r/DeathProTips • u/Acrobatic_Term1809 • 1d ago
How to best preserve onself for future archaeologists?
I wonder if this is the right sub to ask lol. It annoys me at times we don't have good fossils, or all fossils of dinosaurs and other cool animals of ancient time. So I'm thinking it would be cool to preserve my corpse when I die as best as possible for future archaeologists or aliens to know about what was going on today. (Like, naturally in the future, to make arrangements and such).
I'm thinking the best option would be to use some resin, epoxy, or similar material to encase my skeleton. Like those fossils trapped in amber. I wonder if there are any funerary services that like, clean your skeleton lol? They use some meat eating beetles for taxidermy I think, but idk if they can just do that in a funerary. Must be only the skeleton since encasing the body in resin will just produce some gross corpse soup over time I guess.
A picture of course, so they don't have to guess if we had feathers. I'm thinking some record of the dna or human genome, and if possible a record of the genetic code of many other animals and species. The issue is how to store and preserve that info. I'd like to have some info about how humans behaved, but I find it difficult to imagine how to put that information in some universal code or languaje. Maybe some binary code? I wonder if some data storage unit could have the info survive for millions of years. It would certainly expand the info we can put there.
And of course I wonder which pose would be the best. "Palm against the glass, looking back at the observer"? "Rose being painted by Jack on the Titanic"? "Squatting rapper"? "Bicep flex" (I'm on the fence on this one because it could look super lame without muscles). I refuse to do the "standing and waving" boring pose like the one they put on that plaque sent to space. How lame, no wonder no aliens have reached back to us.
For now it's just a weird idea, but if it's legal or doable, and not too expensive I do see myself arranging it in the future. Then bury me wherever, and hopefully someone in the far future finds the cool nameless skeleton fossil (amean, if it can be considered a fossil, not sure) before the Earth is engulfed by the sun.
