MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Nope, ain't gon' be able to do it.

SCNDLS said:

I hear you.

"Laissez les bons temps rouler"

Oh, gawd after what was seen in one of those threads gone by, the fact of you hosting it ain't nothing, I get you though.

I have never really thought about it.....

Cremation

Ventriloquism

Anxiety said:

^^^

I like the idea of donating organs once you´re dead but then again I´m always a bit worried that some racist ambulance driver or the doctors at the hospital might just let me die and not really give their best to save me just to get the organs.I know it sounds weird but that´s probably the only reason why I´m still reluctant when it comes to donating organs.

butterfli25 said:

This is what I'm thinkin', as well.

minneapolisgenius said:

It's in my bookbag right now but I haven't cracked it.

To answer the question, I've been an organ donor since I first got my license. I also want to be cremated. I think morticians are evil bastards who thrive on people's misery. Unfortunately, my older sister has told me she does not plan to honor my wishes.

Spark my ass up.

harvest my organs, then throw me in the sea

SCNDLS said:

me too

All of my family know that I want anything donated that can be, then the rest cremated.

As my mom said, "We don't want to be planted."

Vendetta1 said:

I couldn't put it down.


oh, and you have to come back and haunt your sister then for that.
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Vendetta1 said:

You need to get your wishes stated in your will in very specific terms so everyone understands what you want done.
My mom has it all drawn out in her will. I am an old child so she wanted to make it easy for me, I suppose.

I wish to have anything donated that I can. Even if it is just for science or learning purposes. Who cares, once I am died, this body is of no use to me anymore.
I have not thought beyond that though. I am deathly afraid of fire so cremation sort of scares me.


I did have a living will drawn up when I lived in the states. If I am a veg, pull the plug, please.

MrsMdiver said:

I'm scareder of being a zombie than of fire!

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

my dad used to get a whole head to work on when he was studying dental surgery

I wish I could be buried out at sea

I plan on either donating my body to science or being cremated. I'm not sure how the cadaver process works, but if you can voluntarily give them your body then that is what I'd like to do b/c that is how doctors learn to save lives and how forensic scientists learn to bring criminals to justice. I feel like sealing the body in a box and putting it in the ground is kind of a waste.

I'm also an organ donor. I'm not sure if you can be an organ donor and a cadaver, but I'll work that out later.

If I am in fact too old and decrepit for that then I'll just be cremated.

PurpleRighteous1 said:

Read that book "Stiff" that's mentioned above. It tells you all about what you could be used for as a cadaver, even after your organs have been donated. There's just no end to the possibilities!

I love how it opens with the severed heads on trays for the plastic surgeons to practice nose jobs on. This could be you!

minneapolisgenius said:

I thought about that kind of stuff when I was at the Bodies Exhibit. I wonder if those ppl I was looking at ever imagined they would be on display like that.

MrsMdiver said:

See my above answer as to what I want to have done when I die. I have actually seriously considered plastination. I've seen the exhibit twice actually, once in Brussels when it was still farily new, and once in Mpls. I find it so fascinating.

Although my mom said that if I die before her, she refuses to come and visit me in the traveling exhibit.

I'm not donating anything, I wanna go the way I came, intact in pure human form and be buried 6 feet under.

minneapolisgenius said:

It is definitely a must see exhibit. I have only seen it once in Florida. It was amazing!!!!!

MrsMdiver said:

Yeah, the first time I saw it I had no clue what I was even going to because we just drove down to Brussels with some friends, one of which is a nurse, who wanted to see this "medical exhibit". So you can bet I was a bit shocked at what it actually was.

They held it in this old cool cave/tunnel location underground, which made it really creepy. I was so influenced by it all, that I wouldn't shut up about it for weeks afterward. I thought it was really beautiful.

The second time, I wasn't as impressed because I had already seen it, seen the same people, and it was held at the Science Museum of Minnesota, which was all light and bright and modern, which sort of took away the creepiness for me.

I want people to drink and be happy and remember the good i've done. I wanna be cremated i am considering being a donor as well

minneapolisgenius said:

that sounds like a VERY fun read.

Why do people always qualify their statements by saying things like "I know this is a morbid subject but....", like they are apologising for something or they are worried about what people think of their statement.

Death is a fact. It happens every day. Why are people so apologetic about bringing it up??

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

a slow decay is fine with me. I'ma donate what ever can be donated and put the rest of me in a box and throw some dirt on it.
the thought of being burnt up is like NO FUCKIN' WAY! for me. Oi!
but practically everyone I know wants to be cremated.

I have a fear of waking up in my coffin under ground..so take my heart eyes organs...then I won't be afraid of coming back to life.