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RE: After An Atheist Dies
July 26, 2017 at 8:27 am
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RE: After An Atheist Dies
July 26, 2017 at 12:51 pm
(July 20, 2017 at 2:16 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: As I have posted previously, I have created a document detailing what I want to happen after my death, the first 3 items are :-
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The doctors should be given the opportunity to use any part of my body for transplants, research etc.
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No unnecessary expense should be incurred for funeral arrangements, the cheapest coffin, body bag etc. for cremation or burial (no point spending good beer money on feeding the worms or the flames – a coffin is expensive firewood!)
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At the funeral there should be no priests, vicars, ministers, shamans, witch doctors or other peddlers of superstitious nonsense.
Just to add, my wife has said she wants her ashes put on top of a firework and blasted into the sky amid a shower of sparks
Sounds like as good a way as any other!
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RE: After An Atheist Dies
July 26, 2017 at 2:09 pm
I want to be used as chum.
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RE: After An Atheist Dies
July 26, 2017 at 2:12 pm
How about embalmed with high tech plastic resin and utilized for your various orifices ??
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RE: After An Atheist Dies
July 26, 2017 at 2:37 pm
(July 26, 2017 at 2:12 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: How about embalmed with high tech plastic resin and utilized for your various orifices ??
Why not, I will be dead so it won't matter to me, if someone gets a bit of fun out of it I say go for it!
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RE: After An Atheist Dies
July 26, 2017 at 2:40 pm
Disturbing to contemplate, that idea is not original with me, and it is based on a real life occurrence . . . .
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RE: After An Atheist Dies
July 26, 2017 at 3:16 pm
Apart from donation, I never did understand why anyone would care about what happened to their own dead body. I mean, you're gonna be dead anyway... why not allow your loved ones who are still alive to do whatever will give them the most closure/peace?
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RE: After An Atheist Dies
July 27, 2017 at 5:52 am
When I die, I want to become a zombie, get out of my casket in the church and scare the bejesus out of everyone!
Now that would be funny!
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RE: After An Atheist Dies
July 27, 2017 at 6:00 am
(July 26, 2017 at 2:12 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: How about embalmed with high tech plastic resin and utilized for your various orifices ??
Plastination by Gunther Von Hagen is the way to go:
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RE: After An Atheist Dies
July 27, 2017 at 10:03 am
(July 19, 2017 at 9:10 am)Die Atheistin Wrote: I was wondering, what if an atheist doesn't want a funeral or other religious practice after he or she (or other pronouns) dies? Is there any nonreligious practice with dead bodies?
I just want a very short graveside service, perhaps with a reading from Thomas Huxley. After that, I want a decent buffet for the guests, nothing too elaborate, but I want them to spend most of their time at the buffet! The burial service should be announced but not the buffet, for obvious reasons.
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