This is not satire, this is not a troll post, I'm being genuinely serious.

I have this really deep fixation about continuing to "exist" until the literal end of time. With a burial or cremation your body ceases to exist pretty quickly, your physical self is gone. But if my entire body got flash frozen immediately after I died and I was placed in some kind of protective coffin and vacuum sealed that would protect my body from the harmful ionizing radiation, that would otherwise cause my body to disintegrate.

I've researched this and it involves using several different materials to protect against all the different radiation but ultimately it involves using opaque materials, which is not what I want because I want "to see the universe" when I'm dead. Hopefully in the future we'll develop a transparent material capable of protecting the body.

Then my coffin would be loaded into a rocket, launched into space, ejected and using a slingshot around Jupiter to send me off into the universe at about 38,000mph, never to return, never to slow down, and virtually guaranteed never to collide with anything.

So how long will I be travelling through the universe for? Well after 28 years I'd be completely outside of the furthest reaches of the solar system. 1.3billion years and I'd exit the Milky way galaxy.

By this time Earth will be literally boiling hot from the suns heat and after a couple billion years the solar system will be consumed by the sun.

At this point I'll essentially be in the void permanently, I'm simply not moving fast enough to catch up the galaxies which are moving away, but I'll still "see" their light.

So how long will I actually be travelling through the universe and how far will I make it at a measly 38,000mph? Considering light travels at 136,000 miles per second? Well I will easily make it past the entire observable universe (93billion light years), which will take me approximately 840trillion years, which is a literal drop in the ocean in terms of how long I will be travelling for.

My coffin with me inside will travel for about 10^34 years, or about 10^29 light years. Basically my little coffin will travel 6quintillion times further than the current observable universe before proton decay finally causes my coffin (and all matter in the universe) to fall apart into fundamental positrons, gamma ray photons and some other stuff. Only then will I finally cease to exist.

I know this sounds like a ridiculous proposition but I think in ~50 years time rocket technology and costs will be dramatically lower and space burials of this nature may be a really viable burial option.

Thank you for reading my dream burial :)