After my appendix was removed, the surgeon brought it to my room in a milk bottle - I just couldn’t work up any feelings of attachment for it.
But I do have a friend who cut his little finger off while cleaning a deer - he had it mounted.
first off, turpentine, you are wierd. i like that in a paint thinner. maybe the reason that they aren’t dying is the fact that they can see all their old friend encased in a static shell of terror™. maybe they’re too scared to die now…
my understanding on lost ‘parts’ is that there are certain health regulations that prevent people from keeping them. i’ve known a few doctors, and this always seems to crop up in conversation. things like teeth, kidney stones, and the like are fairly safe, but there something about fingers, hands, etc, that makes them potentially dangerous. i think most states and hospitals have certain biohazard procedures they like to follow.
this isn’t to say these things don’t happen, but i think it probably depends on the means of removal and the health of the individual.
How inconvenient.
Dammit inoci! You beat me to it (knew I shouldn’t have spent so long researching the trade marks!)
Turps (can I call you turps? Oh well, too late now!) - try making friends with an 8-10 year old - they always have dead fish, we’d buy a replacement, put it in the tank & within 2 days, they’d be belly up. We gave up on funerals after a while, just put them in the bin (besides, not enough empty matchboxes in time!)
I have some puppy milkteeth that my dog shed recently - he’s all grown up now sniff, but I don’t think I’d want a spare bit of me hanging around. However you do hear about hospitals keeping them for research (or student doctor pranks - the one I’m thinking of should be a UL, but I have a bad feeling that it isn’t!) when they say they have disposed of them hygienically (not to mention maybe copyrighting your dna…), so I guess I would want it cremating separately & the ashes returning. Then if & when I decide where I want scattering/burying, they could go there in advance.
Sunshine - how did you manage to get your sig samll like that?
Sorry about the hijack…I was sensible earlier … that sounds even worse sigh
I haven’t lost any parts of my body really but if I were to lose a leg or an arm or something large like that I would probably have it cremated and keep the urn in the house somewhere. My grandma kept her kidney stones after her surgery. I thought that was kind of weird!
I did keep the plastibell from my son’s circumcision. I thought it would be kind of funny to show it to him when he’s 20 years old and show him how tiny his ding dong was when he was a baby. The thing doesn’t even fit on my pinky! Ah, the memories.
We have a wooden leg that the previous owner of one of our boats left on board - we asked, but he didn’t want it back… but that’s not the question.
I really don’t want to keep such parts - they can go into whatever ether my gallbladder, appendix, and assorted girl parts went after surgery. If I can’t use it any longer, I really don’t need it cluttering up my life.
CalMeacham:
I don’t think that was it. I distinctly remember him being an American. Unfortunately I can’t find the book that it’s in. It seems to have disappeared on me. Or it may have been him and I am just misremembering. Thanks for trying to say who it was though.
Oh and I forgot to answer the OP Um… I’d just have the hospital dispose of it. I mean eeew I already have enough stuff laying around I don’t need to add a body part to it!
hijack
In your sig, do either a super- or subscript. It is brackets around either sup (which makes it small and slightly above regular size print) like so: [sup] superscript[/sup] or brackets around sub (which makes it small and slightly below regular size print) like so: [sub]subscript[/sub]
Clear as mud? If not, check in About This Message Board. It also tells how to underline, bold, italicize, etc.
/hijack
Trey Anastasio, guitarist for my favorite band, Phish, was once involved in a prank war with (I think) his future lyricist, Tom Marshall. At one point, he stole a hand and heart from a med school cadaver and mailed it to Tom with a note saying, “I’ve got to hand it to you, you’ve got a lot of heart.”
I have two of my cat’s whiskers. She died Tuesday, so I’m really glad I had them.
It’s like a lock of hair, or something…
Yo. I’m getting two wisdom teeth out sometime in the next few months. This thread makes me want to keep them and make a necklace or something. Creepy. Really creepy.
~~Baloo
P.S.: I’d credit the quote, but I can’t for the life of me recall where I heard it.
nope, I liked your mud you should sell it for facepacks! Seriously though, thanks.
AETBOND - I’ve got sharks’ tooth earings, I guess human teeth isn’t much different (as long as you can prove that they are yours & there isn’t a serial killer with that sig in your area…). Guess you’re not worried about people stealing them & using them for voodoo dolls either…(sorry too much x-files)
I listened to a radio show where many women kept their placenta’s after childbirth in the freezer then at a later stage fry it up and eat it. Is this cannibalism or just like biting your nails