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Journal Em Emalb's Journal: Poll: What do you want done to your body when you die? 44

Journal by Em Emalb

A) fired into the sun.

B) buried in a coffin like normal.

C) cremated.

D) used as a cadaver.

E) cryogenically frozen

F) just put my head in a jar, I hear in the future they can bring me back to life as a talking head.

G) melted down with gold and made into a nice time piece.

H) roasted slowly over a spit, with lemons, sage, and a dash of paprika.

I) two chicks at the same time, dude.

J) still not enough options. I wish to bitch!

K) other

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Poll: What do you want done to your body when you die?

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  • Possibly D, but as much as I don't believe the body in required for anything after death, I'm still hesitant about being used for something.

    Cremation seems like the way to go. No storage issues... and you can still be buried & have a marker.

  • k) (Score:1)

    by wheany ( 460585 )
    Rip out anything that might be useful to someone, burn the rest.
  • then use the rest for med students-- preferably for crass, inapropriate humor. I wont be in it so I am not particularly interested. But I haven't been much use alive-- it would be nice if I could be after death.
  • Dunno. Not really my concern after that, is it? :^)
  • I want to be cremated since I am claustrophobic and can't stand the idea of being buried (even if I'm dead). For the same reason I don't want to be cremated in a crematorium: small enclosed space where they light a fire under your dead ass like it was Burger King.

    No, open flame. Fancy and it would be a funeral pyre. But I'd be fine with someone dousing me in gasoline and lighting a match. As long as there's open sky.
  • I don't see anything wrong with packing the dead on ice, shipping them to starving third world countries, ground up and made into hamburger or carved into steaks or whatever. Seriously, it's no use to me any more, let it feed the hungry. As long as the person didn't die of some infectious disease or something.

    I know it sounds sick, but it's a practical solution to hunger (don't get me started on the stores of produce the government stashes away and lets spoil).
    • Jonathan Swift would be proud. Except that this probably isn't satire. hehe.
      • Nice. I had to Google that one. Pretty funny. I am being 100% serious though. My plan has many advantages. Think about these:

        1. Funeral costs. Just give me a memorial service. I don't need to be there. And you don't need to bury me, so my family saves money on the burial too.

        2. Land conservation. By sticking less dead people in the ground, we have less need for land for cemetaries.

        3. Obvious feeding the hungry with a plentyful free food source.

        4. ???

        5. Profit!!! (sorry had to...)

        I know this sounds ver
  • i should be no more than 45 and they should be no more than 19
  • As long as they don't bury me alive like they gonna do Terri.
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  • I haven't thought about it. Don't think I really care. Kind of think it would be better for the people left behind to decide.

    And if I don't like what they decide, I'm going to come back and haunt their asses.
  • Thought I'd wish for them to use Basil, and kill anyone that attempts to use oregano on me.
    • You and your lack of Oregano. When you die, if i'm still alive i'm going to plant it all over your grave. If you don't have a grave, i'm going to build a giant statue of your eating oregano.

      You like it. Just admit it. Come on.
  • UNTERTAKER Morning.
    MAN Good morning.
    UNTERTAKER What can I do for you, squire?
    MAN Um, well, I wonder if you can help me. You see, my mother has just died.
    UNTERTAKER Ah well, we can help you. We deal with stiffs.
    MAN What?
    UNTERTAKER Well, there's three things we can do with your mum. We can bury her, burn her, or dump her.
    MAN Dump her?
    UNTERTAKER Dump her in the Thames.
    MAN What?
    UNTERTAKER Oh, did you like her?
    MAN Yes!
    UNTERTAKER Oh well, we won't dump her, then. Well, what do you think? We can bury her or burn h

  • K) (Score:2)

    by JVert ( 578547 )
    I want them to leave the tube in.

  • Floating on a wooden bed of pine tree branches, sowly drifting into the open sea, with a sword through my chest, entrenched in fine brandy, and a beautifull flying burning arrow heading for my direction..

    • I always wondered this:

      What happens if the archers miss?

      I mean, there you are, dead, covered in sticky liquor that you didn't even get to drink, a sword sticking out of your chest, and the bastards keep missing you.

      How fucked is that?

      I can see like 10 dudes frantically firing arrow after arrow, then getting another boat and rowing out after you with a lit torch.



      • I can see like 10 dudes frantically firing arrow after arrow, then getting another boat and rowing out after you with a lit torch.

        Much to my post mortum amusement.. the grin on my face will be even larger! :)
  • After taking out all the bits others can use. Then I want my autobiography published; first 100 copies get a free packet of my ashes. Which is probably about 90 more copies than will actually sell.

    If for some damn reason I can't do that with my ashes, I would prefer they be spread somewhere, perhaps over the ocean, or maybe over the property that my great-grandfather homesteaded.

  • it is the jedi tradition.
  • SOYLENT GREEN, baby!!
  • Left to rot wherever I am when I die because there's no one else left to dispose of the body.
  • No point in being frozen after you die - duh!
    You gotta be frozen just *before*!
    Then they can thaw you when they find a cure for whatever you were dying of.
  • I only hope I have the money. I want a crypt with a glass coffin. I want solar-powered internet access so that my relatives can rent out the back wall for advertising banners. I want it to be large enough for the next seven generations of my family.

  • I never have liked the Talking Heads. I thought the lead singer sucked.

  • And after I'm all ashes, I want to be mixed with concrete and made into a birdbath to be placed in a rose garden.

    ^_^

  • Put away your tongue and roll up your sleeve
    Pick up that shovel and bury me deep.

    Always thought I wanted to be cremated 'til I heard that song...

    And though I'm late, good to have you back, Em.

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