order to be buried at sea you must acquire a permit at least 8 weeks before "need" of the permit and you must also announce it in the paper and (depending where you are) you have to be X nautical miles from shore and, you have to get a boat, and organize all the other funerary type things as well. This method can be quite expensive and all the paper work make for a lot of hoops to jump through... easiest way to be buried at sea is to join the Navy. 

THIS IS NOT AVAILABLE IN BC. But it seems sort of cool so I'll mention it any ways! The process of "aquamation" has been used in Australia and some places in the states (Florida) and is viewed as more eco-friendly than cremation. Basically, your body is placed in a steel container and potassium is added and so is 93 °C water. After 4 hrs the flesh and organs have decomposed off of your bones. After that, I've read, your bones are broken down or crushed or something to that effect and returned to your family, leaving them with something equivalent to ashes  after a cremation. The cool part about aquamation is that it only uses 10% of the energy that a cremation needs AND there is no toxic emissions... the sites don't tell you what happens to the potassium water that you are dissolved in though... oh well, life needs a little bit of mystery!

(looks like a VERY large washing machine to me...)

http://www.orble.com/new-way-to-kill-the-dead/

So those are some alternates to being stuck in a hole or being burned to a crisp!