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WHAT REMAINS...
#21
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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.
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#22
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Donate my organs, cremate the rest. Use the insurance money for a big party.

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#23
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(September 2, 2015 at 8:33 am)Thena323 Wrote: There's a nearby Body farm in Quantico, VA. I wonder if the cadavers used for medical research end up there at some point. Anybody know?

Cadavers used in teaching med students are perfused with an unusually strong dose of preservative.  Putting one out in the woods would not tell you much about the 'average' HR.
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#24
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Thrown in a bin, or used to create a tree or something. Memories of me are more important than actual remains.
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#25
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If my kids don't go in for the plan to have me stuffed and sent to each of their homes for three-month visits each year, I'll go with cremation.
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#26
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Who ever gets you after you've been to my house might be disgusted.

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#27
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(September 2, 2015 at 1:00 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Who ever gets you after you've been to my house might be disgusted.

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Damn it, I just started my lunch.  Sad
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#28
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(September 2, 2015 at 12:57 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: If my kids don't go in for the plan to have me stuffed and sent to each of their homes for three-month visits each year, I'll go with cremation.


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#29
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I am listed as an organ donor, so bits of me might be taken away.  I was going to say cremated and put in an urn which my wife will put in a shrine that she can pick up in Chinatown and put lights on it.  (If I were rich and influential, I might do something like Jeremy Bentham and have myself put in a glass case, and give my money to a university with the requirement that I forever more attend meetings at the highest level, or they don't get the money.)  But your idea of being put in a refrigerator uncovered has a certain appeal to it as well.

Of course, once I am dead, I will not care.  So the above is just a bit of fun.  It it unimportant to me what happens to my body after I am dead.

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
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#30
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I'd like to say donate to science, but I guess I'd go with what my potential future family would want. If they would want me in a cemetery, then I'd say cremate me and leave me in a cemetery. I couldn't care less if they fed me to the sharks though. I hate the idea of someone having to spend thousands of dollars to have a service, dress me up real nice, and put me in a casket that will be in the ground until who knows when..
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-
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