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When you die....

CFLarsen

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...how will you go?

Do you want to be buried? Cremated? Do you want a church service? Burial at sea?

Personally, I want to be buried under a tree. Preferably a big oak tree. With an ocean view. No ceremonies. Dig a hole, dump me, let me decompose ASAP. I thought about cremation, but I think I can contribute more, compost-wise, if the energy does not go up a chimney.

Convert all my belongings to money, and give it to charity. Or the JREF. Except my books, which should be given to someone who will appreciate them as I have. The wine, I assure you, will be finished off long before I kick the bucket.

All this, after science has used whatever they can from my body: Corneas, organs, whatever.

How about you?
 
I will definitely will donate my used carcass to medical study. I sure as hell won't need it. Family can choose to memorialize me (if they choose to!), in any manner they feel fitting.

After the med students are done with my husk, I'm sure it will be too pickled to decompose much, so cremation is probably the way to go.

I have heirs, so my belongings will be theirs to do with as they like. If I've influenced them as hope to, they'll do things with my assets I'd approve of. If they don't, I won't be in a position to care :)
 
I there are enough bit of you left to bury then you life has not been interesting enough.
 
After anything useful has been harvested from my body.....

Wood chipper.

Park it on the Bay Bridge about half way across the Chesapeake and let 'er rip. Might want to put up a sign warning any boats that may be passing underneath though. As many crabs as I've eaten it's only fitting that they get a chance to see what I taste like.
 
Uh_Clem...that's just disturbing.

As for me, let science use whatever bits and pieces they see fit and then chuck what's left into the cold, cold ground along with hot dogs and marshmallows for me to take with into The Eternal Hellfire. Gotta have something to roast, you know.
 
Tricky question.

I think I'd like one of the following :

A) My head to be decapitated after my death, preserved and placed on either a pedestal, on my mantelpiece or in my unit.

B) Get my body preserved and put in a glass case in the corner of my living room or in the lobby.

C) Donate all of my useful organs to worthy recipients or to medical science.

D) Be cremated and have my ashes scattered in a meadow or woodland or by the sea.

E) Donate my belongings to charities and some of my money to charities, the rest to my relatives/friends.

F) Embalm myself tibetan monk style.

G) Don't want a sad funeral, play music by my favourite artists and get pissed out your dome.

H ) I'd like to contact a nice medium to keep in touch with people.
 
Lisa Simpson said:
Uh_Clem...that's just disturbing.

As for me, let science use whatever bits and pieces they see fit and then chuck what's left into the cold, cold ground along with hot dogs and marshmallows for me to take with into The Eternal Hellfire. Gotta have something to roast, you know.
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I don't know, Lisa....it wouldn't look much different than the process that made those hotdogs you're taking with you :)
 
I'm donating this old corpse to medical science. I've got the papers signed and everything.
 
- Organ donor
- Burned

Well, that's it, not much to talk about really. I think that my future kids, friends, relatives, will cry a bit, but I wouldn't know if they did, so...after death, all worried cease.

Oh, and I am really terrified of dying, not because it would mean hell for my or anything like that, but because there would be so much that I hadn't done, so much more to discover. I really want to be alive when warp-drive is invented, when man goes to the stars, when they do a remake of "Lord of the rings" in true 3D.
 
Anathema said:
I don't know, Lisa....it wouldn't look much different than the process that made those hotdogs you're taking with you :)
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"Anyone who appreciates law or sausages shouldn't watch them being made." Nor should someone be chummed over Chesapeake Bay. Yech.
 
Every semester, in my Intro Psych class, I show them a genuine human brain. It is getting a bit ratty by now, and there are questions about it we cannot answer ("do you know whose it is?" is way up there)...so I am donating my brain to the department. The rest, after any organs go...prolly cremated, and there are a couple of particular places where ashes will be dumped.

edited to add...I hope, sometime soon, to put together a video to go with the brain. ("yes, that's my brain; I'm not using it any more, I'm dead. Let me give you a little tour...")
 
CFLarsen said:
...how will you go?

Do you want to be buried? Cremated? Do you want a church service? Burial at sea?
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My instructions specify getting rid of the body in the most financially efficient fashion, and then renting out a nice Irish pub for the night, including paid drivers to and from for the guests. Guinness, Bass, and Harp along with food for all.

Oh, and put my face on the dartboard.
 
If for some reason I kick it before my mom, I'm going to allow her to bury me if it'll make her feel better. She has no problem with donating my guts.
If I outlive her it's donation, then medical science, then burn what's left.
I've always said (half) jokingly that I'd like to be fed to something. Y'know just toss my corpse into the lion habitat at the zoo. Too much trouble to set up though.
Either that or stuff and mount me in a ferocious position like a bear.
 
Uh_Clem said:
After anything useful has been harvested from my body.....

Wood chipper.

Park it on the Bay Bridge about half way across the Chesapeake and let 'er rip. Might want to put up a sign warning any boats that may be passing underneath though. As many crabs as I've eaten it's only fitting that they get a chance to see what I taste like.
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Post-of-the-Week award has now been awarded. LOL.
 
I am not sure of the details but when my mother in law died recently her kids could not arrange for donating her body to science. They said something about "costs". Dunno. As for me, I'm with Claus (intellectually, being buried in the tundra gives me shivvers). A hole and winding sheet seem pretty good to me. Gotta talk to some Orthadox Jews on this one. The Moslems do the same thing but the way they bounced Komeni's body around did not inspire confidence in Abdul's Bargain Funeral Home. It is not that I care particularly, it is just that these people looked like they were having a bit too much fun.

Also, do not forget hero to us all Bob Fosse (who lived in a menage a trois deal with Anne Reinking and Julie Haggarty). He left $10,000 for a party at Tavern on the Green in NY for a party one year after his demise. That sounds cool too. Also the party idea.;)

Finally, I am giving some thought to freeze drying. I have talked it over with the kids. They could lean me in a corner or put me in the back seat of their car. See the photo below. The only problem is the way the body has to be handled....

Very Important.........
Once your pet has passed away,
place him or her into a plastic bag
and into a freezer ASAP.
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We'll see.
 
Perhaps this might interest some of you as an option.
http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/pages/koerperspende.asp
Body Donation for Plastination
Plastination is invented by Dr. Gunther von Hagens.

You get to be preserved for educational purpose.
And your body get to go around the world with the BodyWorld exhibition. Less claustrophobic than being buried or inside an urn.
 
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