Dead And Gone

[Wacco]

What's gonna happen to your carcass once you're no longer using it?

Me, I'm off to Harvard Medical School. If someone can learn from me, dead or alive, I'm more than happy to teach. No memorial service, no funeral, nothing. Just off to school, then when they're done, burn me up, then off to an unmarked grave that the school uses.

My second choice would have been The Body Farm in TN. It's a place that teaches forensics. Bodies or left to decompose in various conditions. Among others, there is car trunks, water, rolled in carpet, shallow grave... You get the idea.

Then there is:

"Well I ain't afraid of die'n,It's the though of being dead
I wanna go on being me once my eulogys been read
Don't spread my ashes out to sea, don't lay me down to rest
You can put my mind to ease if you fill my last request

Prop me up beside the jukebox when I die
Lord I wanna go to heaven but I don't wanna go tonight
Fill my boots up with sand, put a stiff drink in my hand
prop me up beside the jukebox when I die

Just make your next selection and while your still in line
You can pay you last respects one quarter at a time"

 

[Shooter]

What about Body Worlds. Great Exhibit if one comes to a town near you.

 

[smokelaw1]

In my younger more morbid days, I told my best friend that when I died, I wanted to donate my body to whoever wants to learn to throw knives or hatchets effectively against human targets...man I was a weird kid.

Alternatively, when I die, I want to be launched into space naked...on the infinitesmly small chance that some astronaut would some day run across my carcass and be like "What the hell?"

 

[bfreebern]

This would be cool:

Eternal Reef

 

[grateful1]

Steal your face right off your head!

 

[Sandalwood]

Rumor has it around here that The Body Farm will pay you for the promise of your corpse (and the best part is that payment takes place pre-mortem!). I can't say that I haven't considered it.

 

[PuroEsq]

Rumor has it around here that The Body Farm will pay you for the promise of your corpse (and the best part is that payment takes place pre-mortem!). I can't say that I haven't considered it.

Interesting thought here.

You "agree" to give them your corpse when you are gone. They send you $$$. Sometime after your "agreement" with them you decide to have something else done when you are gone. You memorialize this as a codocil to your will directing your heirs what to do with your corpse when you die. Body Farm has paid but gets no money since you have effectively cancelled the "contract" you had with them. They of course will want their $$$ back which will most likely be deducted from your estate.

You get the money and then give it back when you die. Nice no interest loan from the Body Farm. ????

 

[Swissy]

I'm going to be cremated, and the ashes loaded into shotgun shells. then my friends (if I still have any) will go bird hunting, skeet shooting or just have an old fashioned shootout with me.

:laugh:

 

[Swifty]

Donate anything usefull to anyone who needs it then burn the rest.

I think John Prine said it best:



Please dont bury me
Down in that cold cold ground
No, Id druther have em cut me up
And pass me all around
Throw my brain in a hurricane
And the blind can have my eyes
And the deaf can take both of my ears
If they dont mind the size
Give my stomach to milwaukee
If they run out of beer
Put my socks in a cedar box
Just get em out of here
Venus de milo can have my arms
Look out! Ive got your nose
Sell my heart to the junkman
And give my love to rose

Give my feet to the footloose
Careless, fancy free
Give my knees to the needy
Dont pull that stuff on me
Hand me down my walking cane
Its a sin to tell a lie
Send my mouth way down south
And kiss my ass goodbye

 

[nfulton]

Not that I am a tree-hugger, but I am going to have a "green" burial. You are buried in a forest in a pine box under a sappling. As you decay you feed the tree. I would rather see a forest than a graveyard anyday. However, my six year old tell me that all that would grow on top of me is poison ivy or a cactus!

 

[NullSmurf]

I'm going to be cremated, and the ashes loaded into shotgun shells. then my friends (if I still have any) will go bird hunting, skeet shooting or just have an old fashioned shootout with me.

:laugh:

On that theme, toast me and have a submarine of the line shoot me out of a torpedo (or missile) tube.

 

[bigvinnysd]

Actually funny story thats only half related to this topic:

In high school in our AP Biology class we were one of the only high schools in the nation to have a human cadaver to work on. We got the bodies from a department at San Diego State University, and so my teacher had to drive down to San Diego and pick up the body personally and put it in her van. Now, San Diegans will know this, there is a psuedo border checkpoint in San Onofre on the 5 freeway, and occasionally they'll do trunk checks, and it just so happened that she got stopped.... Fortunately she had all her paperwork but the patrolmen were all shaking their heads...


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