WHAT REMAINS...

[MTL]

I always signed my organ-donor card UNTIL I read a few horror stories about people who were not actually doomed, just yet,
but who sued the doctors...whom they claim they overheard planning to "play god" and "harvest" their organs, anyway
...effectively saving several lives, instead of saving the life of the donor, which was still possible.

I can believe it, and I'd be more than willing to be an organ-donor if I knew the system wasn't abused,
but I'm not quite willing to offer to kill myself so that other people can live with all my organs.


I also like the idea of a green burial or cremation....there's no real purpose in pumping my corpse full of toxic formaldehyde
to "preserve" it, only to drop it into the ground inside a metal box,
making it far more difficult for nature to reclaim it

.....UNLESS my death was in any way suspicious...
...then by all means, keep me on ice until you get it resolved.


I would still want to be exsanguinated, though....I don't want ANY chance of "waking up" inside a tomb.

I mean, yeah, I'm a goth and everything...but I'm not THAT goth.

I also find the idea of ridiculously expensive funerals and interments to be absurd and wasteful, on one hand;

however, once again, I'm a goth....I love beautiful old cemeteries,
and I like the idea of leaving a beautiful grave marker to lichen over time.
Pity they're so exorbitantly expensive.


I've also considering arranging for my remains to never be found, and skip the funeral and obituary altogether.