will you donate your body after you die

[Einherjer]

Will you?

 

[Iskanderia]

Of course I will. Why would anyone say no? I don't get it.

 

[flowersofnight]

No, my body is not better as a leftover.

 

[Einherjer]

Someone had said they wouldn't want their cause of death made public so I was inspired to ask this question. If you're dead, why do you care?

 

[Iskanderia]

When my father-in-law died recently, my mother-in-law insisted on getting the most expensive casket they had ($15,000), the most expensive plot in the nicest cemetery in the area ($10,000) and a $5000 headstone, because she said "he's worth it."

Dummy, he's dead. He doesn't care if his coffin is solid mahogany.


Okay, that was off-topic, but this just made me think of that.

 

[Berserk]

^^Yeah, I agree.

It's selfish and irrational of me, but I'd rather not be divvied up and used in hospitals and laboratories after I die. I know donating yourself is a good thing to do and can save lives, but there's this little superstitious part of me that feels desecrated by the thought somehow.

Of course a traditional casket and headstone is a terrible idea. I'd rather have a shallow burial in a designated area of wilderness to just rot the way you're supposed to and feed the wildlife. Maybe I could have a little memorial plaque made for the family or something, but no headstone for me!

(I voted "maybe")

 

[flowersofnight]

When my father-in-law died recently, my mother-in-law insisted on getting the most expensive casket they had ($15,000), the most expensive plot in the nicest cemetery in the area ($10,000) and a $5000 headstone, because she said "he's worth it."

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[PureElegance]

When my father-in-law died recently, my mother-in-law insisted on getting the most expensive casket they had ($15,000), the most expensive plot in the nicest cemetery in the area ($10,000) and a $5000 headstone, because she said "he's worth it."

Well for the ULTIMATE in post-mortal accomodations, you can get our deluxe " 'Abandoned' Mausoleum" plan! We have a full assortment of cobwebs, mosses, and lichens to choose from, and our specially trained staff of grizzled old-timers will regale passers-by with eerie tales of unexplained goings-on in the vicinity!
Prices available on request.

OMG the old timers XDDDD *remembers Willie opening Barnabas' tomb and the old man*

I'm getting one of them, definitely.

 

[Iskanderia]

When my father-in-law died recently, my mother-in-law insisted on getting the most expensive casket they had ($15,000), the most expensive plot in the nicest cemetery in the area ($10,000) and a $5000 headstone, because she said "he's worth it."

Well for the ULTIMATE in post-mortal accomodations, you can get our deluxe " 'Abandoned' Mausoleum" plan! We have a full assortment of cobwebs, mosses, and lichens to choose from, and our specially trained staff of grizzled old-timers will regale passers-by with eerie tales of unexplained goings-on in the vicinity!
Prices available on request.

You gotta quit reading so much Lovecraft.

 

[Lem]

When my father-in-law died recently, my mother-in-law insisted on getting the most expensive casket they had ($15,000), the most expensive plot in the nicest cemetery in the area ($10,000) and a $5000 headstone, because she said "he's worth it."

Well for the ULTIMATE in post-mortal accomodations, you can get our deluxe " 'Abandoned' Mausoleum" plan! We have a full assortment of cobwebs, mosses, and lichens to choose from, and our specially trained staff of grizzled old-timers will regale passers-by with eerie tales of unexplained goings-on in the vicinity!
Prices available on request.

I'll take it!

Anywho, I don't care if my body is donated. Especially if my organs can help another person.

 

[navate]

I know donating yourself is a good thing to do and can save lives, but there's this little superstitious part of me that feels desecrated by the thought somehow.

I don't get this. How is slowly being eaten by worms or being burned into cinders any more dignified?


I'm donating everything. Dead is dead. The least I can do is make myself useful. My preference goes to organ transplants (saving lives from the afterlife? yesplz.) but scientific research is just as dandy.

 

[Amatsu]

I voted no, because I'm never gonna die.

 

[Jae]

Yes! I want to be able to help those in need once I die.

It would be even cooler if my body was going to be used for the 'Bodies' exhibit!

I saw it in person in Las Vegas and it was truly amazing.

 

[Garnet in the Eden]

Let my family decide what they want to do with my body after I'm dead because I don't want to think about it.

 

[Requiem Dreams]

I'd donate my body if it would help another person, but I probably wouldn't for science. That's a little too strange. I don't want a bunch of students oogling my insides.

 

[Carolina Ag]

I think I'll. Some times I think about it and I'll not need this body more...

 

[Haus der Lüge]

I have no problem with my body being reused.

 

[Mademoiselle Folie]

yesterday i was talking with my mum about this once again. I'm the kind of person that finds "ridiculous" to spent loads of money on a corpse with no life. I think, if i have descendance or anywho that's there when i'm leaving the world, i'lll ask to do whatever that doesn't bring troubles with my body. The mos, i think donate my body for science is the better choice cause in this way you can make yr flesh,bones and all the rest usable to seomething else than decaying inside a expensive coffin uderground or incinerating in a crematory. I'm definitively pro-donating the body to science and you can bet this will be my very last will.

I won't do it with my relatives if they die only in case they wanted to do it, cause all the mornful ceremony stuff seems to be importan to all of them.

 

[Han'i]

I wanna be stuffed and put on display, but I think that's illegal.

 

[Berserk]

I know donating yourself is a good thing to do and can save lives, but there's this little superstitious part of me that feels desecrated by the thought somehow.

I don't get this. How is slowly being eaten by worms or being burned into cinders any more dignified?

There's something wholesome about returning to the soil, okay? It's playing your part in the circle of life

I'm donating everything. Dead is dead.

I know that's true, I guess I'm just not so pragmatic about things XD