I woke up with just a tinge of a hangover, but have improved markedly. So, no.
Brainzzzzzzz…
mrAru and I want the same thing - body donation followed by cremation. On the odd side, we want to be placed in a TDU can, taken out over an abyssal and dropped. He said he dropped so many TDU cans in his career he figured he could join them, and since I follow my hubs whenever possible, I can get the drop at the same time =)
I thanks to cancer can no longer donate anything for transplant use, but at least they can use me for gross anatomy, or surgery practice or something.
Depends on whether or not I outlive my wife.
She’d want me buried. (After I die, that is - not now, shaddap, you in the peanut gallery! ;)) But I’d like my ashes scattered over a particular section of the Highline Trail in Glacier NP, which would be a challenge if I don’t get cremated. So if I go first, I’ll be buried; if I outlive her, I’ll probably be cremated.
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Can they really harvest organs from an 80 something? At any rate, I wouldn’t mind going to a med school.
I imagine the hide would make for some nice, soft headphone cushions. At the very least your contribution could be delivered to the Soylent family of companies.
I’d hope the fam respects me enough to not give me a traditional burial. Medical cadaver would be good, or tree fertilizer, or just mix me in to the foundation of some building or other.
As has been noted, you don’t get to choose where your body goes after it has been donated. Just as likely you will end up crash testing motorcycle helmets or the effects of new military ammunition.
As a cancer patient I’m not sure how many of my organs are suitable for donation, but my first request is to be donated to a medical school for anatomy lab. Do unto others, and all that jazz
I don’t think I would mind.
If any of my organs are useable, feel free, and cremate the rest. I put it in my will.
My wife asked where I wanted my ashes scattered. I said, “Surprise me.”
Regards,
Shodan
My mother would have been surprised. She wanted to be cremated, but expressed no wishes regarding the disposal of the cremains. One of her favorite places to visit was Colonial Williamsburg. Her cremains are now scattered in the Governor’s Palace Gardens.
As for me, I don’t care. But I’ve made it clear that I do not want my cremains separated. I don’t care if they are tossed off a cliff, but I don’t want person X to get some, person Y to get some, etc. It’s all or nothing.
I’m donating any/all of my body parts to whoever wants them. I really don’t give a rat’s ass what happens to the rest. Grind me up for cat food, for all I care (assuming my cat hasn’t already feasted on me).
I don’t like the idea of my remains taking-up valuable real estate for eternity. After they take whatever is still functional, I will be cremated and scattered in the mountains. No burial for me.
Most fitting zombie thread ever!
My wife’s family has a town named after them in Pennsylvania, and they have their own private burial ground. Not as impressive as it sounds - it is right next to a strip mall. Her father bought the last few plots, which has enough space to hold the ashes of most of the family. So that’s where I’m going.
Quite a few of the monuments in the place are pre-Civil War, so it is interesting.
I wish to have my cremains mixed with ceramic slurry and made into trinkets sold at the Air & Space museum on the Washington Mall. This way I will travel back with thousands of visitors to our nations capital to their homes and continue my desire to see much of the world and our country.
If its gonna be cremation I want an open air bon fire the icinerator is so creepy scary even when dead
Not so much that I’m planning on it as that I imagine my survivors will just bury me by default, possibly granting some donor harvesting if the circumstances allow for it. Left to my druthers I’d go for in-the-earth in a degradable container or shroud but I just know my relatives, they’ll not only go conventional, but before that they’ll pickle the carcas and put it on display while they proclaim their “approved version” of who I was and what I did.
Hell yeah I want to be buried. If for no other reason than most of my enjoyable moments have been cemeteries and so our future robot overlords (or alien visitors) have something to look for/at.
I want to treat my mother right though so she will be happy in Heaven
If you’re serious, I’d recommend figuring out the details now. I believe the only public open-air cremation site in the US is in Crestone, Colorado and even still they only accept locals.
Nope. Body donated to science, science can cremate it and scatter the ashes wherever they please when they’re done.