# How Come You Never See Female Pallbearers?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-you-never-see-female-pallbearers/196040
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 18, 2003, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-you-never-see-female-pallbearers/196040 "2003-08-18T20:31:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Agback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agback)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2003, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-you-never-see-female-pallbearers/196040/21 "2003-08-19T14:10:29Z")
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> \*Originally posted by t-keela \*
> **The idea of a rotting wooden box…the visual image of your beloved being consumed by scavengers etc.**
Well, it takes all kinds, I guess. I find the idea of preserving and storing corpses much more gruesome. And the idea of my family wasting their hard-earned on a corpse when they could be putting it into the children’s education seems utterly grotesque.
Regards,
Agback
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### Author:  [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-you-never-see-female-pallbearers/196040/22 "2003-08-19T15:14:31Z")
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> \*Originally posted by t-keela \*
> \*\*The idea of a rotting wooden box…the visual image of your beloved being consumed by scavengers etc.
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> But for just a couple of more hundred $$$…yadda, yadda, you get the pitch? \*\*
The sad part with that is that I’d far prefer to rot in a wodden box then, uh, liquify and ripen in a sealed container.
And you thought those leftovers you forgot about in the closed tupperware container in the back of the fridge was scary!
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### Author:  [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-you-never-see-female-pallbearers/196040/23 "2003-08-19T19:25:05Z")
AFAIC they can burn my ass and be done with it. Hell, even better, just donate my entire body to medical research and organ donations. I think I’ll check into that. See if the UT Medical researc center would be willing to pay for memorial services and a marker for the family cemetery in exchange for a cadaver w/ all organs available for transplant immediately upon my demise. I live about two minutes from one of their hospitals.
I wonder what a cadaver would bring $$$ in the open free market /auction whatever.
I’m in perfect health at 41y/o…never even been sick, not since I was a kid. Eyes are perfect, all internal organs…etc. I know that when I do pass on (in another 40 years or so) maybe? That won’t be the case but odds are there will still be many usable parts available.
Hmmm, could be a decent inheritance for the grandkids. Anybody need a good O+ kidney…? (just kidding) IIRC e-bay shut down a seller for that. Seems like the bids were in the millions $$$
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