Cadaver Disposal

Have you thought about what you want to happen with your body when you die? Are you going to donate your organs? Would you prefer to be buried or cremated? Are you worried about the pollution risks from cremation? Perhaps you're going to donate your body to medical science?

I ask because I've been reading (well, listening to the audio book) "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" which is interesting, but perhaps a bit gruesome.

My parents want to be cremated, but I say, "fuck that". I want to be buried as I am in hopes I'll become a zombie bent on revenge.

i want to be the object of affection for a lucky group of necrophiliacs, followed by a cold shower, then zipped over to a hospital room where only my balls will be donated, and just before i'm taken to the crematorium to be beaten, butchered, and torched... all to the tune of Guns & Roses "welcome to the jungle"

That's funny, as I'm having myself cremated for the sole purpose of NOT coming back as a member of the undead.

The zombie life is the only real kind of life. Plus, brains are yummy.

I want to be cremated and have my ashes scattered somewhere special to me. Not sure where yet, I think I need to live a bit more first!

The reason I keep in such good shape is in case someone ever needs to use one of my limbs as a weapon.

Haha, a bit like Bernd Juergen Brandes?

[Edited on Feb 23, 2005 by demetrius_z]

My body and everything attached in it (or on it) is all going with me when I die.

No you cant have my organs to save little billy.

fuck science.

Bury me whole Or face my wrath.

Shot into space in an airtight startrek coffin, duh!

I'll be allowed to fester in the sun for a week or so, then launched by trebuchet into some place very public. Perhaps a sporting event or Yanni concert.

I saw that exhibit in Chicago a few weeks ago. It was amazing.

I plan to donate my organs. I haven't really thought past that. I'm sure I'll pick cremation, since burial plots, caskets, and so on are so expensive. I've already told my family to yank the plug and harvest my organs if I'm ever in that kind of situation.

[Edited on Feb 23, 2005 by Sorcha]

You make two really important points here.

1) Funerals are fantastically expensive. I was amazed at how much an average funeral costs.

2) I want to donate all my organs too, and it's important (at least in the UK) for people to mention their wishes to their relatives so that people know what to say if the worst happens. It's not a nice thing to talk about, but a little bit of preparation can make things easier for the people who survive you.

I have that same book sitting on my bookself. My brother got it for Christmas and told me I should read it cause he thought it was interesting. Small world. Hehe.

Any way, I do not want to be revived. I hate to sound morbid, but I don't wanna lose any chance I've got to get out of this fucked up world. I do not want them to take any of my organs. I'm not a religious/spiritual person, but some thing bothers me about the idea of my organs living on after I'm dead. Think about it. If we do have souls, what happens to it when your heart lives on inside some one else once the rest of you is dead?

Also, I just want to be buried. I wish they could just leave me in the woods to rot, but I'm pretty sure that is illegal. Fuck embalming and all that. I want to go as natural as possible, and I just want to return to the earth the way creation intended.

I want to go down one of those 30 storey construction shoots, and straight into a skip.

Failing that, put me on the London Underground and see if anyone notices before the smell gets beyond acceptable 'tramp-like' levels.

I know... I'm not terribly hi-brow.

My funeral will be as follows, no matter how much it might upset me mum. I will have my chest emptied of organs (anyone who wants one can have it) and then the empty cavity will be filled with fireworks. I will be fired out of a canon high into the sky, where I will explode in a spectacular, yet tasteful, display of pyrotechnics wizardry. Then I will mist down upon all my adoring fans.

Mist? Don't you mean "splatter"?

There's going to have to be some MAJOR wizardry for mum to go for it...

I dunno... maybe they could do one of those smiley faces.

coooool...

If the wizardry is wizardrious enough (and for my funeral it got damn well had better be) then all that will be left of me is a fine red mist.