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RE: What do you want done with your corpse?
March 10, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Organ donation and then an eco-burial by our local authority. Wrapped in a cotton shroud and buried in a forest setting with no headstone, just GPS record for anyone who's ever interested in where I was buried.
Friends and family can witness, if they want to, with glass of nice red wine and John Lennon's Imagine playing.
My remains will provide food for the grass that will be eaten by the roaming kangaroos, or food for the trees, of which koalas will eat the leaves. Nice thought.
There are many intelligent Christians, no doubt, but an "intellectual Christian", is surely an oxymoron.
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RE: What do you want done with your corpse?
March 10, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Burnt..crushed finely..and snorted by strangers.
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RE: What do you want done with your corpse?
March 10, 2011 at 5:45 pm
Organ donation for medical or scientific use, if possible, is non-nagotiable. But if anything is left it can be used as deemed most appropriate by any relatives who might have strong emotional stake in the manner of disposal of my remains.
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RE: What do you want done with your corpse?
March 10, 2011 at 5:58 pm
(March 10, 2011 at 5:51 pm)Shell B Wrote: (March 10, 2011 at 2:30 pm)theVOID Wrote: Made into fireworks? Is that possible?
Yes.
So your remains are loaded into a firework, or do they form the actual explosive?
There's something undeniably awesome about the thought of my corpse being used to blow something to pieces..
Galileo was a man of science oppressed by the irrational and superstitious. Today, he is used by the irrational and superstitious who claim they are being oppressed by science - Mark Crislip
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RE: What do you want done with your corpse?
March 10, 2011 at 6:46 pm
Ideally, I'd like to be cryogenically preserved moments before I actually die, then fired into the nearest black hole, on the off chance that it actually goes somewhere. Hopefully that somewhere if it exists is a universe where atoms have been unable to form as a result of some intrinsic value of that universe being different from ours, so the universe will be filled only with raw energy. My body and its container will dissolve into this stream of energy and if I am lucky my conciousness might somehow become a part of this new network of energy allowing me to become as a god.
Practically, I'd like all my useful bits taken away and given to someone in need, my skull boiled and mounted on the mantlepiece of a friend or family member and the rest buried under a tree that I have planted. I am still undecided on what type of tree it should be.
"If an injury must be done to a man, it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared" - Niccolo Macchiavelli
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RE: What do you want done with your corpse?
March 10, 2011 at 9:49 pm
Depends on what proves most viable in relation to resources. I am of the opinion that my body will hardly be suitable for anyone else, but sone part or another may be good enough to butcher me for.
And if they don't want to eat me: do with me as we do with all butchered fish. Take me out a good mile and drop the bits for the halibut/whatever.
Seriously, don't waste the time and labour of burrying me alone and with a headstone and coffin. If I must be burried, a mass grave will work perfectly. I'm all for dumping me in the landfill.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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