Nope - I want to leave my body to science (ideally I'd like to be a skeleton! Wouldn't that be cool? And I think that I'd make a great skeleton because I am small-boned and yet have good density and no breaks) and the only way that is happening is if I outlive everyone.
They'll let me be an organ donor but they draw the line at this. Also (and this is addressed in the movie) there is a huge issue about cremation and open caskets. And I don't need a will - what do I own but debt? so I am at their mercy.
I just really, really, really don't think it will matter to me when it becomes an issue - but I don't want people I know staring at my husk (medical students would be fine cause by that point, I'll probably be headless anyway. Go, go cadaver!) and I don't want it shoved in the ground.
But in the long run - my body won't really be my concern and rites of the dead are for the living. So while I hate funerals and viewings and coffins - it won't really be about me.
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Re: Completely off topic (tho' you make me want to see the flick, now)
Date: 2005-10-13 12:24 am (UTC)They'll let me be an organ donor but they draw the line at this. Also (and this is addressed in the movie) there is a huge issue about cremation and open caskets. And I don't need a will - what do I own but debt? so I am at their mercy.
I just really, really, really don't think it will matter to me when it becomes an issue - but I don't want people I know staring at my husk (medical students would be fine cause by that point, I'll probably be headless anyway. Go, go cadaver!) and I don't want it shoved in the ground.
But in the long run - my body won't really be my concern and rites of the dead are for the living. So while I hate funerals and viewings and coffins - it won't really be about me.