THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: ToxicAdam on January 11, 2008, 02:12:17 PM
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Recently, I had to make out a will. The main issue, of course, being what happens to my boys in case the wife and I meet an untimely demise. A week later, we had to goto a wake for a parent of a family friend and it got me in a morbid mood.
On the way home from the wake, I told my wife that its creepy how we treat our dead. With one of my best friends being an undertaker, I probably know more about the preparation of the dead body than the average joe. I just think it's such a waste of time and money to pump the cadaver full of chemicals and then slap a coat of paint on the face so you can be on display for a few days. 80% of the time the body looks nothing like it did when it was alive. At best, it bears an uncanny resemblence to a partially deflated wax figure.
So, cremation. That's what want done to my corpse. Bury the ashes in the family plot (already paid for) and keep a bit for an urn in the house.
She was totally against the idea. She wants to see my body, she claims it will help her in the greiving process to be able to see my body in that state. It would help her deal with my death. Seeing a pile of ashes would not help her.
So, would it be sleazy to go behind her back and put in our will that I MUST be cremated and there will be no open-casket funeral/showing? Because that's what I am thinking of doing.
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Wakes are so weird. Why choose for cremation just because you don't want a wake. Just get buried immediately.
Oh and don't even get me started on cremation. Who the fuck wants to burn when they're dead? Oh yeah, people who want to be cremated ::)
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put me in a body bag and throw me in a hole (if that, because honestly i don't give a fuck)
wakes are creepy and no one would show up to mine
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You could always donate your body to science.
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You could always donate your body to science.
If I didn't want my body on display after death, why would I want some 24 year old using it as a practice dummy?
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i'm going to let the nanny state decide what to do with my corpse
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You could always donate your body to science.
If I didn't want my body on display after death, why would I want some 24 year old using it as a practice dummy?
Educating future doctors? I don't know maybe doing something selfless would be a greater motivation?
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i'm going to let the nanny state decide what to do with my corpse
it'll be used to feed the young
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i'm going to let the nanny state decide what to do with my corpse
it'll be used to feed the young
oh the irony. my whole life i've been told to not put my dick in kids and the second i die, it will be ground up and served to them anyway.
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I'm not letting my corpse become Smooth Groove's fucktoy, that is for sure.
if you're still a body, i'll rape you
if you're a pile of ashes, i'll spread my seed on you
either way you're FUCKED, so die already and let me have my fun
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i'm going to let the nanny state decide what to do with my corpse
it'll be used to feed the young
oh the irony. my whole life i've been told to not put my dick in kids and the second i die, it will be ground up and served to them anyway.
:lol :lol :lol :lol
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I'm not letting my corpse become Smooth Groove's fucktoy, that is for sure.
:lol :lol :lol
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Recently, I had to make out a will. The main issue, of course, being what happens to my boys in case the wife and I meet an untimely demise. A week later, we had to goto a wake for a parent of a family friend and it got me in a morbid mood.
On the way home from the wake, I told my wife that its creepy how we treat our dead. With one of my best friends being an undertaker, I probably know more about the preparation of the dead body than the average joe. I just think it's such a waste of time and money to pump the cadaver full of chemicals and then slap a coat of paint on the face so you can be on display for a few days. 80% of the time the body looks nothing like it did when it was alive. At best, it bears an uncanny resemblence to a partially deflated wax figure.
So, cremation. That's what want done to my corpse. Bury the ashes in the family plot (already paid for) and keep a bit for an urn in the house.
She was totally against the idea. She wants to see my body, she claims it will help her in the greiving process to be able to see my body in that state. It would help her deal with my death. Seeing a pile of ashes would not help her.
So, would it be sleazy to go behind her back and put in our will that I MUST be cremated and there will be no open-casket funeral/showing? Because that's what I am thinking of doing.
How old are you if you don't mind me asking?
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I want my corpse to be carried around by a couple of 20 something dudes in hawaii looking for chicks and a good time
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Educating future doctors? I don't know maybe doing something selfless would be a greater motivation?
Don't you see what my tag says?!
How old are you if you don't mind me asking?
32
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i'm going to let the nanny state decide what to do with my corpse
Pretty much. The funerary industry is possibly even more exploitative (and arguably more inclusive) than the terrible US medical establishment. I won't give those people money. Body gets donated to science, or put in a hefty bag and dropped in the everglades. Fuck religious bullshit, and fuck the funerary industry that exploits people at their WEAKEST.
DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY. Those people are less moral and more exploitative than drug dealers.
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I want my corpse to be carried around by a couple of 20 something dudes in hawaii looking for chicks and a good time
yessir
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I definitely want to be cremated. There just isn't enough space to keep burying dead bodies.
I've been thinking about donating my body to science and then having it cremated later, but I'm an organ donor and I don't know if my body would even be useful for science after most of my organs are gone.
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I definitely want to be cremated. There just isn't enough space to keep burying dead bodies.
I've been thinking about donating my body to science and then having it cremated later, but I'm an organ donor and I don't know if my body would even be useful for science after most of my organs are gone.
Human bodies are eminently biodegradable, which is why we aren't walking around on great big piles of them already. And graveyards get recycled every 100 years or so. No human corpse really takes up much of the planet. Burial is the most efficient recycling mechanism we're ever likely to come up with. And it gives the family something to go visit.