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What will you do with your body?

supercorgi

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supercorgi
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So for those of us to don't give a damn what happens to our bodies after we're dead -- what are you planning to do? For me, dead is dead and what happens to my body doesn't have any greater meaning. I'm an atheist.

Organ donation if anything's still useful is a must for me. I think of donating my body to science (probably med schools) but I really don't like the idea of medical students doing disgusting pranks with my remains. I could opt for cremation with a regular burial I guess. Recently I ran into the topic of "green burials" where they plant your corpse in a forest somewhere and plant a tree on top of it. I sort of like this idea - I'm going to eventually become worm food anyway - why have a steel coffin and embalming to slow the process. I'd like to think that other living creatures are benefiting from my corpse.

So what are other atheists planning to do with their bodies?
 
I answered once before, and my answer has not changed much...
Marquis de Carabas said:
I shall be cremated, except for my skull, which shall be bronzed and made into an urn for my ashes. The skull will then be placed in the open palm of a lifesize black marble statue of myself in my prime, striking a suitably majestic pose (with an eyepatch) on a 4' granite pedestal inside a crystal mausoleum in a verdant glade amongst 100 acres of virgin forest. A small brazier for incense and a cashbox for donations will be maintained. Some suitable curse for grave robbers will be inscribed, in ASCII code, upon the pedestal. Funkadelic will be pumped in through small, inconspicuously placed, but very loud speakers.

Puss, of course, will have his own statue, out back, overgrown with weeds, and made out of plaster of Paris by a quadriplegic teenager on heroin.
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Although I have since decided that, rather than bronzed, my skull shall be platinum-plated.
 
Me? Organ donor, remainder to research. They have already done a lot of disgusting pranks to my body in the name of research while I'm alive - so why should I care when I'm dead?
 
supercorgi said:
So for those of us to don't give a damn what happens to our bodies after we're dead -- what are you planning to do? For me, dead is dead and what happens to my body doesn't have any greater meaning. I'm an atheist.

Organ donation if anything's still useful is a must for me. I think of donating my body to science (probably med schools) but I really don't like the idea of medical students doing disgusting pranks with my remains. I could opt for cremation with a regular burial I guess. Recently I ran into the topic of "green burials" where they plant your corpse in a forest somewhere and plant a tree on top of it. I sort of like this idea - I'm going to eventually become worm food anyway - why have a steel coffin and embalming to slow the process. I'd like to think that other living creatures are benefiting from my corpse.

So what are other atheists planning to do with their bodies?
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The organ donor option sounds pretty good, but by the time I'm finished with mine I doubt that they will have much mileage left in them.

My favorite suggestion is from an old British radio comedy, called Rawlinsons End. [Any other fans out there?]. I can't fully set up the scene as was done in the play, but can at least ask you to imagine the following being said at a party, by a person not unlike Winston Churchill, and after consumption of at least half a bottle of Scotch: "Personally, when I'm dead you can prop me up in the corridor, shove a length of flex up my back passage, and put a light bulb in my mouth. 'After death', 'aftershave'; I don't hold with any of it!" It may also be noted that the character (Sir Henry) kept a pair of "sickle sharp boar tusks" for defacing copies of The Reader's Digest, and a pack of vicious dogs, primarily for chasing Jehova's Witnesses off his property. Basically, a man after my own heart. :)

Regards to all

Scimystic
 
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supercorgi said:
So what are other atheists planning to do with their bodies?
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Two words: funeral pyre. Lighting up the night sky for miles around.

And in the background will be playing the jedi theme. OMFG I get a lump in my throat just thinking about how friggin cool that will be. It almost makes me want to kill myself just to see it.
 
I would like my body to be creamated, made into diamonds from the carbon, placed into pieces of jewelry and given to my 2 daughters. Or 3 daughters should I have another.
Maybe 1 diamond should go to my wife. She'll easily outlive me (I'm a smoker).
That's gonna be a lotta diamonds to make. Better start eating more.:D
 
I'm thinking donate my organs and useful parts, then just throw my body into the woods for the wolves, I won't be there for it, plus the wolves need love too. As far a wake goes, I want everyone I knew to throw a huge shindig and use my coffin as the open bar.
 
uncy said:
I'm thinking donate my organs and useful parts, then just throw my body into the woods for the wolves, I won't be there for it, plus the wolves need love too. As far a wake goes, I want everyone I knew to throw a huge shindig and use my coffin as the open bar.
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Could I take the coffin afterwards? I hear they're expensive and I bet I could make a few bucks on ebay w/ it.:)
Does your soul come w/ it?
 
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I have no idea, and I don't care. Ground me up and feed me to the pigs for all I care, I'll be dead!
 
Just Me said:
Could I take the coffin afterwards? I hear they're expensive and I bet I could make a few bucks on ebay w/ it.:)
Does your soul come w/ it?
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If my family doesn't need the extra cash at the end of the day it's all yours, as far as my soul, I'm not entirely sure I have one, I mean I was born of cesarean section so I may not have one. Plus I’m pretty sure I got drunk one night and sold it to Satan for a bag of Spicy Nacho Doritos, and I’d probably do it again.
 
I want to be shot into the sun. Either that, or on a trajectory to leave the solar system.

Wake is a different story. There ought to be a bar..and a fireplace....


Hell, I want to be there when they read my will.....(evil grin)
 
uncy said:
Plus I’m pretty sure I got drunk one night and sold it to Satan for a bag of Spicy Nacho Doritos, and I’d probably do it again.
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I understand. Was it verbal or written out?
Plus you could always be Saved, then sign it over to me. I'll give you some funions. I'm serious.
 
Just Me said:
I understand. Was it verbal or written out?
Plus you could always be Saved, then sign it over to me. I'll give you some funions. I'm serious.
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Im not sure, but I do remember having a rather large stab wound on my left arm, so I either signed in blood, shades of Dr. Faustus, or I was accidentaly stabed. Though I'm now considering your offer, I mean, Funions are awsome...
 
I really don't care. Except I don't want to be buried and use up space that could be used by living people who'd actually find it useful. And I don't think I want to be burned, just because it would probably polute, create greenhouse gasses and use up fuel.

I did read once about a 'Sky burial' (I think) where they chop your corpse up into pieces and leave it on a mountain for the birds - I think I'd like that.
 
I'd like to be resurrected as a zombie, then start following John Edwards around telling him various letter. "R", I'd say. "Sounds like R. Or a G". Occasionally I'd point to my chest.

Organ donation is an option.
 
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