Would you like a funeral?

after death

I want to be cremated, and my ashes scattered over Rebecca Stamos.

Then, like jimmygun, I would like to see a party attended by my friends and my wife's baptist friends. My friends would be on one side of the room drinking and laughing and my wife's baptist friends would be on the other, mumbling and praying and wishing they were on the other side of the room.
 
jimmygun said:

Nobody will allow it to happen but I think it would be hilarious if the coffin was open and empty, with my dead body sitting in a corner out of the way with a beer in my hand. Most of the people I know have seen me sitting with a beer and damned few of them ever saw me lying in a box sleeping.
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As for me, I'm hoping that by the time I die, taxidermy for humans will be a reality. Yep...I'd like to be stuffed. All my organs could be donated, I wouldn't take up any ground space or harm the environment by being flame grilled. Consider the advantages! I could be posable with interchangeable parts and, (finally) have that body I always dreamed of. Family and friends could bring me out of the attic during holidays, birthdays, weddings. No one would really miss me, coz I'd always be there! There ya go, Jimmy! You can always have that brewski in your hand. Hell, I could be functional, too! I think I'd make a great coat rack at the front door! :D
 
I've only been to one funeral, and it was a humanist/non-religious one. A few speakers (collegues and friends of the deceased and a 'hired-gun' from the humanist organisation), some music and then off to a gathering with the family. Seemed decent enough for me.

But in the end I don't care. I'll be dead and funerals are for the living anyway. I might leave a few wishes, but that will be to help out those arranging the thing, and they should feel free to ignore it. (Absolutely no priests and speaking of eternal life, please! But as I've said, I won't care.)

I've informed my parents it's ok for them to donate my organs if the opportunity arises, and carry a donor-card with their names and phone-numbers, and beyond that they can bury me, burn me or dump me in the Thames as they see fit.
 
First any body parts grab them and use them, whats left burn to ashes, scatter me round a rose bush or something nice and pleasantly whiffy, and have a damn good party, job done. Thats my instructions and everybody knows it.
My funeral will be a cheap, cheerful and drunk affair, sounds like me in life LMAO:D
 
Q-Source said:



Most of the people here say that they would like to have a kind of celebration instead of a sad funeral. But....

Would you do the same if your loved ones asked you to do that before she/he die?

Would you follow his/her instructions?

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Oh, yes.

Especially my mum and dad - we have discussed this. I would only be carrying out their wishes, after all:)
 
I've watched overdone funerals for the parents and grandparents of friends and they usually are a result of guilt. Everyone is afraid of offending the dead. So they go off the deep end, spending way to much and driving themselves into bankruptcy just to have a pretty wooden box to put some meat in. I think it is important to let people know what you want. Be VERY clear about your wishes and you will probably relieve far more stress than you cause.
 
Gregor said:
I want to be cremated, and my ashes scattered over Rebecca Stamos.

Then, like jimmygun, I would like to see a party attended by my friends and my wife's baptist friends. My friends would be on one side of the room drinking and laughing and my wife's baptist friends would be on the other, mumbling and praying and wishing they were on the other side of the room.
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What would you do if your loved one dies first and ask you to organise a party in her honor? Would you do that?
 
Organ donation?

Would you rather absorb another person's donated entrails to prevent your death? Kinda the point of donating in the first place. :D
 
Re: donate body?

kittynh said:
Am I the only one that plans on donating my body to science?
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My desire to be tossed into a peat bog or buried in permafrost is donating my body to science too!
 
Re: Re: donate body?

I'm afraid that if I donate my body to science, I'll wake up 400 years in the future wishing I'd stayed dead.
 
bjornart said:
...and beyond that they can bury me, burn me or dump me in the Thames as they see fit.
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Actually, I think we've got an eater here...


Seriously, soylent green is the answer. A shame to let good meat go to waste! (Hmm... combination Wake/Barbecue...)
 
sundog said:
Would I like a funeral?

Can I decide who it's for?
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LMAO.

To paraphrase (badly) Winston Churchill, I think: I have never wished anyone dead, but there are some funerals I would gladly attend.
 
Tricky said:

Seriously, soylent green is the answer. A shame to let good meat go to waste! (Hmm... combination Wake/Barbecue...)
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Actually, I think that's quite sweet. The idea of being the main course at my own wake appeals to me. Assuming I haven't died of anything nasty, of course...

Q: is cannibalism still wrong when you have the consent of the person in question?
 
Someday I hope to have a garden. Out in the countryside, with a nice lawn. I want to be wrapped up in sackcloth and buried in the middle of the lawn and have an oak sapling planted directly over the cadaver.
 
Ladyhawk wrote: "As for me, I'm hoping that by the time I die, taxidermy for humans will be a reality."

This kinda happens already. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/03/20/1016610337699.html

From the page: "Plasticised by a technique he invented in the 1970s, the corpses, mostly skinned, are perfectly preserved. They are both rigid and flexible enough for Dr von Hagens to arrange them, free-standing, in almost any position he wants."

The technique is used by medical schools to extend the useful 'life' of cadavers or body parts for teaching purposes. It allows repeated dissection and examination a la Grey's Anatomy, permits the students to work in normal office/tutorial rooms rather than chilled morgues and does away with formaldehyde fumes (or so I understand).

The tutorial rooms for the med students at the hospital where I work had been designed with glass panels in the doors. As patients and visitors to patients were likely to walk past these rooms, we had to cover the glass panels with brown paper until curtains could be installed, as the view was pretty freaky.
 
donor body!

Smalso has it right, after a year I was told my body would be creamated and returned to my family. Though I still want to be made into a skeleton. I have a funny bone deformity that isn't too terribly noticable with all the skin on! But whenever I get an xray the docs go, "Oh lookyhere!" I was told the best skeletons are made at the Smithsonian. They have a room full of BUGS! They eat everything off and leave a clean white skeleton! Too cool!
 
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