How do you want your body to be handled after death?

I was reading an article in the NYT today on the resurgence of home burials and it got me to thinking?

I know I want to be cremated after the donation of all usuable organs including eyes and skin. I came to this decision gradually but mostly because of a discussion with a friend of mine a few months before her death.

So any Green Burial people on the org? this is a great new approach!

medical donation? freezing?

I think the most important thing in all this is communicating your wishes to your friends and family members.

anyway I was just wondering...

http://www.nytimes.com/20...neral.html

I'm having a garage sale and a barbeque = organ donation (get 'em while they're HOT!) and cremation (SCNDLS on fiyah til the very end). I don't want none of that casket BS or graveyard stuff.

SCNDLS said:

Sounds like a good plan to me, too.

I believe I want all parts harvested and then cremation.

RodeoSchro said:

I don't get the point of being buried at all. It's a complete waste of money and who the hell is gonna clean up your grave 100 years from now. Plus stories like what happened at the cemetary in Chicago make me shudder.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

this is what i want, too. i don't want my rotting carcass taking up space in the ground. i took up enough space while i was alive.

SCNDLS said:

I have only visited my parents' grave once, and that was because my wife made me.

I just don't believe there is any part of them in the casket. Their beautiful souls are in Heaven and in my heart, all the time.

Doesn't matter to me. When you're dead you're dead.
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RodeoSchro said:

Exactly. When you go to a gravesite it's sad and usually tear-filled. I'd rather my friends and family keep me in their memories and hearts and laugh their asses off when they think about me.

SCNDLS said:

interesting, uh, concept

and...

morningsong said:

That phrase is actually in my will. And instead of a memorial service in a church I'm hosting a dinner with an open bar at my favorite steakhouse. I want my peeps getting fucked up in my honor, on my dime, one LAST time.

I have/had relatives buried all over New Orleans, I haven't asked anyone if they are all still buried. But when I saw those caskets floating in the flood waters I cried.

I knew then I didn't want to be buried.

I told my kids they could split me up if they wanted or sprinkle me over the bay.

butterfli25 said:

Donated to science already. University of San Francisco.

You have to read the book STIFF.





....only sayin'.....
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SCNDLS said:

Marry me, that's right, Marry me . . . .
We'll both have men on the side . . . .

Plastination.

SUPRMAN said:

If one more gay man proposes to me . . . Wait, you got benefits? Shit, I'd marry somebody for health benefits alone. But seriously, surely, one of us would die in a fight that undoubtedly started in P&R

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Same here, but that's not what my hubby wants and since the possiblity exists that I'll go before he does, I could end up buried in his family's graveyard in Texas.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I could never be a cadaver. I remember working on one when I was an occupational therapy major. Ummmmm, no thanks.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

This is one of my absolute favorite books!

Nothinbutjoy said:

I say I believe because my grandmother elected to be cremated virtually at the last minute. Not sure why that changed for her but I realize I may have a change of heart. Probably not though.

SCNDLS said:

How cheap are your Jimmy Choos gonna be?

i do not want to be burried,with the bugs,and dirt!omg,that is horrible to think about!

I like the idea of advancing the ashes to ashes process instead of waiting for a slow decay

1sexymf said:

Girl, we ain't the same size.

My will says that my girlfriends and nieces will be able to take what they want. Some things I've specifically left for certain people, like my furs and jewelry. But the shoes, handbags, and clothes are fair game to the named individuals. This reminds me that I need to update my will, power of attorney, and medical directive documents.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I told my hubby that if I go before him to do what he wants. Funerals are for the survivors.

If he goes before me, I'll do what he wants for his funeral.

Supadear

SCNDLS said:

I'll make them fit.

Maybe I should update mine too - though I'm on the fence re: cremation vs. grave.

SCNDLS said:

I worked on 2 cadavers in college. By coincidence they were both 74 years old or something like that. We had to trim the fat off of them so that we could label certain muscles. It was totally surreal. I'm glad that they're heads were all covered in gauze. It may have been a different experience if I could see who they were.

I remember my mom at the time. She would ask me if I worked with the cadavers every day. If I said I had she would say "Then don't kiss me." She didn't want me near her.

minneapolisgenius said:

Yes!!!! Love it!

Donate my organs then bury me.
I have to let my ppl know this.