What are your plans for your body when you die? Burial, cremation, mosoleum, shot into space, etc? Also are you an organ donor? If no, why? minus the CF lung aspect, i'm an extremely healthy person. I'm an organ donor, so i'm pretty sure when I die they are going to strip me like a brand new cadillac parked over night in the ghetto (before the PC carebears start to cry, a ghetto is just a poor area, has nothing to do with race).
As for taking care of my corpse, i've seriously been considering taking part in this one scientific study for forensics. I saw a documentary where people donate their bodies to this organization, and they get you fully clothed like if you were walking around on the street, and they just drop you right on the lawn in the front/back yard, and then let you naturally decay. I must be pretty morbid, but when I watched the documentary and saw this research center with like 50 people just laying on the lawn like they were sleeping, I laughed to myself thinking "OMG how cool is that? I want to decay on someones lawn too!".
I'll more than likely die before those family members around me die, so I doubt they will let me take that path, not to mention my mother already bought me a family plot.
It's sad that we can't yet have our bodies shot out into space, I think that would be very cool too. Just imagine floating around in space for a hundred years or so, bumping into other dead people in space, and then the company that sent you there calculates how long you will float around until you inevitably reenter the atmosphere, and then they call your relatives and friends offspring so they can go outside and watch you reenter the atmosphere like a shooting star and put on a cool small firework display.
There are also quite a few books in large libraries in the USA that are bound in human skin (they all have their own stories how they got that way). I think it would be neat if after your organs were harvested for others to keep living, you could set aside a part of your skin, and decide just what book you want to be part of. I'd maybe get a tattoo on one of my buttcheeks that says "If you are reading this, you are touching my butt", and have that part used for say a book about germ paranoia. I also think it's lame we can't be stuffed like many people do their pets. How come I can stuff my beloved dog rex and not be stuffed myself, or stuff someone else? You could ease your emotional turmoil of someones passing by stuffing them and then arranging them in clothes and items and actions that they were most known for, which you would feel comforting that they were still around.
I dunno maybe i'm deranged, but these are just some of the silly things I think about.
So what are your "afterlife plans"? Are you an organ donor? why or why not?
As for taking care of my corpse, i've seriously been considering taking part in this one scientific study for forensics. I saw a documentary where people donate their bodies to this organization, and they get you fully clothed like if you were walking around on the street, and they just drop you right on the lawn in the front/back yard, and then let you naturally decay. I must be pretty morbid, but when I watched the documentary and saw this research center with like 50 people just laying on the lawn like they were sleeping, I laughed to myself thinking "OMG how cool is that? I want to decay on someones lawn too!".
I'll more than likely die before those family members around me die, so I doubt they will let me take that path, not to mention my mother already bought me a family plot.
It's sad that we can't yet have our bodies shot out into space, I think that would be very cool too. Just imagine floating around in space for a hundred years or so, bumping into other dead people in space, and then the company that sent you there calculates how long you will float around until you inevitably reenter the atmosphere, and then they call your relatives and friends offspring so they can go outside and watch you reenter the atmosphere like a shooting star and put on a cool small firework display.
There are also quite a few books in large libraries in the USA that are bound in human skin (they all have their own stories how they got that way). I think it would be neat if after your organs were harvested for others to keep living, you could set aside a part of your skin, and decide just what book you want to be part of. I'd maybe get a tattoo on one of my buttcheeks that says "If you are reading this, you are touching my butt", and have that part used for say a book about germ paranoia. I also think it's lame we can't be stuffed like many people do their pets. How come I can stuff my beloved dog rex and not be stuffed myself, or stuff someone else? You could ease your emotional turmoil of someones passing by stuffing them and then arranging them in clothes and items and actions that they were most known for, which you would feel comforting that they were still around.
I dunno maybe i'm deranged, but these are just some of the silly things I think about.
So what are your "afterlife plans"? Are you an organ donor? why or why not?