This is a serious question- My mother passed away two weeks ago and told my father before she passed she wished to be cremated- When discussing this with my sister, she asked me what I wished to have done to my body when I no longer needed it.
To be truthful, I plan on having my bones removed and wired together in the style of a medical skeleton found in classrooms and the such, and laid in a glass coffin. This is what I’ve always wanted, and being well into my adult years, I still do. My sister was not surprized, really (I’ve always been the black sheep), but curious to the legal exceptance of this, which I don’t know.
That’s why I’m here…
-Anyone?!..
I suggest you check out the book “Stiff.” (Sorry, my link failed, and I don’t have time to figure out what went wrong. The book is readily available on Amazon. If someone who’s better at linking than I am could do the honors?)
Basically, the book is about “job opportunities for the dead,” with some gruesome side trips into the disgusting things which supposed scientists have visited upon live animals in the name of research (before I get pitted, you need to know the kinds of experiments I’m talking about. Trust me, they’re disgusting and pointless and are redolent of schoolboy sadism.)
Anyway, I think it will give you a good launching point.
Oh, I almost forgot – if you’ve got the guts for it (pardon the pun), you could always try Plastination
(Yes, I am better at short links, now that you ask…)
Curiously, while there are many laws regarding the disposal of human remains, possessing and selling human bones is perfectly legal:
This is good news. When my friend dies he wants his skull turned into a huge goblet and we all have to chug ale from it at the funeral. (Lined in gold, the whole nine yards.) I think soup bowl for mine. The last one of our group of friends to die in 40 years is going to have a heck of a place setting in the nursing home.