How will they treat your corpse and why?

[Sulkdodds]

Inspired by the organ donation thread. Presuming that your wishes will be taken into account, how do you want your body to be treated after you die? Burial at sea? Viking cremation? Shot out of a cannon?

Please explain your decision - that's the WHY. Things practically achievable in our current time are preferred but not mandatory.

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...myself, I'd like to be buried. Sure, being cremated and turned into a diamond for my children to inherit sounds cool. And floating around in space, frozen stiff, gazing down with dead unblinking eyes across the surface of the world like some furious but impotent god...that's got a real kick to it. Nevertheless, when people visit my grave, I want what's left of me (even though it's not practically me anymore) to still be there in some sens. I want my bits and bobs to sleep, muted under a real weight. And I would very much like it if worms wriggled in my veins and ate my flesh, and if birds came down and ate those worms, and if those birds could flutter to perch in the boughs of trees whose roots were nourished by my body, which would be everywhere, and being of some use to someone, or something. With animal life as the engine my particles would spread out, slowly, satisfied, in the manner of a corpulent old man spreading out in an armchair and closing his eyes with a fat smile.

Sorry, that's a bit sappy. Geddit? Trees? SAPPY?

 

[Eejit]

I'd like to be buried at sea.
I love the ocean and sea life and can't think of a finer resting place for my body, or an ecosystem I'd rather decompose into.

 

[CptStern]

if I can afford it; Launched into deep space

http://www.memorialspaceflights.com/services_voyager.asp

 

[Bob_Marley]

I should like to be stuffed and placed in a glass case for all to see, that the people may never forget me. Ideally placed atop some high building on a rotating platform so that I may cast my gaze across the world and give people an evil stare as they go about thier daly business for all time.

 

[SimpleAssassin]

I'm not bothered as long as people dont eat me. I'm dead what do i care?

 

[Tyguy]

I'm not bothered as long as people dont eat me. I'm dead what do i care?

Why the hell would people eat you? Are people waiting outside your house with steak knives, patiently gazing at their watches?


well, let's start with what I would prefer had I been born into serious money.

I would like to be launched into space attached to a space probe that is traveling at the highest speeds capable by engineers. I think it would be out of this world.

A more reasonable way is cremation...under the space shuttle.

 

[CptStern]

A more reasonable way is cremation...under the space shuttle.

planning on an early death? you should probably hurry as the space shuttle is about to be decommisioned. next year in fact

if you're having trouble offing yourself, I'll gladly give a hand. how do you feel about bludgeoning? what about asphyxiation?

 

[Dekstar]

If I were famous, I'd like to be stuffed and put into the waxwork museum and see how long it'd take people to notice.

That or just buried. Circle of life and all that.

 

[VirusType2]

I'd like to be stuffed, mounted, and propped up in someones den next to wild animal trophy heads.

Nah. I just want my body buried in the dirt. Pine box or nothing at all. Just put me in the dirt. I want a classic tombstone - rounded at the top - with something carved on it deep enough so that it will be readable for thousands of years. I want it to say something clever, but I haven't committed to anything yet.

 

[Tyguy]

with something carved on it deep enough so that it will be readable for thousands of years. I want it to say something clever, but I haven't committed to anything yet.

"I was buried with all my gold"

*enter grave robbers

planning on an early death? you should probably hurry as the space shuttle is about to be decommisioned. next year in fact

if you're having trouble offing yourself, I'll gladly give a hand. how do you feel about bludgeoning? what about asphyxiation?

haha, i thought of that when writing this but my attention span wouldn't permit me to explain

damn you

 

[CptStern]

you know you people who keep saying you'd like to put your body ion display for all to see, well here's your chance:

"All anatomical specimens on display in the BODY WORLDS exhibitions are authentic. They belonged to people who declared during their lifetime that their bodies should be made available after their deaths for the qualification of physicians and the instruction of laypersons."

 

[Glue]

At my funeral I'd just like to be proped up in the corner with a smirk on my face.

 

[Dog--]

I want the least expensive way possible of being get rid of, I don't care if my family can't 'see' me or whatever, I'm not going to cost them up to 10,000 dollars just to bury me in the ground. I'm dead I won't care. Like you pay $5000 for a ****ing wooden box. I wouldn't even ask for a plywood box made by some hobo, it's useless, just dig a hole, and bury my body, don't even get me a suit.

 

[Sheepo]

I don't know, there are so many interesting options that I've never really come to a conclusion.

 

[CptStern]

At my funeral I'd just like to be proped up in the corner with a smirk on my face.

you're zombie don knotts? I say zombie because he died in 2006

 

[Stigmata]

I'm torn between:

- Cremation, with ashes put in a tree
- Cremation, with ashes put in a grow-op so my friends can smoke me
- Full body medical donation

Anything less just wouldn't be right.

 

[lefty]

Thrown in a cardboard box and buried in the backyard, because who gives a ****.

 

[Au-heppa]

73% of Finns still prefer Viking cremation. It's the only honorable way to go according to every tribe. But if I can't afford it I would just have regular cremation.

 

[Rizzo]

If everything goes according to plan, there won't be much to burry.
Jihad.

 

[Dalamari]

Pull out what you can use, burn what's left

 

[unozero]

you know you people who keep saying you'd like to put your body ion display for all to see, well here's your chance:

"All anatomical specimens on display in the BODY WORLDS exhibitions are authentic. They belonged to people who declared during their lifetime that their bodies should be made available after their deaths for the qualification of physicians and the instruction of laypersons."

many of those used were executed Chinese prisoners iirc.

 

[CptStern]

"All whole body plastinates exhibited in Body Worlds come from donors who gave informed consent via a unique body donation program. Only adults over eighteen years of age can sign up to the programme.[35] The pre-natal and infant specimens in the exhibitions are obtained from morphological collections previously held by universities and medical institutions.

Bodies from deceased persons who did not give consent â?? such as deceased hospital patients from Kyrgyzstan[36] and executed prisoners from China â?? have never been used in a Body Worlds exhibition."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_Worlds#Controversies

 

[Shamrock]

I hope they grind my body up.

 

[13LACKBISHOP]

Used as gunpowder in a fireworks display.

 

[Murray]

Frozen and crumbled.

 

[MJ12]

you know you people who keep saying you'd like to put your body ion display for all to see, well here's your chance:

"All anatomical specimens on display in the BODY WORLDS exhibitions are authentic. They belonged to people who declared during their lifetime that their bodies should be made available after their deaths for the qualification of physicians and the instruction of laypersons."

This, I love Body Worlds.

 

[Glue]

you're zombie don knotts? I say zombie because he died in 2006

Don Knotts Zombie? Better contact Valve, new special infected!

 

[ríomhaire]

I don't really know what I'd like. I hope it won't be relevant any time soon though. I should really get an organ doners card but other than that I have no plans for my body otherwise.

 

[PorkPi]

I'd like my body to be used for some cruel, hillarious prank before being buried. Oh, the possibilities...

 

[Schall]

Cremated, then sprinkled over the Mt. Everest Summit.

 

[MiccyNarc]

I'd like my corpse to be such that it's unrecognizable when it's recovered.

 

[theotherguy]

I would like my body donated to science.

Failing that, I'd just like to be dumped into a hole, or cremated.

 

[sinkoman]

I want to be cremated in a camp fire, and then have the remains loaded into a leaf blower...

 

[Krynn72]

But how will you know the table is cold when you're dead?

 

[Raziaar]

I would maybe donate my body to criminal forensic schools for study. That would be a noble use for my body.

Either that or I would be cremated.

 

[Solaris]

I'd like to die with my back against the wall, flag in one hand, gun in the other.

 

[Tyguy]

I would like my body donated to science.

More like science fiction, you ugly turd.



(i don't know what you look like)

 

[Raziaar]

I'd like to die with my back against the wall, flag in one hand, gun in the other.

And the sobbing latina waitress informs the police in a wavering voice, "I only brought him his sopaipillas! He took the little flag and he went loco. Why me god, why? Perdóneme Señor."

 

[VirusType2]

I apologize in advance, I hope this isn't taken offensively, but cremation seems like a terrible idea.

We are carbon based life forms, and the carbon can be used to create new life, returning to the chain of life from which you were formed.

Besides that, why would you want to be turned into carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide? Not to mention contributing to the pollution and greenhouse problem.

Carbon itself burns, combining with oxygen to make CO2 (and sometimes carbon monoxide)

If you burn something completely, the ashes may contain all kinds of other stuff that didn’t burn, and the carbon should burn away.

Carbon monoxide poisoning is the most common type of fatal poisoning in many countries.[4] Carbon monoxide is colorless and odorless, but extremely toxic: it combines with hemoglobin in the blood to produce carboxyhemoglobin (HbCO), which is ineffective for delivering oxygen to the body tissues (a condition known as anoxemia). Concentrations as low as 667 ppm can cause up to 50% of the body's hemoglobin to convert to HbCO.

 

[Jintor]

Donate to medicine and/or science yo.