Luke Perry's daughter says he was buried in a mushroom suit

I have four questions, but I'll wait to see if anyone else asks them first.

A mushroom suit. Huh. Two ideas I never thought to put together.

I hope he will make a delicious duxelles sauce for her filet mignon.

Too much information.

I recently saw a recent pic of Luke Perry and Jason Priestly that Priestly posted with a tribute. They were cheek to cheek and it looked awfully intimate.

Why didn’t they just cremate him?

That only makes sense if he was buried in a totally biodegradable casket.

I still want to know why a 52 year old had a massive stroke.

I thought they fried him.

R8. No, they sauteed him in butter.

Well of course now it makes sense, r9. What with the mushroom reduction and all.

R1, I don’t think your questions were asked.

This is somehow sad and gross, but it sounds so ethical and earthy and good for nature. Very green and responsible but oddly upsetting to me. As R7 points out, must be combined with a biodegradable casket or this makes no sense. This is a heartbreaking choice for a family to make, but the alternative of preserving the corpse is ghoulish, though that's what most have been raised to do in our culture.

Damnit I want to know the 4 questions!

Pics or it didn’t happen.

Washington state has just made it legal to compost a body vs cremating, embalming, or burying in a casket. I live in Washington state, and I'm all for it. I'd love to have my remains grow a lovely shade tree in my garden. What we do with our dead is very wasteful of energy, resources, and land.

I think I'll stick with being cremated.

What was the thing Nate from 6 Feet Under had done?

I don't think it's sad at all. The reason I don't want to be buried is because I don't like that the body can't return to the earth, so I completely understand why they did this.

Oh, man. His son would get IT.

To riff off R7 and R12, you know it's gonna be that he was buried in some lead-lined, hermetically-sealed $20,000 casket.

During Merovingian time, people would be buried in plaster casket, completely hermetic, the bacterias ended up eating everything, including the clothes and their metal parts. The worst for archeologist, everything is gone...

Cremation is just so much easier

I'll never think of mushroom pizza the same way.

They could have turned him into a diamond

I think cremation is okay, except for babies. The first time I heard of a baby being cremated, the idea upset me. Years later, I learned from the Ask The Mortician lady how it was done, and it really disturbed me.

With adults, they just slide in the body. With babies, the cremation technician has to pitch the baby into the apparatus in the same way one pitches a softball, aiming for the center...

The reason she told us this is to show that, for the cremation tech, as time goes on, the process doesn't become easier for them, it grows harder.

This is wonderful. Honestly, I’d choose this. The cost is around $1500. Biodegradable coffin is about the same.

Or you can shell out many thousands to the ghoulish industry that persuades you to embalm, buy a ridiculous casket made of expensive wood, lined with satin and pillows and has brass handles. Many of these got for $10K and up. For what? We’re not historically important.

Plant a grove of trees over us, and us below. A better testament to the world.

"Your tomatoes look lovely this year!"

"Thanks -- they were fertilized by Luke Perry's decomposing body."

R25 Jesus that's morbid 😕

Patricia Knatchbull, Countess Mountbatten was buried in a wicker coffin (I assume unembalmed and dressed in biodegradable clothing/shroud).

It's pretty common in the UK, but that was the first high profile environmentally friendly funeral that I've seen.

The Duchess of Devonshire also buried Green as was Dame June Whitfield.

Wrap me in a crisp percale sheet and lower me down. I don't need a basket.

He's lying to you, Mr Gullible at r28. All bodies are inside a container that is put into the chamber, usually on a wheeled hopper sort of system.

They don't toss pets or midgets into a crematorium, either.

r31 likes to push his dick into every crack, but sometimes, it get chopped off:

[quote]Washington state has just made it legal to compost a body

Does this involve a wood chipper or something?

It freaked me out when I read about them having a funeral for someone who wasn't embalmed and they just put them in the living room in a box sitting on a bunch of ice and then hurried up because they only had three days before he started rotting. Ugh. Just cremate them.

And, the mushroom thing...I saw one episode of the show Hannibal (I think that's what it's called) and he had his victims kept half alive in the basement and was growing mushrooms out of their half dead bodies. That image scarred me.

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Good for him. Nothing is better than healthy soil full of lots of organic matter.

This could be the new "kicked the bucket".

"Mom sounded great when I last talked to her, but she put on the mushroom suit last night while she was asleep."

"Dad, the doctor says you need to start thinking about getting fit for the mushroom suit."

"Diana was way too young for the mushroom suit."

Doesn't always work that way, R21.

We eat mushrooms when we're alive, and when we're dead, mushrooms eat us.

For the sake of our good Earth, I hope they removed Luke's lungs before his mushroom enshrouding. I can't imagine all that tar and nicotine being good for the soil. Or the water table.

At least he wasn't buried in a worm suit.

I want to be creamates and have the ashes placed in one of those biodegradable urns that grow you into a tree

[quote]I want to be creamates

I wouldn’t go near any Starbucks where r41 lives!

Bump for original thread.

So, if I purchase a package of 4 refrigerated portobello mushroom burgers, they may count Luke Perry among their ingredients!?

You’d have to read the side of the package, r44.

A huge hit record, and then Cobain ended up wearing the mushroom suit.

In my branch of Paganry (Brython Recon), the kenning for mushrooms is 'Annwn' (pron. 'Ann-uhn') which is also the word for the Otherworld aka Summerlands aka the realm of eternal Youth and the Home of the Gods to which our animistic spirit returns when our life in this one has finished.

Wearing the mushroom suit is the new bought the farm.

I thought Prince was a vegetarian Jehovah's Witness next thing I know he's wearing the mushroom suit

I want to be buried in mink, Darlings.

True excerpt from Zsa Zsa Gabor's will.

Do I look like a complete idiot?

Trump continued to insult McCain even after the decorated Veteran had put on the mushroom suit

Robin Williams taught the world to laugh, and then he put on the mushroom suit

Can I be buried in a mushroom head suit?

It was not long after the passing of his beloved wife Barbara that former President George H.W. Bush (41) put on the mushroom suit

Canadian-born host Alex Trebek soldiers on at the helm of "Jeopardy!" knowing that at any moment -- even right in the middle of an audio Daily Double -- he may have to put on the mushroom suit.

When acclaimed metafictional master novelist David Foster Wallace decided to put on the mushroom suit, very few of his author friends were surprised.