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Permalink Reply by Dylan Sloboda on September 28, 2011 at 2:26am

I've always been partial to the concept behind the Tibetan sky burial. In Tibet the ground is mostly rocks and there is very little wood to burn. So they partially cut up a body to facilitate predation and natural decomposition and place them on a mountain. To them, the body of the deceased is just seen as an empty vessel that they are returning to nature.

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Permalink Reply by Darlene Edelman on September 28, 2011 at 3:41am

Dylan, I like their attitude

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Permalink Reply by Ronald on September 28, 2011 at 12:29pm

That's really interesting

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Permalink Reply by Darlene Edelman on September 28, 2011 at 3:40am

I wanted to donate my body to the Body Farm, where they do experiments for forensic applications. However, you have to pay to have the body shipped there and I am retired on social security. Don't have any money. No close family. I told my friends not to claim my body. The county can burn, bury, use it for cat food. I don't care. I am also a donor but, after a certain age, they rarely use your organs -- still, maybe something will be usable.

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Permalink Reply by Laura Benedict on September 28, 2011 at 9:24pm

Other options include donating your body to medical school. This allows med students to practice autopsy.  

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Permalink Reply by Darlene Edelman on September 29, 2011 at 2:55am

Yes, I tried that too, but they also required that one pay shipping. I live in a small town; no medical school for hundreds of miles.

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Permalink Reply by joshua james on September 28, 2011 at 3:58am

what Dylan said.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afGkv0IT4dU

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Permalink Reply by James on September 28, 2011 at 10:49pm

I'm a full body donor. I like the idea that my body will go to use when I die. Also, I'll be cremated rather than senselessly taking up space in the ground. There is a new option available where your body can be dissolved in water. But I think its only available in Florida so far. I love the idea of having my ashes ejected into space. Too bad it's probably not a feasible option.

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Permalink Reply by Darlene Edelman on September 29, 2011 at 2:56am

I wouldn't mind being ejected into space. Never heard of the dissolving-in-water plan. Must take quite a while.

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Permalink Reply by James on September 29, 2011 at 9:22pm

From what I read, it takes about the same as cremation. The water is highly pressurized, heated and alkaline. The liquid is then dumped into the water system and the bones are recovered and crushed to ash.

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Permalink Reply by Bob MacVay on September 28, 2011 at 10:55pm

Cremation makes complete sense in our world. I agree with the total waste of land and money when it comes to grave yards. And if you notice historically, they always picked the best and most potentially valuable real estate in the community, usually on a hill overlooking the water, etc.with obviously no thought of the never ending maintenance requirements. Also no concern with tying up land forever, when you consider the room for all of the population of the earth past and going forward.It all just goes with the pagan based denial that dead bodies are just deteriorating carcases after death, and when people are gone they are just memories in the minds of the people they left behind.

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Permalink Reply by Jerry on September 28, 2011 at 11:16pm

I may be seventeen, but one idea that I like is just having my body dumped in the woods somewhere. That way I can say I came from the nature, and I returned to it.

 

I am an organ donor, btw.

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