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Permalink Reply by Eoganacht on November 19, 2011 at 3:53am

Would perfer a norse send off with a burning boat and a sword in hand. But there would be legal problems with torching boats and bodies. I don't like the idea of being in dirt (and then peat, coal) until the sun expodes or someone digs me up. I would like a stone sarcophagus. Something that will stand against time a bit better than chemically treated wood.

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Permalink Reply by Darrell Mont on November 19, 2011 at 3:56am

I too will be a science cadavar. I am a criminologist with a minor focus in forensic anthropology. I am always thankful for those who donated their bodies for my benefit. To paraphrase Dr. William Maples... It is the responsibility of those who have benefitted from biological and osteological models to propegate the next generation of students.

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Permalink Reply by Jason on November 19, 2011 at 9:54am

Anyone interested in being cryogenically frozen?  Or is that considered pseudoscience?

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Permalink Reply by fester60613 on November 19, 2011 at 3:28pm

Cremation and the ashes spread in a remote location of nature's beauty. Instructions given in both written and video formats.

I believe it really doesn't matter what happens to my body after I die - but, being the youngest child of two youngest children (my mothers father was born in 1872!) I've been to waaaaaay too many funerals and I really don't want folks gawking at my carcass and saying nice things just because they're supposed to be saying nice things. I'd rather be dissed and insulted and railed against as an evil damned pus sucking ass wipe - if it's sincere disrespect.

And I like the idea of being fish food, the concept of my physical atoms spreading throughout the biosphere to become - in a different way - a tiny part of the astounding natural beauty of the earth that has given me so much joy and inspiration over the course of my life.

No funeral service, no gravestone, no prayers (ick!), no permanent nor solemn remembrance - just a parting toast of sincere remembrance - good, bad or indifferent.

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Permalink Reply by David Schumacher on November 19, 2011 at 4:09pm

Well cremation was my choice too until I figured out that global warming is a real issue and problem we are leaving to our children and grandchildren.  I think now I will follow Neal deGrasse Tyson's thinking and be returned to the Earth with as little fanfare and cost as possible. It seems to me that cremation is a big waste of energy if it is done with fossil fuels.  Maybe a pyre using dead wood from my own woodlot would be an option.  The carbon from the wood will be going back to the atmosphere in the next few decades anyway.

 

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Permalink Reply by Keath Vickery on November 19, 2011 at 6:26pm

I am absolutely going to donate my body to science. I need my last effort in life to fund and help something I love so much. Though I've done a lot of 'substances' so maybe science wouldn't want my body at all haha.

If that's the case I want to be buried without a casket so, like Neil DeGrasse Tyson, I can be returned to the Earth. 

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Permalink Reply by Tatyana Harris on November 19, 2011 at 9:22pm

I want to give my body to science. I don't think a lot of African Americans do this so I feel like I'll be helping out even more :)

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Permalink Reply by Boatman on November 20, 2011 at 7:20am

I have often considered donating my body to science, but, knowing how my life usually runs, I'd probably end up donating it to science fiction.

 

Seriously, though,  I have signed off on the whole organ donor thing.  If, by the time I shuffle off this mortal coil I've haven't ruined my vital organs, the medical authorities are clear to make use of whatever still works, and dispose of the rest according to local laws and customs.  Face it, I won't be needing any of it.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Redekop on January 23, 2012 at 9:14am

I will have my organs donated to save lives, and the rest given to science or education. If anything remains, it is to be cremated and then composted. Finally, I want this compost to be distributed in places where my loved ones may visit me and enjoy nature (or "God's creation" if that's how they feel) as I did while I was alive.

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Permalink Reply by Lily Barnes on January 24, 2012 at 11:01pm

I've always intended to be cremated and have my ashes scattered in a garden or an orchard, but I'm also liking an idea of donating my corpse to science more and more, have no problem with that whatsoever - why not make yourself useful to society one last time? Certainly will not have any use for the old (hopefully!) body once I've shuffled off this mortal coil... I have not put together my will yet though, keep thinking how I have to do it, but it's just been one of those things that keep getting pushed to the back burner... Pretty irresponsible on my part, I know - gotta take care of it, and soon - certainly wouldn't want to leave the burden to my kids. 

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Permalink Reply by Grady Jean on February 12, 2012 at 12:37pm

In the event of me going Comatose, with no chance of me coming out of it, I've made it clear that I do not want to be kept on Life Support. I don't want to burden my family with that. I've basically got it down that they should harvest whatever they want and burn the rest, then mix me into compost and plant a tree with said compost, since I'm pretty sure it's illegal for a corpse to buried without a coffin, and I have no desire for my corps to sit locked up in a grave for all eternity. Do something useful with it.

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