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I think this is so neat
- Thread starter Seana30
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thelizardqueen
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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>Momtana</b></i>
Someone mentioned organ donation ... are people with CF OK to be organ donors?</end quote></div>
I plan on donating my lungs, pancrease, kidneys & liver to research when I die.
Someone mentioned organ donation ... are people with CF OK to be organ donors?</end quote></div>
I plan on donating my lungs, pancrease, kidneys & liver to research when I die.
I saw a documentary about this once. It showed many different things you can do with your loved ones remains. For instance, it did talk about the diamonds and the process. There was a company that took the ashes, along with other people ashes, and imbedded it into a porous material that would be placed in the ocean where it would turn into a coral reef--perfect for someone that liked the marine world. You can also have your remains placed in a small capsule that would be sent off to space. They only could launch it into space once every year or two (it is sent up with a routine satellite and then released. There was even a ceremony on launch day that the loved ones would attend, it didn't seem morbid at all, it was very moving. Cremation is not for everyone, but I do think it offers some pretty unique ways to remember your loved ones.
I carry around my grandfather's chapstick, he was obssesed with it and used it on his knuckles as a lotion. He used it at least once an hour, and was even buried with a tube in his hands!! I pull it out and smell it when I want to think of him. It's weird, but it means a lot to me.
I carry around my grandfather's chapstick, he was obssesed with it and used it on his knuckles as a lotion. He used it at least once an hour, and was even buried with a tube in his hands!! I pull it out and smell it when I want to think of him. It's weird, but it means a lot to me.
blindhearted
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this is a very...uhm....unique idea. The pictures of the lifegems look very beautiful and like regular diamonds. but has others up here has put it, u are wearing someone's ashes, that is a little wierd. (and good lord did you see the prices to have this done?)
coltsfan715
New member
I guess I am in the minority in that I would wear something made of a loved one if it was given to me. Like Seana said it would be something that would remind you of that person and the good times. If I didn't wear it it would not be because I am freaked out, but more so I don't lose it. I have done that with a necklace and purple ice stone a friend gave me as a birthday gift when I was younger. She passed in a car accident and I couldn't bear the thought of losing something that she had given me right before that happened (my bday July 15th - her passing July 27th), so I keep it in a box and I always know where it is.
Neat idea though ... I haven't looked at the site but something I think is pretty cool and I would definitely do it - it beats being buried and eaten by bugs - now THAT is morbid lol (kidding - I know what Seana mentioned will not be for some/many).
Lindsey
Neat idea though ... I haven't looked at the site but something I think is pretty cool and I would definitely do it - it beats being buried and eaten by bugs - now THAT is morbid lol (kidding - I know what Seana mentioned will not be for some/many).
Lindsey
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fr3ak
Guest
speaking of cool things to do after your dead...<br>
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Plastination is something that has fascinated me since I first
heard of it....<br>
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Gunther Von Hagens was the first one to create the technique...<br>
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http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/pages/home.asp<br>
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you can also just do a google search of images by typing in Gunther
von hagens<br>
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now that is definitely something I would love done to my body once
Im dead!!!!<br>
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Plastination is something that has fascinated me since I first
heard of it....<br>
<br>
Gunther Von Hagens was the first one to create the technique...<br>
<br>
http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/pages/home.asp<br>
<br>
<br>
you can also just do a google search of images by typing in Gunther
von hagens<br>
<br>
<br>
now that is definitely something I would love done to my body once
Im dead!!!!<br>
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<br>
thelizardqueen
New member
That's creepy dude, but to each their own. I don't know if I could go to an exhibit that was of real human dead bodies like that.
Edited to add: I have bookmarked that page to show my bf, because I know that he'll get a kick out of it! LOL.
Edited to add: I have bookmarked that page to show my bf, because I know that he'll get a kick out of it! LOL.
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fr3ak
Guest
LOL lizardqueen, I agree it is creepy but in a very fascinating
way....he even has in his exhibit animals including a horse and
rider, which is just incredible<br>
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The other thing that fascinates me is where else can you get to see
inside a human body..I know he has in the exhibit smokers lungs
and normal lungs, often people see pictures etc, but theres
nothing like seeing it real!!!<br>
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wish I could have had my old lungs put up for exhibit LOL or
lungs of CFs were included<br>
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The exhibit hits brisbane aus in august I might just have to go
twice LOL<br>
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way....he even has in his exhibit animals including a horse and
rider, which is just incredible<br>
<br>
The other thing that fascinates me is where else can you get to see
inside a human body..I know he has in the exhibit smokers lungs
and normal lungs, often people see pictures etc, but theres
nothing like seeing it real!!!<br>
<br>
wish I could have had my old lungs put up for exhibit LOL or
lungs of CFs were included<br>
<br>
The exhibit hits brisbane aus in august I might just have to go
twice LOL<br>
<br>
thelizardqueen
New member
Cryogenics is definitly something I've thought a lot about, but my one concern is that they wouldn't be able to bring me back. Plus I think about my loved ones who may not be around once my disease has been cured and I'm unfrozen. Imagine being frozen for 50+ years and then waking up to knowing no one or recognizing anything around you.
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>Seana30</b></i>
Cryogenics makes me think of the Highlander eposide where he talks about the horrible thing about living hundreds of years is watching everyone you know and love die.
I would not want to wake up and know that all of my family is gone.
Seana</end quote></div>
Maybe you could request the scientists take out the sections of your brain responsible for love or memory, that way you wouldn't know or love anyone before you took the big freeze ya know?
Garyhairycheese
Cryogenics makes me think of the Highlander eposide where he talks about the horrible thing about living hundreds of years is watching everyone you know and love die.
I would not want to wake up and know that all of my family is gone.
Seana</end quote></div>
Maybe you could request the scientists take out the sections of your brain responsible for love or memory, that way you wouldn't know or love anyone before you took the big freeze ya know?
Garyhairycheese