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Where ever they had chosen and if they didn't where ever a loved one may have chosen. Someone without a specific faith will still want to be mourned by those that loved them in life.

Funeral parlors, I guess. Do you think that's part of a package? The "atheist package". Like "Best bargains for the godless!"

At funeral homes.

Most times, athiests have services of remembrance at the funeral home. But, because doing something with the body seems not to be as important to them as for Christians who pray over the body before burial etc, athiests may have a memorial service at a later time and in a much nicer place. I've attended a few memorial services for athiest friends that were quite beautiful at the Chicago Cultural Center, the Field Museum, and the Botanical Gardens. They were nice services celebrating the life of the departed.

Funeral homes, a lot of the time. With cremation, though, you can have a memorial service just about anywhere that's meaningful to the person who passed. Somewhere they might want their ashes spread, maybe.

At the rock'n roll hall of fame

jews have funerals at the burial sites so maybe athiests would too.

Wherever they feel best expresses their life's journey. Even many christians are not having church funerals now- instead they have a private service at the crematorium/cemetery and have a huge Thanksgiving service at the church afterwards.

I've acctually thought about this quite a bit. I don't know what I want to do with my body when I die. I imagine having some sort of memorial, so that my peeps can say their last goodbye, and remember me. After that, I think donating some organs to science, and some to dying people.

Unitarians will give you a good send-off without abusing or misrepresenting your secularism.

Anything and anywhere will do, as long as it doesn't get smelly, or people trip over my bones sticking out of the ground. But I prefer a cremation over a funeral. My ashes may be spread out in some nice environment, or over sea or something like that. But in the end I don't care so much, I'm dead after all.

i don't know, but i'm being stuffed and left on the couch....or mummified.

At Funeral homes.

They're held where your survivors want to hold the funeral. Case in point: my nearly atheist mother-in-law got not only a church funeral, but a full-blown Christian revival band complete with someone playing a saw (sounds kinda like a theremin).

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Then there's the everpopular outdoor funeral, the at-home funeral, etc. All you really need is some space.

Funeral homes, I'd imagine. Maybe a nice big celebration of their life, what they did, who they were and all the stuff that normaly goes with it - just no speaking of going to Heaven and what not, no prayer or anything.

Speaking for myself I couldn't care less. I have asked to be stuck out for the refuse collection but apparently that is illegal dangnammit... I will be long gone by then.

Why would atheists have funerals if they don't believe in Heaven?

Friends of mine had a totally non religious gathering in the small chapel at the Cemetary. Others do the same thing at a crematorium.

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Why would they need a funeral? Hell, it makes no difference at that point as far as they are concerned, it is over. A dumpster or the bottom of a landfill or dumped over a boat at sea to feed the sharks is all relative, right? If they have no reason for burial or last rights they have no reason for a funeral.

I think mostly they just go to the graveyard and everyone says stuff about the person before they put the casket it.

I was going to give the obvious answer that many have said "Funeral Homes" but since this question is a lame attempt to poke fun at atheist in a sick way I'll just ignor it.

Wherever will make my family the most comfortable. I won't be in any state to care.

well after the docs cut me open and take what they can to save as many lives as possible, a take the rest for science, wherever my mum chooses. it wont matter to me as i'll be gone, so if she wants it at a church, i dont mind.

Pubs!

well once they(the doc's) have used what ever they can to transplant into others ...whats left is 'up in smoke':)... no service ...no funeral...but a bloody good wake !

Public halls, cemeteries. These ceremonies will be organized from funeral directors. Here some information about this: 1) "I'm sure many atheists, including myself, would prefer a non-religious funeral. Thankfully, as above, the BHA and other organisations provide caring celebrants who conduct non-religious ceremonies. Why allow the church to have the last laugh?" Source: http://www.atheistresource.co.uk/atheistweddings.html (many references there) 2) "Because death in America is so tightly interwoven with religious ritual and political regulation, it is very difficult for an Atheist to satisfactorily sidestep their controls. Obviously, Atheists, are not interested in having prayers said over their corpses or some kind of processional cemetery burial (particularly to lie among all those theists!). But the problems go much further than this. As an American Atheist I believe that I am entitled to control my death as I am entitled to control my life - that is part of my right to individual freedom. But the religions do not agree that we have the right to control our deaths, and neither do our political regulating institutions whose members are usually more-or-less Christian. It is here that the really serious and complex problems and conflicts begin for the Atheist." "The dying and death processes will probably not take place as Atheists would like them to, unless they are very careful and have a lot of determined support. State laws, hospital regulations, doctor's fears about prosecution, religio-legal intervention, geographical and political factors, a family's grief, religious beliefs and superstitions, priests looking for a "soul" to save, and the speed at which the body disposal industry moves after contact by their network of informers; all are against us." Source and further information: http://www.atheists.org/comingout/dying.html 3) here an interesting article about good manners to be used with atheists: "When at an atheist or humanist's funeral, don't say things like "Now (s)he's with god", or "now (s)he's in a better place", or "it was his/her time to go". Don't expect hymns, prayers, psalms, or organ music at atheist weddings or funerals." http://rthoughtsrfree.org/sfwcode.htm 4) Further information: http://www.archivum.info/sci.skeptic/2006-05/msg00148.html http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=63294

If they were baptised.And taught about religion made irrational choices God preaches forgive and forget, they should still have church funerals.

I don't plan on being in a funeral. I want to be cremated, then dumped somewhere. Anywhere. Just not in a ritualistic, superstitious manner.

Um, I've only been to one funeral in a church, the rest are in private funeral homes. The only one in a church was for my grandpa who was Catholic.

I have told my family to dump my body in the cheapest legal way possible. Sell it to a med school, toss it in a dumpster... I no longer care. Only religions ask that people already burdened by the loss of a loved one plan an event and spend wads of money.

Dungeons.