Subject of the day: cadavers
I finished reading stiff and i want to know what everyone wants to have done with their bodies when they are dead ... write to me in the comments section! Details would be appreciated.
burial
cremation
body donation if so what would you hope that they would do with it?
imapct tests?
ammunition tests?
anatomy studies?
surgical practice?
decomposition studies?
made into skeleton?
made into fertalizer
liquified and flushed into the sewers
burial at sea
mummified
in ice?
plastic?
dried?
the funniest thing i came across in the book is at the very end the author talks about this guy who wrote about how he believed his skeleton was a sentient being working to free itself from his body and that when he dies it will have achieved its goal to usurp power from the body.
burial
cremation
body donation if so what would you hope that they would do with it?
imapct tests?
ammunition tests?
anatomy studies?
surgical practice?
decomposition studies?
made into skeleton?
made into fertalizer
liquified and flushed into the sewers
burial at sea
mummified
in ice?
plastic?
dried?
the funniest thing i came across in the book is at the very end the author talks about this guy who wrote about how he believed his skeleton was a sentient being working to free itself from his body and that when he dies it will have achieved its goal to usurp power from the body.
posted by Peaches @ 6:00 PM
11 Comments:
At 6:13 PM,
Nikki said…
Hmmm, I'm sure mine will be more boring than Red Beard's, but I definitely want to donate my organs. But I don't want to donate my body to science. Bury it, I guess. Or cremate it. Haven't decided.
At 6:15 PM,
Peaches said…
i didn't mention the whole body organ donation thing because what are the chances that we'll be brain dead but yeah ... i guess that's something someone should know about your wishes
At 6:18 PM,
Nikki said…
It's not like organ donation is so rare--it's possible in lots of cases. You can be completely dead, not just brain dead, and donate organs if they can get to 'em fast enough. And your family still has to know what you wanted to do with them--they can't just take them from any dead bodies they want.
At 6:32 PM,
Anonymous said…
I think I would personally like to be chopped up into little peices and force fed to my enemies. Then they would have my diseases.
At 6:33 PM,
Peaches said…
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At 6:34 PM,
Peaches said…
i never said that body parts could be taken from bodies without consent.
At 9:04 PM,
Anonymous said…
I noticed that you left reanimation and zombification off of that list. Weren't those options mentioned in the book?
Seriously: I'd like to donate my non-brain organs and then give my brain to neurologists so that they can figure out how the brain works. I'd like some part of me to be buried, simply because I want a tombstone that my descendants can visit, even if they never met me.
Rediculously: My hope is that the neurologists can reverse engineer my mind and transfer my consciousness into a cyborg. My skeleton will be reassembled into a frightening pose and placed in a natural history museum next to a sign that will read "Here we see B. Turkelsapiens stalking his prey. Note the bipedal stance, 3D vision, and serrated teeth up to 12 inches long. He appears to have had an 'egg tooth' on the side of his head at one point." They may have added some parts of a T. Rex skeleton in for effect. Standing next to the exhibit I will laugh mechanically at how weak my organic body was and in a fit of irony trip and fall onto the gigantic tooth, impaling myself. Before my hydrogen power cell explodes I will utter the word "Rosebud" which nobody gets because A. Nobody in the future has seen Citizen Kane and B. Sleds are no longer around due to global warming.
At 9:39 PM,
Anonymous said…
ummm crystal. this topic disgusts me. please discuss something more pleasant that i can comment on. thank you. hehe.
At 3:09 PM,
Shelly said…
I know exactly what I want! I want to donate my organs to people, then science if necessary. I want to be cremated (soon enough there wont be enough land space for burial anyway). My loved ones can each take a portion of my ashes and do what they want with it (not keep me on a mantel though, ew). Preferably sprinkled in some garden or something.
At 10:02 PM,
Peaches said…
when you will your body to someone they arrange the cremation ... if there's anything left. I don't think that family gets any remains
At 9:39 AM,
Anonymous said…
Dead bodies, eh... Ideally everything but my right leg and my organs would be used in some sort of educational, scientific, or medical pursuit. The organs would of course go to those who need them most, transplant patients and hungry orphans. I'm not sure what other purpose a one-legged and organless corpse can serve, but if someone can find a use they are welcome to the remains of my remains.
You may be asking at this point why I want my right leg removed. The answer is both simple and logical. The femur and tibia are to be hewn into an ornate and exquisitely engraved sword. This sword, the Bonesaber of Vrijheid, will strike the final blow in the 26th century War of Human Independence. This greatest of all wars will be fought to throw off the shackles of tryanny imposed on the human race by a terrible and fearsome cadre of alien overlords. Only then will my legacy to humanity be complete.
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