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.

Purple Banana Reviewed by Purple Banana on 11-18-2007. When you die? Do you want to be buried in a traditional casket? Cremated? Donate your body to science? have your carcass dragged into the woods to be food for the animals? Dropped out of an airplane into the ocean so you can be fish food? Rating: 5

[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?