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RE: Death, and then?
October 17, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Anyone who needs my organs can have them. If medical schools want any meat that is left over, they can have it.
(October 17, 2012 at 5:54 pm)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: And since I`m a heavy smoker I think my lungs will one day give perfect learning material.
Not to get preachy, but why not do yourself a favor and quit smoking? Just think how helpful it would be to medical schools to examine your lungs in order study how well they recover after you quit? Believe me, there are no shortage of cadavers of smokers to study.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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RE: Death, and then?
October 18, 2012 at 3:53 am
Upon my death, I want every single viable organ in my body to be available for anyone who needs a transplant. If in death I save peoples' lives then I will live beyond my conscious passing. Whatever is not viable for transplant...give it to science.
After that, drop me in the ground. I do not want a coffin. I have taken much from this world. It is only right that in my death, the world takes all of me that remains.
And I stipulate; attend my funeral smiling or don't attend it at all. I want everyone to remember me just enough to console themselves, and then to move on entirely and let me fade into distant memory pronto.
I must note that funerals are the ultimate proof of the hollowness in the so-called faith believers claim to have. So moved to tears, so saddened by death. Why do they worry when they "know" they will be seeing them again eventually? Maybe it is because they do not...because the truth is something they suppress so much they are convinced they don't think otherwise, but in reality, their subconscious is all too aware of what a lie it is.
Just conjecture, of course. But still.
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RE: Death, and then?
October 18, 2012 at 5:23 am
I agree with the whole '3 steps' already posted but I fail in one respect: I'm a type 1 diabetic and in the UK, my organs wouldn't be accepted for donation. Maybe I should stipulate in my will that my body parts should be sold on the black market..?
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RE: Death, and then?
October 18, 2012 at 6:10 am
(October 18, 2012 at 5:23 am)Ben Davis Wrote: I agree with the whole '3 steps' already posted but I fail in one respect: I'm a type 1 diabetic and in the UK, my organs wouldn't be accepted for donation. Maybe I should stipulate in my will that my body parts should be sold on the black market..?
There's an idea, I could do the same with my fucked body. Lets set up a charity 'duff organs for christians', The slogan could be 'God will make it right.'
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RE: Death, and then?
October 18, 2012 at 6:36 am
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I won't be using it so science is welcome to my body. Any organs that are useful they are welcome to as well.
Family has been briefed (repeatedly) about this.
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RE: Death, and then?
October 18, 2012 at 6:55 am
Nah, take what organs you want, then bury the rest.
Condition on uni's, 3rd year + only (though I'm not sure how much they take after organ donation, as I understood it for the med students it's generally full bodies or no thanks (minus appendixes and tonsils and whatnot =P)). I do know that the allied health guys get to have a look at hardened organs and limbs n stuff, but then, that's in the early years (or at least was for me).
Cremate the rest yeah.
How do you guys feel about face and eye transplants but? You up for donating those?
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RE: Death, and then?
October 18, 2012 at 6:58 am
Face transplants? who'd wanta wear my ugly mug?
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RE: Death, and then?
October 18, 2012 at 8:10 am
In my country, by default, we're all organ donors after death.
We have to explicitly claim we don't want to be donors to be taken from the donor list.
That said, I'm not going to opt out.
Whatever's left after that can just be burned. Around here, you also have to pay a yearly fee to be kept in a cemetery, so I don't want to burden my descendants with those things.
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RE: Death, and then?
October 18, 2012 at 8:11 am
What is really fucked up here in Australia is that on my drivers licence I am a organ donor but they still have to ask permission from the next of kin. WHAT THE FUCK I already gave permission ya dickheads. I do not understand the reasoning for this.
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RE: Death, and then?
October 18, 2012 at 8:13 am
I would like my body to be frozen and preserved in mint condition - to the extent that my estate can afford it. So that, when they finally come up with a technology to bring the dead back to life, I will have an afterlife.
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