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What do you want done with your corpse?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Dubious, Aug 6, 2005.

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What do you want done with your corpse?

  1. Traditional embalming and burial in a casket (ground or mausoleum)

    44 vote(s)
    35.2%

  2. Cremation and a symbolic gesture with your ashes

    46 vote(s)
    36.8%

  3. Green Burial, no embalming, planted under a tree with no marker

    15 vote(s)
    12.0%

  4. Donated to science (med school dissection)

    9 vote(s)
    7.2%

  5. Other

    11 vote(s)
    8.8%
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  1. Dubious

    Dubious Member

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    What do you want done with your corpse?
     
    #1 Dubious, Aug 6, 2005
  2. HOOP-T

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    That's an open ended question. Let the ridiculousness begin.
     
    #2 HOOP-T, Aug 6, 2005
  3. Mr. Brightside

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    I want some hot chick to take advantage of me when I'm dead.
     
    #3 Mr. Brightside, Aug 6, 2005
  4. m_cable

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    Definitely Cremation. Then I was it released out of an airplane into the Jet Stream so my remains can be spread out across the entire world.
     
    #4 m_cable, Aug 6, 2005
  5. KingCheetah

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    #5 KingCheetah, Aug 6, 2005
  6. Rockets2K

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    Dropped from 35.000 feet over the Toyota Center.
     
    #6 Rockets2K, Aug 6, 2005
  7. Ubiquitin

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    Green burial, I would love for my life to further a new life.
     
    #7 Ubiquitin, Aug 6, 2005
  8. Another Brother

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    Buried in a borrowed tomb and in three days hope for the best.
     
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  9. Isabel

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    :eek: We now have a winner for "most morbid poll."

    Maybe I'm selfish, but I'd like some sort of traditional burial so they could put up a marker in case anyone wanted to remember me, and I wouldn't be totally forgotten. Make it a pine box, though. None of those pretty new plastic ones. The natural decay process is not allowed to take place in those, and the anaerobic bacteria take over instead... it liquefies... if anyone ever has to exhume, it's not pretty...
     
    #9 Isabel, Aug 6, 2005
  10. MadMax

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    don't care...will only be important to those i leave behind.
     
    #10 MadMax, Aug 6, 2005
  11. Jeff

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    Creamation
     
    #11 Jeff, Aug 6, 2005
  12. Kam

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    I was actually thinking about this yesterday afternoon at lunch.

    I was thinking of creamation, but not immediately.

    I guess it depends on how I die.

    If I die in a young/mysterious way, I want them to keep my body, so they can run an autopsy on it. But maybe after twenty years or so, they can creamate me, and spread a few of my ashes around the Houston area, and the rest, I haven't figured out what I would do.
     
    #12 Kam, Aug 6, 2005
  13. chow_yun_fat

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    I want people to pig out on my remains. I think some bw3 hot bbq will make me edible. :)
     
    #13 chow_yun_fat, Aug 6, 2005
  14. PhiSlammaJamma

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    Burial by Great White. Long after the flesh peel off my bones they will encircle the latitudes and longiyudes of the globe inside the chewy cartilage of a predator. Until at last, the predator dies, and my bones sink fifteen thousand feet to the ocean floor. And there they rest in a dune of wet sand, compressed beneath the weight of the world. A license plate lays nearby. 3 billion years later The land masses will shift and my broken limbs will limp to the surface. Dug up and discovered by a new species more interested in me than I would be of them. So now I hang, a bag of bones, that traveled the earth in life, and in death, for all to see. Above me, the license plate hangs, as if a title, it reads,
    [​IMG]
     
    #14 PhiSlammaJamma, Aug 6, 2005
  15. drapg

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    I want to be cremated and thrown in the trash.

    seriously.
     
    #15 drapg, Aug 6, 2005
  16. leehoang

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    I'm not voting.
     
    #16 leehoang, Aug 6, 2005
  17. rvpals

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    I think a good idea will be to donate your organs to help as many as possible.
     
    #17 rvpals, Aug 6, 2005
  18. BabyClutch

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    I was actually just thinkin bout this earlier cuz I heard you can get your corpse and ashes sent into space or something. That sounds cool..
     
    #18 BabyClutch, Aug 6, 2005
  19. ddly_tng

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    Wow I've never heard of a "Green Burial" until now but it totally fits me. It seems so serene and peaceful.

    And it'll be cheap. :)

    It would also be an added bonus if I was exhumed somehow and scared the bejezus out of some unexpecting new property owners.
     
    #19 ddly_tng, Aug 6, 2005
  20. rodrick_98

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    i want to be frozen, and brought back when they figure out how to do it. i would be fine with donating my organs, just leave me my head/brain.
     
    #20 rodrick_98, Aug 6, 2005
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