I hope doctors can use what they can - organs and such. Then cremate me. We have a family plot so ashes can go there.
No “death” for me…its “coldsleep”! I’ll be laughing when I emerge (new body) in 2375!
It doesn’t matter much to me…I’ll be done using it at that point.
It would be nice if my organs could be used, or my body could go to science. But mainly, I just hope that my final disposition is easy and inexpensive for whomever needs to carry it out.
That’s disgusting! Your body would get all dirty and stuff.
As for me, put me in an oven, crackle, crackle, crackle, and sprinkle just a bit over each banana split.
I’m into compression, so why take up more room than necessary.
Donating it to Science…Fiction.
I want to be entombed beneath a giant golden statue of an archangel with gas jet eyes and when you approach it, it bellows “Behold! You approach the resting place of Jophiel! Tremble with fear for if God saw fit to take this man from the Earth, what value could your own life hold?”
Also, I want women to sit beside it wailing and covering themselves with ashes 24/7. This “Dump me in a ditch” nonsense is for people without vision.
By that logic, burning food is just as good for the earth as eating it.
Rotting is a much better transfer of energy to other living things. Cremation removes energy from the food chain. It also uses natural gas .
What I’d like? I’d like my husband to build me a pine box and put me in the back yard along with all my illegally buried cats. Plant some nice flowers on me.
Unless MN finally gets done with its hopes for natural burial before I die I’ll probably end up hanging by my ears in a tub of formaldehyde at a medical school.
I hope I don’t have to hover at the ceiling and hear, “Oh Gawd. Look at this one.”
The wife has already said she’ll get a Hawaiian shirt cozy for my urn, so I’m good.
Rereading and chuckling. I try to be of logical bent but this issue is one where I see the spiritual side creep into most all of us. If we’re truly gone it truly doesn’t matter. We say it. But.
I’m always trying to explain to people what spirituality is to deniers that we are body mind and spirit. I see a few more examples to add to my list.
Doesn’t make us defective in logic. Makes us whole.
I want my organs to go to people who could use them. The rest of my body could go to science and/or medical education.
Donation/research, then cheap cremation. Natural burial would be ok, too. Just please no embalming fluids or fancy casket – what a horror show.
This.
I would like to be turned into a diamond, or several. Then they can be handed out as keepsakes like on a keychain.
Perhaps a little something like this.
If they can use my organs, great - go ahead, then donate what’s left to a medical school to teach the next generation of doctors how we’re put together.
If not, then donate my intact corpse to a body farm. (more about body farms here)
I don’t know. Surprise me.
That’s a pretty good order of operations. Donate bits if anyone can use 'em. If none are needed then reassign me to the cadaver lab. If I’m too messy from tiger bites or paper cuts, then fit me with cement boots and drop me into the ocean.
As for any formal grieving ceremony, I guess I’ll leave that to anyone who’s grieving because such things are for the living. I just don’t want to be there. Crowds make me jumpy and, well, it just wouldn’t be a good scene.
Another for donation, then I want the remains to be composted. Let some good come of me.
Awesome idea, Foxtrot!
WAY better than cremation, which was my first choice.
:::toddling off to revise my will::::