Sylvia Fowles knows for certain she doesn’t want to be buried.
“I’ve thought about it plenty of times, even before I started working at a funeral home. I would love to be cremated, if my kids wanted, and if they don’t I would like to donate my body to science.”
Beyond that, the WNBA star, who is retiring after this season having amassed one of the most decorated résumés in basketball history, hasn’t made too many plans for what comes next. Retirement is sometimes thought of as the death of an athlete, but Fowles, who has been working toward a funeral service degree since 2015, has a clear path for life after basketball—it just might happen to include death.
