major bummer for my donating my body

[kittynh]

Ever since I read the book "Stiff" I've been really tempted to donate my body to the Body Farm. Seems cool. It was on television recently and it seemed like a good cause.

However, the whole dowsing thing is totally upsetting me.

Between that and the whole brokering in body parts (you donate your body, they sell it to some plastic surgery convention....) I'm really beginning to rethink it all.

The whole point of donating your body is to further science, not make money for someone else, or help a woo belief.

Anyone want my body (after death of course)?

What's a girl to do with her corpse?

[tkingdoll]

You know what would be cool? To be acid-stripped and be a classroom skeleton!

We had a plastic one at primary school which was ace, but one time a teacher brought a real skull in, it was so exciting I've never forgotten it.

[Starrman]

I wanna be in that French guy's cadaver art:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0829_050829_human_bodies.html

And I want my corpse to be bowling with a beer in its hand.

[JohnF_73]

news://alt.binaries.necrophilia ?

[ma1ic3]

I want your body (after death of course)!

[macgyver]

I always thought it'd be cool to be freeze dried, wrapped in foil and then jettisoned into space towards the nearest possible inhabited planet (SETI can help here).

I figure:

A) I'm found by an alien intelligence and based on my trajectory and physiology they learn something about what we are and were we come from.

B) I'm a tasty re-hydrated snack

[Blue Mountain]

Is it possible to state on your gift conditions under which it may be used?

Not that you'd be able to do much about it if they were ignored.

[kittynh]

that's the problem. There was a major investigation that showed some schools are just at the end of the year shovelling some ashes in a bag from a big communal can to send to the families. The way it is supposed to work is that the families get the remains after a year.

It seems that skeleton is very popular. They don't need any. However, I have a slight condition that might make me an interesting skeleton....

Also the best way to make a skeleton is done by the Smithsonian. They have a room where they let BUGS do the work. I guess it is pretty much the stinkiest place on Earth! I would so like the bugs to eat me up and then be a cool if crooked skeleton.

My husband says I should be buried at sea as I eat so much seafood, it is only fair they get theirs back!

[ceo_esq]

You know what would be cool? To be acid-stripped and be a classroom skeleton!

We had a plastic one at primary school which was ace, but one time a teacher brought a real skull in, it was so exciting I've never forgotten it.

David Sedaris has a very funny piece in the current New Yorker (here (http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060508fa_fact)) about the human skeleton he bought as a present for his partner:

... There's a latch in the center of the forehead, and removing the linchpin allows you to open the skull and either root around or hide things - drugs, say, or small pieces of jewelry. It's not what one hopes for when thinking about an afterlife ("I'd like for my head to be used as a stash box"), but I didn't let that bother me.

[petre]

I want your body (after death of course)!

I'm sure you felt your parenthetical comment would make your fully-noble intentions clear. I am sorry to report that it still leaves (and dare I say strengthens) an interpretation that many will find distasteful.

:p

[MRC_Hans]

*snip*
Anyone want my body (after death of course)?
*snip*

Sorry. I wouldn't want your body without your soul.

Hans

[Skeptic]

Anyone want my body (after death of course)?

Damn, there's always a catch!

[Lord Muck oGentry]

kittynh,

You could always do a Jeremy Bentham:

http://www.utilitarianism.com/jeremy-bentham/jb.html

Every gal her own icon?

[billydkid]

You know what would be cool? To be acid-stripped and be a classroom skeleton!

We had a plastic one at primary school which was ace, but one time a teacher brought a real skull in, it was so exciting I've never forgotten it.

I want to know where the skeleton I used in school came from - it looked incredibly healthy and had incredibly perfect teeth. I am tempted to believe it came from a skeleton farm.

[Dicon]

At least once a week, we get a call from some charitable organization asking if we have any household items to donate.

I say the first one who calls after I die gets me.

[wolfgirl]

My husband says I should be buried at sea as I eat so much seafood, it is only fair they get theirs back!Then you might want to consider this:

http://www.eternalreefs.com/

This is what I'm doing. As a scuba diver, it seems appropriate. Plus we've joked that our non-diving friends will finally have to take up scuba diving if they want to visit our graves!

[ChewieRot]

I've left instructions that all usable organs be donated as appropriate. What ever's left I figure is the hospital's problem. It is appalling what people spend on funerals. Our vet charged $75 to have our old dog burried in a farmer's field. The fee was based on the size of the dog and he was big. They should be able to do me for under $150.

[case sensitive]

I've left instructions that all usable organs be donated as appropriate. What ever's left I figure is the hospital's problem. It is appalling what people spend on funerals. Our vet charged $75 to have our old dog burried in a farmer's field. The fee was based on the size of the dog and he was big. They should be able to do me for under $150.

Well you could have eaten your dog, saving you 75 dollar and a bundle on food. And then let your new dog eat you saving your dog 150 and then some.

[kittynh]

I won't tell you what I pay to have pets cremated. And they sit around the house. In nice boxes. Meanwhile all the humans want their bodies to go to science.

But not the pets.

[case sensitive]

Meanwhile all the humans want their bodies to go to science.



Yes that is what everyone wants.

[Hellbound]

Yes that is what everyone wants.

To be fair, I believe her meaning was "all the humans in this house". ;)

Personally, I want my body encased in a clear polymer and put into orbit, slightly bent over with my butt bared to the world.

I'd like to give Earth a second moon :D

[Beleth]

I want my body to be dumped in a remote peat bog, wearing only a bathing suit and a Blackberry. That'll make future anthropologists think...

[Gargoyle]

I want my body to be dumped in a remote peat bog, wearing only a bathing suit and a Blackberry. That'll make future anthropologists think...

Why not in a wet suit, high heeled shoes, feather hat, tutu and a giant picture of The "Great King of the Rock- and Grace Land" Elvis Presley?
THAT would make them think... ;)

[Luke T.]

Another solution to the problem. (http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?postid=510463#post510463)

Actually the whole topic is interesting and only 11 posts long. :)

[Neutiquam Erro]

If it should happen that I have some advance knowledge of my imminent death, I kind of like the idea of being dropped off in the wilderness alone, to meet whatever peaceful or savage fate I might find.

[Metullus]

I would like my body to stand in for Buster on Mythbusters for one episode.