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Magma

13 (8%)

They don't need anything,they can just rot

20 (12.3%)

Tombs

37 (22.7%)

A massive underground burial chamber

48 (29.4%)

Just a normal burial,nothing special

45 (27.6%)

Total Members Voted: 163

[Medicine Man]

I usually make a burial chamber nowadays.

[Internet Kraken]

I wanted to plunge their coffins into the ocean, but Dwarves are stupid and kept removing floors in a manner that caused them to fall into the ocean along with the coffin. After losing two children to this, I decided it wasn't worth the trouble. So now I just place some coffins in the underground forest and put dwarves in them. Nothing fancy, but it works. Maybe I'll build a graveyard on one of the floors of the tower I'm building.

[Ethereal.Frog]

I give them tombs. Proper tombs. I've also taken to burying soldier dwarves with their weapon weapon and the one that killed them if I'm able to recover it.

[Hokan]

...removing floors in a manner that caused them to fall into the ocean along with the coffin. After losing two children to this, I decided it wasn't worth the trouble....

Why would you ever want to stop?

[Xainiax]

i like creating a large burial tomb under their room and using supports to collapse the room onto their corpses

[Zaerosz]

I only give tombs to dwarves that deserve them (e.g. my militia commander who got his arm bitten off, then stood up and killed the cave crocodile that did it), and when I think my dwarves deserve the best, they get the best. All the rest go in the mass burial chamber.

[Internet Kraken]

...removing floors in a manner that caused them to fall into the ocean along with the coffin. After losing two children to this, I decided it wasn't worth the trouble....

Why would you ever want to stop?

Urist McParent is stricken by melancholy!

[87]

Depending on my resources and workforce i'll usually make a large chamber for the normal dwarves to die in and the important dwarves go into a tomb complex with traps, decorations and engravings.  Those nobles deserve it for all the hard work they do.

[Lord Dakoth]

The spinning Melancholy strikes the Dwarf in the head! It is depressed!
The Dwarf's happiness is shattered!
Urist McDwarf has gone stark raving mad!

...

Gigantic tombs. I once put several wild creatures in my catacombs to give it a labyrinthine theme, but my burial dwarves kept getting killed, creating a kind of snowball-effect.

[kaijyuu]

Yeah, tombs. Haven't made anything fancy yet but the underground labyrinth with giant cave spiders sounds certainly plausible.

[Dorf3000]

The first handful of dead dwarves get regular stone coffins, I don't start building tombs until late in the game and I generally only give them to the nobles that get mad if they don't have one, and military.  If it's a dwarf that died from a failed mood or dodging off a cliff away from a kobold or some other equally dumb death, I have a no-quality stone coffin put somewhere insignificant and then walled off.  If there was a way I could keep their name from claiming a public coffin, I wouldn't even bother with that.

[Firehound]

The more respected dead become dead ends in my fortress sealed in by a statue. Urists, and the occaisional noble, get to exist in a elaborate morgue spanning several well decorated levels. I feel micromanaging to get Urist mcAxecrazy, the sword of pawning, into a grave he deserves is worth it.

On the downside, most of the time, people are buried in poorly made graves. Makes me sad.

[Dbuhos]

Tombs, I respect the dead.

[Urist McTaverish]

Used to be I'd just give em a coffin and be done with it, but now that I have a volcano I'm thinking a burial chamber that drops into the magma pipe.

[Reese]

When I get to the point where I have time to worry about it, I usually create a catacomb- just a medium sized room with a few dead end corridors branching off from it with niches every other square for coffins.