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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

[Dearnen]

I usually create simple catacombs for the commoners - corridors with little alcoves, sometimes with doors, on the sides with a single coffin in each.  Walls are smoothed and sometimes engraved, and a single statue is put at the end of corridor.  Nobles and such will get more elaborate tombs as befitting their status.

[kaijyuu]

Too bad we can't control engravings. I'd be cool making tombs with engravings depicting the dwarf's life, accomplishments, and death.

[Urist McTaverish]

Too bad we can't control engravings. I'd be cool making tombs with engravings depicting the dwarf's life, accomplishments, and death.

This is a masterwork engraving of a tentacle beast and a Dwarf.  The tentacle beast is performing a depraved act on the Dwarf.  The dwarf is screaming.

[rezon]

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.

Remember to seal spouse and pets in tomb.. I gotta start doing that.

[The Yellow Peril]

I usually have worked up a blood-curdling hate of my normal hauler dwarves, so if one of those dies they end up down the magma chute with all my other junk.

I'll have a crypt, usually on the last floor, whith pre-built tombs assigned to each of my military dwarves, though. If the dwarf dies in a particularly heroic way, they will be buried. For example, one dwarf died in a cave-in trap I made, but said cave-in trap also caught a Glacier Titan in a cage, so to commend the dwarves sacrafice, he was buried properly.

One thing that has always annoyed me is how you can't bury dwarf body parts if they're still alive. I had a badass axeman who got his right arm bitten off by some horrible cavern creature, and I felt sort of bad just leaving his arm lying on the floor. The loss of an arm didn't seem to affect his fighting abilities in future battles, however.

[LordSlowpoke]

A special tomb if they died in battle, atom-smash for the rest. Unless I liked them, or they pulled off a feat of badass that earned them a tomb.

[Encased in burning magma]

Epic dwarves get encased in my obsidian fortifications.

Haulers go "plitch" in the magma.

Nobles are usually not recoverable.

[thijser]

If I have magma then they will be trown into it so they can join armok. If I do not have magma (yet) they are trown down a hole in the ground so they can get close to armok. Sometimes I recover the bodies after I get magma.

[Karnewarrior]

I use a mix. a small side corridor for the common dwarves, with a handful of 3x3 rooms for notable dwarves, and then some elaborate tombs for nobles.

[A-chana]

I just build a hallway and put the coffins in there. Special dwarves, like useful nobles and titled dwarves, get a tomb prepared. Said tomb is covered in engravings and has the best coffins and cabinets I can get, and if there's a couple that's special, I'll put their tombs next to each other and have a door in-between. The dwarves with the prepared resting places usually have a grand or royal tomb. Useless nobles might get a tomb, but it won't be nearly as grand as those of the titled dwarves, with a possible exception of the monarch (mainly to keep said monarch from killing him/herself in a fit). If they get themselves killed before I can bother with a tomb, they'll end up in the hallway with the regular dwarves.

[Lawec]

On my above ground fort I dig several 1x1 channels into the ground, I then mine out an extra square down in the ground where I put the coffins. Next to the downward ramp I place a statue, and when a dwarf dies and is put into his/her coffin, I seal the grave with some material they liked. Unless it was a berserk dwarf, then I seal it with microcline.

[Agamemnon]

Catacombs/Communitytomb

That is, if the body is recoverable. If I know the cause of death, I leave a 'N'ote at the coffin. Most of them read: stupidity

[necrodoom]

my first (and only death, for now) was an idiot dwarf refusing to destroy the wall from a spot that the cave in wont land down on him self, at the end i gave up and he suicides so i throw him into the magma pipe and for some wierd reason i instantly get a 24 immigrant group coming to my fort.

[Thadius]

I usually make a massive hall for dwarven dead that don't deserve their own tombs.  Which is half the fort, really.  The Original Seven usually get very nice tombs, their rooms sealed up afterwards, all that jazz.  It's like a museum, but they're still living in it.  For a while, anyways.

[The_Kakaze]

I make a sort of mausoleum for my dwarves.  The vast majority of dead get nothing but a coffin that is placed in a niche in the wall, but the important dead (soldiers, legendary workers, nobles) get tombs that I place at intersections in the mausoleum.  This usually leads to the important dead being placed deep within the catacombs.

I like to devote a whole layer to burial.  If I have enough time, I like to assign every dwarf a coffin so I know exactly where they are going.  Early on, when the migrants are coming in faster than I can make beds, though, I just place a bunch of community graves and then reassign them as I make more coffins.