What do you want done with your body after you die?

[Bertha Venation]

Inspired by orleans's thread "what do you want written on your tombstone" http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018192500

23 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	cremated, scatter ashes
	6 (26%)
	cremated, ashes kept in urn
	2 (9%)
	traditional burial
	3 (13%)
	donated to science
	7 (30%)
	funeral pyre
	0 (0%)
	shot into space
	0 (0%)
	preserved cryogenically
	0 (0%)
	you missed something
	0 (0%)
	other -- please describe
	5 (22%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[HappyMe]

1. Do you know something I don't?

Give it to science. Hopefully, they won't turn it down.

[OriginalGeek]

2. I said science but

I'm not sure they will find out much more than "Huh, beer and cake are bad for you..."


Hmmmm, maybe I should start drinking organic beer...that oughtta throw 'em for a loop...

[Arugula Latte]

7. I figure even if some med student dissects me like a frog, I've contributed something.

[OriginalGeek]

33. I wonder if I could have a sign surgically implanted

in maybe my chest cavity so when first year med student comes along to practice his/her cutting it pops up and says "OUCH!"

That would tickle my funny bone.

Maybe I could rig it so it only deploys if they make their first cut incorrectly..then everyone gets to laugh AND they learn something...

[av8rdave]

3. I would prefer...

(tips hat to Rodney Dangerfield) that my body be donated to science fiction.

Seriously, donate to science would be the best option. I can think of no better way to make some use out of my remains.

When science is finished, I would be just fine with cremating whatever is left and flushing it.

My Dad claims he wants his sent to the taxidermist.

To each his own...

[pipi_k]

4. Freeze dried and...

made into crackers by the Keebler elves.

Oh, wait....


Or left out for wild animals to eat.

[Remmah2]

23. Jerky?

Just saying.

[pipi_k]

42. Now there's an idea...

I would be honored to sit next to the Slim Jims and potato chips at the 7-11 counter

[heaven05]

5. yep

on the cremation and the ashes could be flushed, I wouldn't give damn. I make it to the ocean sooner or later.

[Iggo]

6. Flip a coin.

Heads: Cannibals
Tails: Necrophiliacs

[Remmah2]

9. I'm warped.

That's warpedly funny.

[OriginalGeek]

34. See?

Always thinking of others. This is why you are awesome.

[Remmah2]

8. If you donate your body to a medical school you ultimatly get a free cremation.

It's SOP.

For me, donate then cremate, then fertilize the flowers.

I do want them to donate all the usable parts first.

[pipi_k]

14. If you've really

lived your life to its fullest, there shouldn't be any usable parts left.

[Shadowflash]

10. Don't care. I'll be dead.

The dumpster behind the funeral home after the service would save everybody a LOT of money.

[Arugula Latte]

11. ...

[fizzgig]

32. science!

[Liberal Veteran]

12. Reanimated and sent on a quest looking for fresh brain matter.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

15. So you want to come back as a Republican?

No offense, just thinking about a group that could use some fresh brain matter.

[geardaddy]

13. Tossed into the north woods of MN

for the animals to snack on.

[pipi_k]

16. Speaking of snacking...

I was sitting around earlier and there was an episode of "My Strange Addiction" on the TV.

A young widow had her husband cremated, and then started carrying his ashes around in an urn literally everywhere she went. Movies, shopping, etc.

One day she opened the urn and got some of his ashes on her fingers, and felt it would be disrespectful to wipe them off, so she licked them.

That set up this whole addiction where she's eating nothing but his ashes five or six times a day...licking her finger, sticking it in the urn and eating the ashes.

When she first got him (less than three months ago) he weighed six lbs.

Now he weighs five lbs.

She worries about what happens when she eats the last of him and there's nothing left.

[geardaddy]

18. That sounds like an awesome show.

[pipi_k]

44. Oh, it is!

The episode before that one featured a lady who had been eating two boxes of dryer fabric softener sheets a week.

She wraps them in tissue paper because the flavors are too strong and she eats the tissue and dryer sheets together.

[Chan790]

29. There will never be nothing left.

He's a part of her corporeal body. His carbon is at-least.

[pipi_k]

43. I don't think she's seeing it that way, though

She wants the actual ashes to carry around with her.

Personally, I would have a very small portion of his ashes placed into one of those tiny canister things you can wear on a chain around your neck.

Or have him made into a diamond. Which, admittedly, is pretty expensive.

[a la izquierda]

46. I literally just gagged reading this out loud to my husband.

I think I'm going to be sick.

[Denninmi]

17. Cremation.

Burn, baby, burn.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. Being stuffed and mounted would be interesting

but I'm not sure that's legal. And I'm also not sure who'd want my old stuffed carcass in their den.

[ismnotwasm]

20. Donate it to a CSI school

Whatever they call those things. Wanted to do that ever since I read "Stiff" by Mary Roach

[sharp_stick]

24. You mean the body farm at UT Knoxville?

http://fac.utk.edu/

They do some really weird and fascinating work.

For my part, after reading Stiff, I've decided to forego the Plastic Surgeon Practice Face or the real Crash Test Dummy

[era veteran]

21. Burned up and some ashes in Compost Pile in Lexington.

Some in Campbellsville, some in Germany, some in Panama, some at the French Cemetery in Yorktown.
I am weird but I have reasons.
Want my kids to travel. LOL

[Chan790]

22. I want a green burial.

No embalming, no marker, none of the fancy or preservative stuff, no casket...by necessity, no open viewing because I'll stink.

Just wrap me in linen and throw me into a hole in the ground. Worm food. Wooooooooorm Food. I'm gonna feed the wormies.

[elleng]

26. And I'm gonna push up daisies! See next post!!!

[elleng]

25. Pushing up daisies

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[liberal N proud]

27. I will not be needing it anymore

If one of you want it, you will have to take that up with my wife.

[Taverner]

28. Natural Burial

Donate organs, burial in the woods, no lye please

[HereSince1628]

30. I've taught human anatomy and I'm not going to be leaving my body for health-science students

Sure it won't matter to me then. But the thought of doing it while I am alive projects so much indignity that I find it personally abhorrent.

Additionally while I don't have a problem with donating tissue, I think organ transplants are biased to those who can finance them, and consequently undemocratic. In the next ~5 years when my body will become available, I don't expect that to get better so I've nixed both receiving and donating organs in my end of life directives to my power of attorney for health-care.

I rather like the idea of returning to the elemental cycles of star-stuff in a dignified, hygienic, environmentally friendly manner, and I know just the teen-aged oak-tree in whose dripline I'd like to work my re-entry into the natural cycle of star-stuff.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

61. If I understand what you are saying...

My sister said she would never donate to science after taking an anatomy class and working with cadavers.

[Nikia]

31. Traditional Burial

I have children. I think that it is important that there is a place for them to visit "me" if they so choose. I am glad that there is a place that I can visit my dead grandparents so that's why I feel that way. Maybe that's overly sentimental over practical.

[DFW]

35. Anything they want, as long as they get my consent first.

I always was a big fan of reanimation..........

[GumboYaYa]

36. Taxidermy...and I want one of those little buttons you can hit that

causes on of several pre-recorded sayings to play randomly

[yawnmaster]

37. well...finish making love to it, for one thing. After that don't care. eom

[Generic Brad]

38. I don't care

Funerals are for the people who are alive. My loved ones can do whatever they want to find the comfort they need.

[Major Nikon]

39. Cremated. Ashes flushed down toilet

That way all my friends and family will think of me at least twice per day.

[Pool Hall Ace]

40. I've already signed up for medical school.

[cpwm17]

41. Dumped in a field to be picked apart by vultures.

I'll be dead so it doesn't matter to me, plus it's free.

[Johonny]

45. soylent green

[rustydog]

47. After the formal funeral memorial, we took my sister-in-law's ashes

to her sister's farm and spread them where she liked to sit and chat with her sister and enjoy the valley view.
It was very emotional and healing.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

48. If I am still living here on this property, there is a Huge Oak Tree where One Day (many yrs from

now) I will walk under and lay my head at the base of the trunk facing East. The End of Me.

[rachel1]

49. I'd allow for some of my organs to be donated to science

and for the rest to be cremated.

[whistler162]

50. BBQ

[flying rabbit]

51. Set ablaze on a viking longboat

and pushed out to sea. with "ride of the valkyries" blasted on an endless loop,until my ashes pass into the ocean. Preferably somewhere tropical.

[musette_sf]

52. My inspiration:

Luther Burbank

[HeiressofBickworth]

53. Cremated

My granddaughter wants to be a doctor with the ultimate goal of joining the astronaut program and go to Mars. I asked her if she would take my ashes with her when she goes to Mars. She said she would !!

[Sweet Freedom]

54. I read years ago

that there's someplace in Europe that freezes you, places you on a vibrating table, and shakes you into powder that is then used to fertilize trees. I've never been able to find the name of the process, but that's what I want done.

[HopeHoops]

55. Have it posed naked with about 20 naked women and have the pictures sold to a tabloid.

They can claim I'm Tommy Chong in a scandalous position, even though I'm neither Tommy Chong or alive at that point. That doesn't seem to matter to the tabloids.

[Glorfindel]

56. Donated to science. I have already made the arrangements

I assume they cremate the remains afterward, but I don't really care.

[Blue_Tires]

57. I wanna get turned into a RoboCop

[Javaman]

58. My GF and I have been discussing just this as we fill out our living wills...

I had thought first of being buried and then having a fruit tree of some kind planted over me.

Hand dug grave, no fossil fuels needed. But then I thought, my body would need to be transported there, etc. So that was out.

Then I thought about donating my body to science, but once you do that, donating your organs is pretty much a no go since most medical colleges want the body fully intact.

However, you can donate only your head.

I'm still researching this.

[Moogy]

59. My remains

Donate as many organs/body parts as are useful. (I worked in a dialysis clinic and I saw how very many organs are needed. But I can't donate a kidney now because I am diabetic.)
Then cremate the rest of me, put the ashes in a nice box or urn and bury it in the family plot. As an avid genealogist, I love to visit family cemeteries, so I want a stone.
In Texas, you can bury ashes yourself without the asst of a funeral home. I have done this for three relatives.

[kas125]

60. I'm going to medical school. I figure it's the only way I could ever get there and maybe

it'll help someone, so that's what I did.

[dimbear]

62. Eaten by wild animals. Preferably crocodiles, vultures would be OK.

You can do this, but it's expensive. Expensive to get somewhere it's allowed, I mean.

[juliathesexworker]

63. donate to science

I do not need it anymore after I die