Hello all,
An interesting article:
What do you want to do when you're dead?
http://www.iflscience.com/environment/w ... ce-edition
With metta,
Chris
What do you want to do when you're dead?
What do you want to do when you're dead?
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
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Re: What do you want to do when you're dead?
Chill...until the meds can use anything...or everything...
Re: What do you want to do when you're dead?
Push up flowers, obviously.cooran wrote:What do you want to do when you're dead?
Hic Rhodus, hic salta!
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Re: What do you want to do when you're dead?
I'd like to donate my body to a monastery, where they'd watch it decay, like this woman at the monastery I'm staying at now, Tham Yai Prik, on Ko Sichang.
They built a perspex box and a special building so it didn't stink the place out so bad.
It's pretty horrible, sobering. Still smelly.
They built a perspex box and a special building so it didn't stink the place out so bad.
It's pretty horrible, sobering. Still smelly.
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Then,
saturated with joy,
you will put an end to suffering and stress.
SN 9.11
saturated with joy,
you will put an end to suffering and stress.
SN 9.11
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Re: What do you want to do when you're dead?
Ooh that picture turned out big and could perhaps shock small conservative sheltered children or those who prefer to avoid the reality of death...
Should I not have attached it?
Apologies.
Should I not have attached it?
Apologies.
Then,
saturated with joy,
you will put an end to suffering and stress.
SN 9.11
saturated with joy,
you will put an end to suffering and stress.
SN 9.11
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Re: What do you want to do when you're dead?
Don't worry about it.James the Giant wrote:Ooh that picture turned out big and could perhaps shock small conservative sheltered children or those who prefer to avoid the reality of death...
Should I not have attached it?
Apologies.
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
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Re: What do you want to do when you're dead?
Thanks, I've not read the TOS recently so I wasn't sure.
They have a brush in the room, so you can sweep the floor clean of corpse-dust before you sit to meditate.
Strong medicine!
They have a brush in the room, so you can sweep the floor clean of corpse-dust before you sit to meditate.
Strong medicine!
Then,
saturated with joy,
you will put an end to suffering and stress.
SN 9.11
saturated with joy,
you will put an end to suffering and stress.
SN 9.11
Re: What do you want to do when you're dead?
Good idea, Bhante!appicchato wrote:Chill...until the meds can use anything...or everything...
This is Australia's Register of Organ Donors - I am sure most countries would have something similar:
http://www.humanservices.gov.au/custome ... r-register
With metta,
Chris
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
Re: What do you want to do when you're dead?
The picture doesn't smellJames the Giant wrote: Should I not have attached it?
I think in this age of the Internet, shocking smells cause more offense than shocking images.
quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur
(Anything in Latin sounds profound.)
(Anything in Latin sounds profound.)
Re: What do you want to do when you're dead?
Strange coincidence. I just opened this post while my five year old daughter and three year old son were looking at the screen, wondering what Daddy was watching. They were both mildly interested in the picture, and wondered why someone had put the lady in the box. They both thought she had a funny name: "Is she from a foreign country?"James the Giant wrote:Ooh that picture turned out big and could perhaps shock small conservative sheltered children or those who prefer to avoid the reality of death...
Should I not have attached it?
Apologies.
Re: What do you want to do when you're dead?
Aww I thought this was gonna be a sort of 'pick your dream afterlife' thread (kinda like 'design your dream home' or whatever). Possibly I'm on the wrong board right now . . .
Anyway, organs etc. to anyone who can use them, and then whatever means of disposing of the rest is cheap and environmentally sound at the time.
Anyway, organs etc. to anyone who can use them, and then whatever means of disposing of the rest is cheap and environmentally sound at the time.
Re: What do you want to do when you're dead?
Sounds good to me, but I have to add that I was impressed by the variety of possibilities they listed.Feathers wrote: ... organs etc. to anyone who can use them, and then whatever means of disposing of the rest is cheap and environmentally sound at the time.
Freeze-drying to turn the body into soil nutrients without going through the not-so-nice smelly decomposition was a new one to me. I don't know if it's worth the extra effort, though - no-one is normally going to be bothered by what happens inside the coffin.
By the way, shooting remains into space does not count as "environmentally friendly" when you think of how much fuel it takes to lift stuff into orbit.
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Re: What do you want to do when you're dead?
I would like one of those Viking funerals where you get put on a boat and they shoot arrows to set it alight. But it probably wouldn't be allowed due to Health and Safety.
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Re: What do you want to do when you're dead?
James the Giant,
A very poignant image there... even my 2-year-old daughter noticed the image and clearly equated it to a person, pointing, gasping, and exclaiming "Oh no! Oh no!"
Definitely something to think about -- I don't think I know anyone who has ever seen a decomposing body before. I have to wonder if displaying one in that manner would even be legal in many places in the U.S.
A very poignant image there... even my 2-year-old daughter noticed the image and clearly equated it to a person, pointing, gasping, and exclaiming "Oh no! Oh no!"
Definitely something to think about -- I don't think I know anyone who has ever seen a decomposing body before. I have to wonder if displaying one in that manner would even be legal in many places in the U.S.
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Re: What do you want to do when you're dead?
When I was a teenager, I fancifully thought that I'd like to give my body to be used for pet-food when I died !
....Canned Aloka.
....Canned Aloka.