When you die?

[Purple Banana]

I want to go through a tissue digestor, be broken down into biodegradable elements, and become fertilizer for a beech tree. I read about it in the book Stiff by Mary Roach- It doesn't produce any harmful byproducts, takes less than a day, and it's relatively inexpensive.

[slipknotpsycho]

for all i care, once i'm dead you use my body as a toilet....

not like i'll be needing it anytime soon anyways....

[anun]

already donated mine to living legacy foundation.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

I want my organs donated to those who need transplants, and perhapse in the pursuit of science. Absolutely anything and everything they can use.

Then, I want my remains burried on a giant secoya (sp?) sapling. I'll be aborbed by the tree, become a part of it, and live on as a gian secoya for another 2,000 years!

That's right, I'm gonna cling on to life with everything I've got! Not very buddhist of me, especially for a buddhist (lol), but pure enlightenment isn't my goal. And when it comes right down to it, I thirst for the expansion of knowledge, for new experiences, to continue to expand and grow and influence this world for the better in any way I can. In that sense, what use is it being dead?

[rebgirl420]

I want to be buried in a (spelling?) mausoleum.

NOT THE GROUND.

NO CREMATION.

NO ONE GETS ANY OF MY ORGANS.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

NO ONE GETS ANY OF MY ORGANS.[/COLOR]

That's nice. Several people could be saved by transplants of your organs, science could be furthered... but you want them for your dead body?

[rebgirl420]

1) I had cancer and I don't think anyone CAN have them.

2) It may be selfish but I don't want anyone having my eyes or lungs or anything for that matter. Ick. Their mine. UNLESS its for my children or my husband.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

But Rebgirl, seriously.... "ick"? is "ick" more important than saving lives and furthering medicine?

[rebgirl420]

I just don't feel comfortable having my body sliced open, even when i'm dead. It just freaks me out. Ive had enough pokes and slices already, no more.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

If you feel you can't move past that phobia then I suppose you will be stuck on that standpoint. I don't blame you, a psychological barriers of any type can be a real bitch, I know. But maybe consider trying to cure this one, because you could benefit a lot of people.


btw if you don't mind me asking reb, what kind of cancer did you have?