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Lilith

11-01-2005, 07:05 PM

So I discussed rotting (decomposition) with my babies today and naturally the topic turned to rotting people. I love these kids :D

What's the plan for your body once you cease using it?

Aqua

11-01-2005, 07:15 PM

I'm thinking standard old boring burial.

LixyChick

11-01-2005, 07:27 PM

Glyndwr

11-01-2005, 07:34 PM

Strangely enough I have already discussed this with my kids and they know exactly where to scatter my ashes after the cremation. After seeing the acrimony tending a grave can cause in several families I was determined that there would be no reason for my kids to fall out on my account after I've gone.

Steph

11-01-2005, 07:45 PM

I've also donated everything to medical science and/or organ donation.

I've read that the most environmentally friendly way to rid oneself of any remains would be to bury the body under a tree in a cardboard box. If I can do that & it is the most environmentally-friendly way, I'll go that route.

wyndhy

11-01-2005, 07:46 PM

organ donor. the rest can get cast to the four winds. except my scull, i have someone who wants to keep it...alas poor wyndhy, i knew her well.

rabbit

11-01-2005, 08:40 PM

Well, after big ass New Orleans style send off I expect my kin to throw, just plant me in the ground and call it a day.

Besides, it's only my body...I won't be there anyway. ;)

Fangtasia

11-01-2005, 08:44 PM

I aint goin'

bare4you

11-01-2005, 10:17 PM

If there are any good parts left, those left behind that need them can have what's needed. Once they finish yanking out what they need, cremation is my choice for what is left. The best part of me will have left before they cut me open anyhow.

dicksbro

11-01-2005, 10:34 PM

Donate what's usable, then bury me. We've got the lots and vaults ... just need the casket to complete the physical preps.

maddy

11-01-2005, 11:08 PM

I'm surprised by the number of cremation responses... Donor and Burial here.

osuche

11-02-2005, 12:51 AM

Organ donor here too. After that, I think cremation....although if Mr Osuche felt strongly I'd do whatever he needed.

Funerals and burials are for the living, and not the dead IMHO.

Oldfart

11-02-2005, 01:52 AM

Slash and flash.

My brother is in a "hole in the wall" a long way from family, rarely visited and a source of discomfort for my father.

Drop the ashes from a DC3 or Catalina, just to see if I'll still scream as I drop.

Damn this experimental phase I'm locked in.

WildIrish

11-02-2005, 07:05 AM

I'm really torn between burial and cremation. I don't know what the plans are. Maybe nobody will discover the body for a long time and the cats will have taken care of it.

Pita

11-02-2005, 07:49 AM

I will also donate anything anyone wants to use. I like the cardboard box idea because it's cheap and I don't believe in having my loved ones spend their money to put me in the ground.

Lilith

11-02-2005, 05:51 PM

I'm really torn between burial and cremation. I don't know what the plans are. Maybe nobody will discover the body for a long time and the cats will have taken care of it.

You just want someone to say that you consumed pussy your whole life and that your disposal only seemed appropriate.

WildIrish

11-03-2005, 07:37 AM

You just want someone to say that you consumed pussy your whole life and that your disposal only seemed appropriate.

OMG!!! The irony! Only you would see that!

wyndhy's right! You're twisted!

Loulabelle

11-03-2005, 07:43 AM

Do with me as you NEED!

What I mean is...I am an organ donor. Take EVERYTHING...EVERYTHING viable and useful and spread it about for those who are in need. If I am left with just rotting marrow (or something to that effect)...burn me up and send the ashes to the winds of the day. If it ain't windy and I end up at your feet...RUN! LOL...Just kidding! If that happens...walk away and smile fore I am happy to land in a place you chose for me!

^^^ *smiles at the thought*

I am so with you on this one.

I know some people say 'they can have anything but my eyes' but I don't care about those...I'm not going to need them where I'm going and if someone else does, let 'em have them.

I am incredibly squeamish and tend to pass out when I have to give a blood sample, so I don't think I could ever cope with giving blood. I feel horribly guilty about this, so the least I can do is give my body when I'm dead. I won't be squeamish then!

dm383

11-03-2005, 08:25 AM

I already donate blood (well, plasma - seems mine has something in it that makes it good - go figure) and I signed up for organ donation - IF there's anything worth having by then! LOL!

After that, as oldfart put it "slash and flash" and dropped from a 'plane seems appropriate - I only screamed the first time, so I don't figure on it happening this time! :)

DM

Teddy Bear

11-03-2005, 08:31 AM

As simple as possible. No wake. Just a few words said where ever they decide to plant whats left of me. In the cheapest box there is. And NO visiting the gravesite and wasting money on flowers!! You wanna give me flowers, give em to me now. Then everybody go out to eat and laugh and have fun!!

Casperr

11-03-2005, 09:12 AM

See, I'm something of an extrovert.

And I've always been partial to the Vikings. Take any organs as are useable, and then load me onto a real flash boat. Send me off into the see..... and have a hot chick shoot a flaming arrow onto it and watch as it erupts in flame.....

YEAH! That's the way ta' go!!

'cept probably not legal, and the paperwork for getting a flaming-arrow-license probably wouldn't be worth it.

So dispose of me cheaply, environmentally, and in any way that makes the peeps still alive happy.
CasperTG.

PS Please make sure I die AFTER getting laid. Spent my whole life frustrated, don't want that in the afterlife as well....

WildIrish

11-03-2005, 09:26 AM

^^^ Exactly why I don't fish. It's my luck to have someone miss the intended target and torch ME while I'm trying to reel in a whopper that eventually would've been revealed as a discarded tire had I not been given an impromptu viking sendoff!

Winston77

11-03-2005, 10:03 AM

Just feed me to the wolves

gekkogecko

11-03-2005, 11:15 AM

I've already signed up for organ donation. Though I'm not sure what will be useable after I'm done with the things.

AFter that, I'm looking at cremation in the mot environmentally-friendly manner possible. Our society, as usual, has some fucked-up laws about that, as well. Then, if they can, the ashes should be used as compost for a tree.

lakritze

11-03-2005, 11:40 AM

WildIrish

11-03-2005, 04:02 PM

Walk me down in a shoebox to the end of the Santa Monica pier and scatter the ashes.That is until I saw the last epasode of 6 Feet Under. A geen burial sounds like the way to go. I agree with Steph,but who needs the cardboard box?

I, as the person doing the shovelling, need that cardboard box! Ain't no way I'm gonna hold it together while I shovel dirt on top of a loved one.

Unless it's after a fight and I'm burying her in the back yard, but even then...it'll be in the middle of the night. :grin:

scotzoidman

11-03-2005, 05:04 PM

Woke up this morning Put on my slippers
Walked in the kitchen and died
And oh what a feeling!
When my soul Went thru the ceiling
And on up into heaven I did ride
When I got there they did say
John, it happened this way
You slipped upon the floor And hit your head
And all the angels say Just before you passed away
These were the very last words That you said:

Please don't bury me Down in that cold cold ground
No, I'd druther have 'em cut me up And pass me all around
Throw my brain in a hurricane And the blind can have my eyes
And the deaf can take both of my ears If they don't mind the size

Give my stomach to Milwaukee If they run out of beer
Put my socks in a cedar box Just get 'em out of here
Venus de Milo can have my arms Look out! I've got your nose
Sell my heart to the junkman And give my love to Rose

Give my feet to the footloose Careless, fancy free
Give my knees to the needy Don't pull that stuff on me
Hand me down my walking cane It's a sin to tell a lie
Send my mouth way down south And kiss my ass goodbye

Oldfart

11-03-2005, 05:54 PM

LOL

flutelady

11-03-2005, 06:00 PM

After science and/or Ripley's Believe It Or Not takes what they want, just put the rest of me in a hefty bag and plant me. Whatever's cheapest is what I want. I don't want anyone stressing over how to afford it all. My spirit will be long gone, so why fuss?

Lilith

11-03-2005, 08:10 PM

I was wondering who would post the Prine ;)

scotzoidman

11-04-2005, 12:09 PM

I was wondering who would post the Prine ;)
& you didn't think it would be me?!?

PantyFanatic

11-04-2005, 02:20 PM

I’m coming to visit (or haunt :D) all the Pixies. At least Bibi and Steph and all the Pixies near a coastline.:) My ashes are to be scattered around a remote pond that is a distant tributary to the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie. That should start my world tour. :wave:

A 48cm, brass strake with my epitaph has been made and will serve as a marker and location of memory for the two generations that will have an awareness of my entity. It could also give some future anthropologist confused pause in a few centuries or millennium. :rofl:

Lilith

11-04-2005, 05:10 PM

hmmm...brass???...I'd have thought wooden :D

nicole2309

11-04-2005, 07:04 PM

Personally, I try to talk people into organ donation almost everyday, and it's great to see that so many of you want to do that ... but I've seen the organ harvests, tissue harvests, and when they get the lens. After watching all of it, I formed some really strong opinions about what they are allowed to take of mine, and what they can't touch. After they've everything I'll let em get, then just throw me in a hole. Just make sure that everyone celebrates my life at the big send off... no tears allowed

Oldfart

11-04-2005, 08:39 PM

I have a train of logic which has upset a few people in the past (shock horror).

It is a legal offence in Oz to with-hold or refuse aid which would have saved someone injury or death.

If by not allowing perfectly usable organs to be taken for transplant, you are contributing to the death of others, you are in breach of that law.

Should you have some deep religious or philosophical reason to be excluded from a universal transplant donor scheme, it could be assessed by a legal review panel and (mostly) accepted.

Excludists should be tattooed with an ultraviolet number so that mistakes are not made with "John Doe"s.

Most people are not registered organ donors because it's just too much trouble or they have not yet come to terms with their own mortality.

When the rights of the dead outweigh the rights of the living to keep living, something is very wrong with society.

Fangtasia

11-04-2005, 08:48 PM

I'm an organ donor...if they can find anything of use to someone...they can have it

PantyFanatic

11-05-2005, 12:09 AM

I have a train of logic which has upset a few people in the past (shock horror).

.......When the rights of the dead outweigh the rights of the living to keep living, something is very wrong with society.
OK :D Let’s turn this thread sideways (shock horror ) ;)

The only problem with a mandatory (universal, understood) donor program is the incentive that could grow to make 'early donors' for the benefit ‘special’ recipients. We all know that $pecial recipients are easy to identify and the donors will ALWAYS be the people that are NOT $pecial. :rolleyes2

I’m not going to comment on the last sentence as the rights of the rich has outweighed the rights of the poor since the specie learned write from wrong. ;)

:D

scotzoidman

11-05-2005, 12:44 AM

My ashes are to be scattered around a remote pond that is a distant tributary to the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie. That should start my world tour. :wave:

Maybe you should just arrange to have them toss your body in the next time the river catches fire...that way you could save on the cremation charge...
;)

PantyFanatic

11-05-2005, 10:14 AM

Maybe you should just arrange to have them toss your body in the next time the river catches fire...that way you could save on the cremation charge...
;)
That's option 2. :grin:

LOL