What do you want to do when you're dead?

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What do you want to do when you're dead?

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Hello all,

An interesting article:

What do you want to do when you're dead?
http://www.iflscience.com/environment/w ... ce-edition

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Chill...until the meds can use anything...or everything... :pig:
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cooran wrote:What do you want to do when you're dead?
Push up flowers, obviously.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Don't worry about it.
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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.
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appicchato wrote:Chill...until the meds can use anything...or everything... :pig:
Good idea, Bhante!

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

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James the Giant wrote: Should I not have attached it?
The picture doesn't smell :P

I think in this age of the Internet, shocking smells cause more offense than shocking images.
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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.
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?"
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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.
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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.
Sounds good to me, but I have to add that I was impressed by the variety of possibilities they listed.
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. :tongue:
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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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. :jumping:
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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.

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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. :)
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