How You Going Out?

“I am. It's important though, that your family knows of your wishes, because in a lot of states, they do have the final say, regardless of your organ donor card.

I instructed my wife to let them take out everything usable, and to burn the rest.
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“I'm not going to that chop shop.”

“I'm an organ donor, but my family thinks it's gross and tells me I won't know what they do, cause I'll be dead...I've sworn to come back and make them miserable if they put me in a box in the ground...”

“yeah well....everything is gross...it's gross to get eaten up by magots. It's not "fun" to get burned, and its' no fun to get chopped up.

At least I am doing something useful after i am dead huh.

They more I think about it, the more I realize that I am worrying way too much about what happens after I am dead.”

“Actually,
Funerals are for the living, not for the dead-- after people pass away, they don't have much say in the matter... LOL”

“well yeah, but I hope the living will honor our wishes. If they don't...well #&%!$, I will come back and haunt them. Count on it dammit!”

“Who wants to go on a TT trip after death?”

“oh, oh...I do, i do, i do!!!”

“Where do we sign up?!”

“Well... first off I'm not ever going to die. But if I did, I'd do Hunter S Thompson one better and have my corpse shot out of a cannon, not just the ashes.

BOOM... THUMP!”

“You could always be composted:


A town in Sweden plans to become the first place in the world where corpses will be disposed of by freeze-drying, as an environmentally friendly alternative to cremation or burial. Jonkoping, in southern Sweden, is to turn its crematorium into a so-called promatorium next year.

Swedes will then have the chance to bury their dead according to the pioneering method, which involves freezing the body, dipping it in liquid nitrogen and gently vibrating it to shatter it into powder. This is put into a small box made of potato or corn starch and placed in a shallow grave, where it will disintegrate within six to 12 months.

People are to be encouraged to plant a tree on the grave. It would feed off the compost formed from the body, to emphasise the organic cycle of life.

The national burial law is currently being updated to accommodate a practice that is expected to spread across the country over the next few years.

The technique was conceived by a Swedish biologist, Susanne Wiigh-Masak, 49, who said: "Mulching was nature's original plan for us, and that's what used to happen to us at the start of humanity - we went back into the soil.

"But we need to tell people in this day and age that this can once again be a dignified and comfortable option." According to Mrs Wiigh-Masak's method, which she has called "promession" - the promise to return to the earth what emerged from the earth - the dead body is frozen and dried, using liquid nitrogen.

A mechanical vibration then causes the body to fall apart within 60 seconds before a vacuum removes the water.

Then a metal separator picks out metals such as artificial hips and dental fillings.

Jonkoping's motivation for converting its crematorium into a promatorium is mainly practical. According to European environmental laws, it faced a multi-million pound bill for the installation at its 50-year-old crematorium of a new gas-cleaning system and furnace.

The alternative was the much cheaper conversion and a more environmentally friendly procedure.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/28/wfreez28.xml”

“how many of you are signed up as organ donors?

They can have whatever they want and its on my license. Gem you know EMS would still save ya right?”

“...bury their dead according to the pioneering method, which involves freezing the body, dipping it in liquid nitrogen and gently vibrating it to shatter it into powder.

did the pioneers even have liquid nitrogen??...how would you go about freezing a body in the middle of summer in pioneer times?”

“Gem you know EMS would still save ya right?”
Carlette
1:32:28 PM
9/29/05
ignore this user

I didn't know their return policy covered people too.”

“If your talking how I want to die, then....When I feel I'm ready to go I'd like to climb a mountain and freeze to death, maybe McKinley. I'll prop up my arm so that I can high-five everyone as they climb past.:)

One thing is for sure, it won't be in a retirement home.

If your talking after I'm dead....I'd want to be cremated and my ashes scattered with Birches on Isle Royale.”

“.....life's journey is is not to arrive at the gate in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, "Holy #&%!$....what a ride!...."”

“Instead of going to all that effort with the liquid nitrogen, etc., maybe I'll just have BowlderGal drop me into our composting bin. It might take a while, but then she can just add me to the mulch around the plants in the front yard!”

“Carlette...hahahahaa....EMS? LOL LZ.

Okay...one thing I know for sure!! I will not be frozen, not my whole body, nor by head. ewww..... gross!!! If I am dead, I am dead. I'll keep it that way.”

“LOL..Emergency Medical Services....”

“How am I going out?

On the Path! ;-D”

“sleeping soundly behind the wheel while everyone else is screaming their heads off”

“Ewker, you are too freakin funny, LMAO.

Oh and that kisses on the lips thing along with pictures, I had to catch my breath after I read it!!!! Technically, there is nothing wrong with it, but it just lacks some appeal to me for some reason, lol:)

Bitpusher is so right. You can't tell enough people or have it written down in enough places how you want to be sent off. I totally agree, especially in my case where my husband is already balking at putting my tiny chihuahua in my casket with me. He has longevity in his family and is 6 years younger than me, so if nothing strange happens, most likely I'll go first.

Too funny, but not funny, my husband is talking about putting my dog in cement. I don't know why, but there is no way he is digging up a cement block and breaking it open to retrieve my dead dog to bury her with me at that time. I can't see him going to Home Depot after I die in between selecting a coffin to rent out a jackhammer!!!!”

“pink, out of no disrespect to you or the way you choose to remember your deceased family, I still don't understand why a person would want to take pictures of someone who is dead and doesn't look the same as when they were alive. I mean, everyone usually has tons of pictures if even just a few of a person where those pictures would not be necessary.

I'm just asking because I can't seem to get a grasp on the concept of picture taking.

For the record, when my step father-in-law died suddenly at 59 years of age, he looked so lifelike in his coffin it was quite incredible. I don't know if it was because he was still fairly young or did not have a disease that had left it's mark on him. He just dropped dead on the street. He really did look like he was resting.”

“Lipstick--
I'm not talking about going up to the casket and getting a "portrait" of the person. I would find that to be distasteful... I'm talking about being few feet away and getting a picture of the whole scene-- with the flowers and casket and everything. Not an "extreme close-up" of the person, but something that could be kept as a part of our family history.

I guess it's the photographer in me-- I feel like this is part of our family history. A good friend of my family-- my childhood piano teacher, passed away this past December. She was a pretty religious Jewish lady who taught me more life lessons than what I've learned through the Catholic Church.... One thing that really hit home was her acceptance of dying-- she looked at it in a matter-of-fact kind of way-- it was a part of life, and something that would happen to everyone.... Although I'm sure it scared her to be dying, she was also quite peaceful about it.

I took a few photos (discreetly) at the cemetary--from far away--the scene was a way that I could remember her life lesson. When she was dying, she told me to "stay away" and not to come see her, because she was very ill at the end (in her 90s). It made me quite sad that I didn't get to visit her in her final days, but yet, I was relieved also. I understood that she was teaching me another life-lesson. Her funeral was closed-casket-- my whole family attended--we were very broken up about it... I was actually quite sad that I was unable to "see" her one last time, but that is a part of life....

A the same time, I wanted something tangible to remind me of her life and death--of the life-lessons she taught me and the values she instilled in me. A simple photo was something to remind me of her later....

Regarding how a person looks--a lot has to do with how well the person at the funeral home does the make-up.
I've been to a lot of funerals. Some look pretty lifelike.. others look very strange.

Thinkbubelz' other grandma passed away about 1-1/2 months ago. The funeral home did a really nice job on her make-up. She looked peaceful and "normal"... You are lucky that the person who did the makeup did a good job.”

“I'll probably die from nitrogen narcosis and rapture of the deep.

Two years ago my fiend and I dove a wreck in the Florida Keys. The wreck was in almost 150 feet of water. We decided that we would dive down to the deck and just swim across its length. That would put us at 100-110 feet. We decided at the surface that we shouldn't go any deeper than that. We worked our way down to the deck fighting a strong current and murky water, only to find the current weaken below 90 feet in cool very clear water. We swam a ways down the deck and before I knew it I was staring into a large hole on the side of the vessel. Wondering how I got there. There was tons of fish inside the vessel. I didn't venture inside but when checking my depth guage, I saw that I was at 145 feet and narked out of my mind. My buddy came swimming by with a big chit eating grin on his face. I knew he was narked as well. I grabbed him by the fin and showed him my air guage. We were both at bingo air and needed to decompress. It is a good thing we had his dive computer because we were both to narked to do the decompression tables in our head. We accended to 90 feet for a few minutes, then at 60 the fog on my brains started to lift, we both had only 500 pounds of air. We stopped at 30 knowing we were short on air but figuring it better to decomprees till we ran out. We made a final stop at 15 feet and could harly get a breath out of our regulators. We surfaced into a thunderstorm. We cold see and feel the waves while we waited at 15 feet below and knew it was rough up top. We held on to a bouy with our snorkels filling up with every wave. Our buddies in the boat finally spotted us and picked us up. We climbed aboard poped a top on a cold one and headed to port in the kidney pounding waves. Our buddies had been timing our bottom time and were starting to worry. We have lost track of our divers before but usually in shallower water. If anything had went wrong on that dive one or both of us would be fish food. It was stupid but one hell of a thrill once you lived through it. I think about sharks a lot as well, especially on night dives. A great cheap thrill is to tow behind a boat in shallow clear water at night with a strong drive light. You will see tons of fish and some lobster as well. I'm always checking my back with the light, the whole 15 feet that it shines. Trolling like a bait behind a boat at night gives you the real hebegibies. The baracudas are the worst, they just appear and swim right on side of you. After about 15 or 20 minutes, I can't take it anymore and have to get in the boat.”

“I will have a ziggurat built on the former site of my house and I will be entombed there in my jade burial mask surround by the riches I will need in my afterlife along with the bodies of my servents. There will also be a 30 day period of mourning marked by great revelry and blood sacrifices.”

“Somebody give treebait a paper towel. There's tea on her monitor.”

“Krazy Kalifornians may have something here....

"MILL VALLEY, Calif. - In what may be the ultimate expression of "back to nature," three entrepreneurs are creating what they say is California's first organic cemetery, hoping their ban on floral arrangements and formaldehyde will serve as a national model.



Embalming fluid, metal caskets and marble headstones won't be permitted at Fernwood Forever. Instead, the dead will be placed in biodegradable boxes or shrouds and interred in nondescript graves that mourners can dig themselves.

To ensure visitors pay their respects at the right spot, the cemetery will provide global positioning system devices and native boulders as markers.

Besides offering environmentally conscious San Francisco Bay area residents a green alternative to identical plots on heavily landscaped grounds, the new facility will preserve 32 acres of open space between San Francisco Bay and Stinson Beach, said co-owner Tyler Cassity.

Some proceeds from each funeral will be used for restoring and maintaining the meadows, oak forests and scrub hills that make up the property, a portion of which has been in use as a conventional cemetery since the 19th century.”

“that sounds good but i thought the whole using caskets and tombs thing came from health department rules and laws?...did i just pull this out of my @ss?
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“bit - I need that napkin as well. That's hilarious HPM.”

“First unless I die of an accident, cancer will get me. Second I am an organ donor. And this will be my new home:


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“I wouldnt bet on it , more then one funeral home has gotten in trouble for reburying people in pine boxes and robbing the corpses....”

“Good point LJ.
I need to have a bunch of booby traps and spike filled pits installed in my ziggurat to thwart would-be grave robbers.”

“Curses work best. Then, the graverobbers get home with their booty, thinking that they were successful, then they die. And the articles they stole are cursed for all time and kill every subsequent owner, too. That's best. Yah.”

“The collateral damage would be cool but then I'd be in the afterlife without all my stuff.

I dunno, the other God Emperors might laugh at me.”

“I saw a movie once or maybe a documentary about some where....... They placed the body on a makeshift raft, caught it on fire and let it float away. That seems pretty awesome.”

“They won't know what your stuff is anyway.

And besides, how could a CD player stack up against, I dunno, 10,000 hearts from human sacrifices?”

“That's akin to a Viking funeral, CETTE.

That's what I want. I'm planning on spending my declining years building the longboat. Then, when I die, my body will be placed on it, towed out past the three-mile-limit, and the sails set afire with a flaming arrow.

Too cool.”

“Oh christ on a crutch the looney has escaped again.”

“I saw a documentary where they cut a guy open, ate his heart and then had an orgy while they smeared him all over their naked bodies.

That wouldn't be so bad....”

“Think I'll stick with the Viking funeral.”

“Sometimes I think a jack in the box version of a grave would be fun. That would certainly scare the s--t out of some poor bastard walking by.
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“A classmate told me when she was a kid, she used to play in one of the big cemetaries around here. According to her, there are mausoleums where the dead are lying in these big, glass-topped tanks full of embalming fluid, and you can see them.

I think she might have been yanking our chains though.
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“Those designer caskets are kind of nice! I'd get one with Chihuahuas all over it, have it customized. Actually, that would be a great idea for a someone who wanted or needed a closed casket. Have a drawing on the top of the casket.

pink, thanks for your answer. I didn't think you really got up close, but I suppose some people do. For me, I don't want pictures of anyone I know and the whole funeral parlor scene w/flowers etc. It would be too sad for me to look at. I guess it's all in your perception.

Bat, we've had about 2 diving accidents this year. One where the guy signaled to his wife to go up and she didn't realize he was acutally out of air for some reason, so she went up without looking back for him and he died under water. Another one was where a diver got tangled up in something, maybe it was netting under water. We have tons of divers in WA. We have octopuses, and I guess some other interesting stuff under there, because I see divers all the time by the water.”

“ok, I dig the Vikin Funeral concept! Not so sure about Nigals documentary..but whatever does it for ya!

Now this one is da bomb!

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“I think part of the idea of open caskets is it forces people to accept that the dearly departed is truly departed. I guess the same could be said for photos.

We had a neighbor who couldn’t attend her husband’s funeral because she was too ill. I don’t think she ever fully accepted that he was gone.



Nigal sure watches some weird porno.”

“there you go:
http://www.koerperwelten.com/en/pages/koerperspende.asp

gives posing naked a whole new meaning too.


hey creature...I REALLY, REALLY want that one "return to sender" how cool is that?!!!!”

“I've gone and downloaded the application form for the plastination...I'm on my way~!
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“I knew I shouldn't have clicked on that link!!!!! When will I learn?”