Although I'd love to be one of Gunther vonHagens' plastinated wonders in Body Worlds, I think I'd rather have my organs and skin harvested so that my body will physically help someone else. Donating my body to science is also a good option...they do all sorts of useful things with cadavers, like use them for crash-test dummies or for classroom activities. As a side note, Stiff is a great book.
when i die.. i will be dead.. so who cares...
but id prefer to have every body part removed.. and distributed to loved ones and friends accordingly... then zombies can eat my intestines.. and whatever else is left.. please and thank you..
Im going to be cryogenically frozen on my 30th birthday and shot in a random direction to space in a wicked-cool looking capsule with pictorial directions for thawing me out engraved on the lid. From there, Ill leave it in destinys hands.
Maybe Ill get devoured by a black hole, or fly into a distant solar systems sun; or perhaps Ill get picked up by an advanced alien civilization, reanimated and forced to perform in a freak show until I die of natural, sideshowey causes and buried in a shallow grave without a funeral.
I'm sure this is illegal, so I'm going to have to find a small dedicated group of amazingly good friends to do this.
I want to be buried with an acorn in my mouth so that a giant oak tree will grow out of my skull and provide oaky shade and happiness for all those around my tree of death/life.
There is this company that mixes your ashes with concrete and then makes this domes out of them....then they drop them in the ocean close to a reef...and then a reef and everything just start growing around you..
-either that, or just having my limbs put scattered to the four corners of the earth...to serve as a warning to the rest of the Cossacks.
I am donating any of my usable organs so I'm not sure if the body farm will take me.
If not then I want to be cremated and then my ashes to be put into blown glass so that my kids can have a part of me. Or maybe Chihuly can make me into some giant chandelier and I can tour the museums of the world.
JusticeClown said:
I'm sure this is illegal, so I'm going to have to find a small dedicated group of amazingly good friends to do this.
I want to be buried with an acorn in my mouth so that a giant oak tree will grow out of my skull and provide oaky shade and happiness for all those around my tree of death/life.
No, you can have "woodland burials". I don't know what the law is in the states but it should be easy enough to arrange and not illegal at all. I'm not so sure if the acorn actually in the mouth will work, btu the general idea is the same.
fiendish
USA
December 2002
FEB 23, 2005 05:47 AM