I kinda do. Was it not the first thing that set us apart from animals? Realising we were going to die and caring for our deads...

There are degrees. I don't like funerals and I don't like remembering services. I don't go and I do not send flowers (much to the upset of my mother). I positively think that organ donation is good. I'd be rather weary of turning dead people into industrial fertiliser. Being buried below a tree is one thing, processing the dead for industrial reward another.

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He has probably left behind a Facebook page, a large body of twitters and emails and perhaps even a blog or an accumulation of Flickr photos. If you want a moving public ceremony, print out these and lovingly burn them to ashes.

Stuff you left on the internet will be there forever, unless you conveniently left the password handy so someone can track down every post you ever made under every user name you invented and go around deleting things. Every time I log onto a certain game site, the name of my deceased sister-in-law shows up as a team member. Creeps me slightly, depending on the day.

What more memorial does one need than the memories of people who knew you?

I go with Gilles on the industrial processing question. Burn it, rot it in your compost pile, feed it to your pigs if you must, but don't let people start making a profit off human remains. The temptation to increase the raw inputs would be too great for a generation that can't even say no to fast food french fries.

Not-for-profit organizations turning out educational products and putting the proceeds of a sale back into their primary mission, that's much more acceptable. Although it could be argued that supply-side temptations might creep in there too, under the most pious-sounding rationales.