Who cares if they eat me? I’m dead and the horror show is over.
I know somebody who ran with a kind of rough crowd. About a month after he was buried a few friends went to go pay respects to his grave. The place had all kinds of full liquor bottles left, and there were many empty beer cans nearby.
One person said, “Why all the alcohol, he wasn’t a big drinker.”
The other person said, “Yeah but his friends are.”
That stayed with me as a very no frills kind connection people had.
I plan on having a cremation, no religious ceremony, and then about $5,000 towards one big buffet with lots of food and non alcoholic drinks. If people want to say or do stuff, let em. Otherwise they can all have a fun get together and some food on me.
I had an elderly old friend of mine years ago put it to me this way …
I really don’t care what you guys do, you know why? I won’t be there.
My father just passed in January. He was adamant that we not have a funeral for him. He said there was no point in wasting all that money to shove his body in a hole and leave it there. Instead, he signed up to donate his body to science. As soon as he passed, I called a phone number on a card in his wallet and they came and claimed his body. That was it. Whenever they finish whatever research they’re doing, they’ll cremate his remains and return them.
He said, if we really wanted, we could hold a “celebration of life” for him. Just a small barbeque with friend and family to remember him by. He just asked that his favorite beer was left sitting at an empty chair for him.
John Oliver did an episode about body donations. I suggest a watch.
I actually wouldn’t suggest this episode to someone whose father’s body is currently donated. But good episode nonetheless
Yeah, I understand, and did consider that. But… it’s better to be aware, surely, so there’s something to be done.
I seriously considered not posting it, but… decided to anyway.
I find myself wondering about the lives of the corpse-collectors you called. It’s clearly too menial a task for researchers, but someone’s gotta do it…
Back in the bad old days, doctors and med students would outright go rob a grave in the dead of night to get materials. I think it’s better for everyone this way that “corpse collector” is a paid profession.
Honestly, I would love to be eaten after my organs were harvested.
Help people one last time, you know? It’s also symbolic because part of me will live on through them.
#legalizeCannibalism
Prion gang represent
All I’m saying, as a human, is that me and my fellow humans don’t need the nanny state telling us what to do. You should do your own research. Humans don’t need a nanny state telling them they can’t consume uncooked portions of human brains; they should be able to decide for themselves.
Ah. So should we also remove warning labels from things and let people figure it out on their own?
Oh, no. If anything, we should put up more warning labels. Warning labels for scissors, knives, ovens. Just no warning labels for non-cooked meat. After all, food gives us life. How could it be harmful?
Fire burns and destroys valuable nutrients.
Consume the raw meat, human.
Funnily enough, some prions like those responsible for CWD will not be killed via cooking, but the infected material has to be incinerated to get rid of it.
I’d actually be honoured of my meat (and there is some amount of it) doesn’t go to waste. Is live to have a sky burial,but I guess i can forget it with our laws. Then again, what do I care what happens with my ballast when I’m gone.
