| User | Comment |
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dab   | | posted 28-Apr-2008 7:40am |
Dying is unacceptable. Once that has happened, I don't much care what happens to the remains because I'll be dead. |
Melf    | | posted 28-Apr-2008 7:45am |
Anything. |
| RainingFeathers | | posted 28-Apr-2008 7:56am |
The only thing I want done with my body after I'm dead is for it to be cremated and the ashes spread somewhere. I hate the idea of being buried (waste of space, waste of money, and eventually there will be bugs burrowing through my body. Uggh). I don't want anyone keeping my ashes (seems kind of creepy to me). I guess being used for teaching, experimenting, or donating would be okay, but not my first choice. |
| JessicaWoman99 | | posted 28-Apr-2008 10:41am |
Only burial is acceptable and this is not even funny of a survey go figure |
| Enheduanna | | posted 28-Apr-2008 11:24am |
Donate any useful parts to people who need them, burn the rest. I didn't pick the "Any contemporary western treatment" option because cremation is the only one that is ok with me. I don't want to be pumped full of chemicals and buried. |
| thecomic22 | | posted 28-Apr-2008 12:34pm |
Um, this is morbid. I wanna be buried. But I'm never going to die. |
| Frostbrand | | posted 28-Apr-2008 12:55pm |
Donate my organs, cremate the rest, use me as fertilizer. I say that in a NON sarcastic way; I actually mean it. |
| LJD | | posted 28-Apr-2008 2:05pm |
A proper burial. |
| RGirl | | posted 28-Apr-2008 3:17pm |
Organ transplants then burial for me please. Whatever you do DO NOT put me in the ocean or any other large body of water. I have a bit of a phobia going on for large bodies of water. |
| Crayons | | posted 28-Apr-2008 5:36pm |
I don't really care. In fact I hope it will be rather interesting. Burial is boring, I worry what will happen if they run out of dirt to bury us all in. Not to mention the coffin. |
| jettles | | posted 28-Apr-2008 7:04pm |
organ donation, cremation, that's it! |
| they | | posted 29-Apr-2008 9:20am |
Burial (I couldn't pick that one!), cremation, rot/critters.
That's it.
I don't want science picking at me. |
| Frostbrand |
Cemeteries and golf courses are the two biggest wastes of land in this country. |
| thecomic22 |
Maybe that's true. But I want to be buried next to the people that I love. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't give two craps where I was put or what was done with me. *shrugs* |
| aquawolfy | | posted 29-Apr-2008 3:47pm |
I don't think I want to die. Being a vampire is fine with me though! Nightime is already my favorite time. |
| aquawolfy | | posted 29-Apr-2008 3:50pm |
But if I do die, I'll be buried, I guess cremation is fine too and spread me over the forests. |
LindaH   |
We should combine them.  |
| Kristal_Rose | | posted 30-Apr-2008 2:42am |
Just about any of these are ok except industrial testing, target practice, or recreational abuse.
I came up with this survey when it dawned on me that some people who donated their body to science had post-mortem sex changes. |
| Kristal_Rose |
Combine them, that's just what I was going to suggest. It would make the game more interesting with vertical headstones. |
| icurok | | posted 30-Apr-2008 7:26am |
Burial is a primitive superstition, borne out of the need to do something with ones dead as human populations grew beyond the level when dead bodies laying around became a health risk to the living. However, as human populations have reached their present level, burial presents another problem - namely the sheer amount of space required for all the burial plots. Technology offers better ways of disposing our dead. Unfortunately, it seems, our superstitions haven't caught up.
This survey reminded me of the following extract from an essay written by Sir Bertrand Russell entitled "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".
The resurrection of the body, which is an article of the Apostles' Creed, is a dogma which has various curious consequences. There was an author not very many years ago, who had an ingenious method of calculating the date of the end of the world. He argued that there must be enough of the necessary ingredients of a human body to provide everybody with the requisites at the Last Day. By carefully calculating the available raw material, he decided that it would all have been used up by a certain date. When that date comes, the world must end, since otherwise the resurrection of the body would become impossible. Unfortunately I have forgotten what the date was, but I believe it is not very distant.
St. Thomas Aquinas, the official philosopher of the Catholic Church, discussed lengthily and seriously a very grave problem, which, I fear, modern theologians unduly neglect. He imagines a cannibal who has never eaten anything but human flesh, and whose father and mother before him had like propensities. Every particle of his body belongs rightfully to someone else. We cannot suppose that those who have been eaten by cannibals are to go short through all eternity. But, if not, what is left for the cannibal? How is he to be properly roasted in hell, if all his body is restored to its original owners? This is a puzzling question, as the Saint rightly perceives.
In this connection the orthodox have a curious objection to cremation, which seems to show an insufficient realization of God's omnipotence. It is thought that a body which has been burnt will be more difficult for Him to collect together again than one which has been put underground and transformed into worms. No doubt collecting the particles from the air and undoing the chemical work of combustion would be somewhat laborious, but it is surely blasphemous to suppose such a work impossible for the Deity. I conclude that the objection to cremation implies grave heresy. But I doubt whether my opinion will carry much weight with the orthodox.
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| Frostbrand | | (reply to icurok) posted 30-Apr-2008 12:19pm |
Nicely put. |
| Van |
Harvest the organs that are able to be used to help others then send my body to the Body Farm. |
| ballin1000 |
To hard to say it'll make me sad T^T |
| ihatespiders | | posted 2-May-2008 11:02pm |
I prefer cremation, but I really dont care what happens to my corpse, I dont need or want it anymore. |
| Enigma |
Burn me up buttercup. |
Iseult  |
I wouldn't care.
Being dead does that to you, you know. |
| Kristal_Rose |
I've got a new plan to help save the world: rooftop cemetaries. |
| cloudhugger |
I know it doesn't really matter...but I would like to think that my body will be respected. Dragging it behind bikes is a big no, eating me doesn't seem right, and as long as the attending loved ones are happy with the decision aslo. |
| cloudhugger |
That has got to be a fung shui nightmare! |
| Kristal_Rose |
LOL. My line of thought was a convergence of my recent acid test for indefinite sustainability, can any system of hydroponic agriculture, solar power, or algae bio-diesel be met on the rooftops of those who live beneath it, however crowded the planet; that conversation about combining golf courses and cemetaries; my recent research about Zoroastrians leaving their dead on towers to be eaten by buzzards; and passing by a cemetary while thinking about rooftop gardens. |
| cloudhugger |
Ahhh...ewww.
I can see not having a rooftop party gathering the weekend of Aunt Sallies funeral. |
| Kristal_Rose |
I've gone to a couple of party funerals, Scottish bagpipe-lament / ceilidh-dance style, and SF garden wine-party style. |
| cloudhugger |
I've been to an Irish Wake. It wasn't a real one...it was Saint Patricks Day and my friend and a few of his buddies carried a coffin from the funeral home from down the block empty of course, just a loaner). Someone stole some flowers from a wake or a cemetary (?) to decorate the bar.It was freaking hilarious. The bar was hopping from 11 am till ? We were there all day till 10 pm when we had to go to work. We both worked midnghts at this factory. We were so drunk and he worked in his tux that night.  Ahhhh.... good times |
| Biggles | | posted 10-May-2008 5:07pm |
I'd prefer my body to be put to some use after I die - organ donation would be the first thing I would hope for, but if that's not possible then I'd be happy for my body to be used for educational dissection or research. I read about the use of bodies as crash test dummies and that certainly seems very worthwhile. I wouldn't be so keen on the thought of someone using my body for frivolous purposes like cosmetic surgery though, or for anti-human purposes like weapon's testing. |
