Green burials
A Swedish company will pulverize your body and bury it in a cornstarch
urn, providing a completely bio-degradable burial. Highly
un-traditional, but if you spent your life concerned about the
environment, why not spend death doing so as well?
Suicide versus murder
More people die by suicide in New York City than are murdered there. A
lot of people like to refer to New York as a dangerous place because of
some of the other people there, but the loneliness seems to often be the
most deadly thing about it.
Space burials
A company in the USA called Memorial Space Flights will now launch your
loved ones cremated remains in to outer space for a fee. You can pay
more to have them orbit the Earth, go to the surface of the Moon, or
launch into deep space (the most expensive option).
American funerals are terrible for the environment
Burials in America deposit 827,060 gallons of embalming
fluid—formaldehyde, methanol, and ethanol—into the soil each year.
Cremations are also pretty bad, pumping dioxins, hydrochloric acid,
sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide into the air.
Not the most dignified way to go...
An average of 600 people every year die of autoerotic asphyxiation. In
case you didn't know because you're, you know, a normal human being,
this means they died while choking themselves in order to achieve an
orgasm. Yeah. Next!
Can't die of 'old age'
No American has officially died of 'old age' since 1951, when the
government eliminated that classification on death certificates. These
folks certainly seem happy about that!
More people die by suicide in New York City than are murdered there. A
lot of people like to refer to New York as a dangerous place because of
some of the other people there, but the loneliness seems to often be the
most deadly thing about it. 
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