WSJ: WDW a favorite spot to scatter ashes

[FettFan]

Ugh. The thought of having my mortal remains burned and tossed anywhere is simply undignified and barbaric. Might as well just leave me out to rot and be eaten by buzzards.

No. I want to be interred in a tomb in a family cemetery. Preferably with a white marble statue of me standing in front of my vault.

 

[FettFan]

YES! Pave the queue to the HM.... 15 year contract . And it costs $5000.00 .

No. Make it cost $999.99

No sense in destroying the HM's theme.

 

[Walt Disney1955]

I don't really know if it matters to me. I'm dead. Maybe my loved ones can't afford a trip to Florida at the time of my death so perhaps I am putting them out. So let's say I do get cremated and make a decision on where to have my ashes distributed. In reality none of it matters, it is purely symbolic and I might like the idea better of having a tombstone so my loved ones can still at least know where I am.

But if I were to decide to have my ashes put somewhere, as much of a WDW fan I am there are so many other places to choose from that would be sentimental to me. Places like where my wife and I first met, where we got engaged, local places I spent with our kids (ball diamond, parks, etc.) I think I would pick them over WDW if only because they are much closer and I don't know how much anyone would like travelling with their father's ashes.

 

[clarabellej]

I saw something about this on television, but not sure what program I was watching.

Possibly Travel Channel and something for Halloween.

I remember when we went in the Marceline to Magic Kingdom tour and saw the inner workings/behind the scenes at HM, they mentioned something about someone wanting to place a photo of a loved one on the table in the Ghost Dining Party scene. Can’t recall the full story, or if something was done clandestinely or if it was permitted.

There are lots of interesting tales about imagineers involved with HM told as well. I mean, the way they are honored.

 

[thomas998]

So how many dead people would it take to fill in the Small World ride.... well 231 cubic inches per gallon of water... Small World has about 500,000 gallons of water or 115,500,000 cubic inches of space.... assume the average adult is about 170 lbs... conversion of dead body to ash is about 1 cubic inch per pound... so you have enough room in Small World to dump 679,411 bodies... Which sounds like a lot of space... but then you have about 2,600,000 people die each year and about 50% are cremated.... so really if we all decided to get dusted on Small World we could shut the ride down for the benefit of mankind in about 6 months... So come one gang lets push for more Small World dustings.

 

[thomas998]

For the next few hours, you can read the article through the google search result for "Disney World’s Big Secret: It’s a Favorite Spot to Scatter Family Ashes" and see the free version.

Edited to add: I found it funny how many commenters on the article thought that it would be the most annoying places to be laid to rest. Classic comments about listening to the IASW song for the rest of eternity.

Maybe it proves there is no such thing as ghosts, because you have to imagine that if you were dumped where you had to hear that song over and over you would become a poltergeist pretty darned quick to seek vengeance on the CM's turning the ride on each day.

 

[Goofyernmost]

So how many dead people would it take to fill in the Small World ride.... well 231 cubic inches per gallon of water... Small World has about 500,000 gallons of water or 115,500,000 cubic inches of space.... assume the average adult is about 170 lbs... conversion of dead body to ash is about 1 cubic inch per pound... so you have enough room in Small World to dump 679,411 bodies... Which sounds like a lot of space... but then you have about 2,600,000 people die each year and about 50% are cremated.... so really if we all decided to get dusted on Small World we could shut the ride down for the benefit of mankind in about 6 months... So come one gang lets push for more Small World dustings.

LOL... there is an example of something that someone spent way to much time thinking about. Talking about clogging up the filters.

 

[Disneyrailfan1996]

So the follow up question that needs to be asked.... When the Disney crew discovers and vacuum's up uncle Joes ashes, where does Disney then dispose of them?

That’s a good question. Obviously as I saw first hand (or so I think), it goes into a vacuum cleaner. But it’s not clear whether there’s a bag in there or not. If there is indeed a disposable vacuum bag inside, it would likely be thrown out in its own trash bag. If there isn’t a bag in the vacuum, then they likely empty the ashes in a trash bag or something else of substance. Then for where it goes after that? I’m guessing it’s disposed separate from the rest of the trash, so it likely wouldn’t go through the trash system. It’s not recycle, so it wouldn’t go in a dumpster either. I’m guessing that the answer may require a web search for similar cases like “where do I dispose human ashes” or “how do you dispose of human ashes” as well as some digging through the search results.

 

[Oddysey]

Ugh. The thought of having my mortal remains burned and tossed anywhere is simply undignified and barbaric. Might as well just leave me out to rot and be eaten by buzzards.

No. I want to be interred in a tomb in a family cemetery. Preferably with a white marble statue of me standing in front of my vault.

You prefer worms gnawing on your corpse instead of buzzards? Makes no difference if you are interred in a tomb because you will be food to something.

There is nothing dignifying in death from an abstract standpoint. In a Country where many cry about inequality, death is the great equalizer for us all. The outcome is undignified and equal no matter your strata.