What would you like done with your body when you die?

1. 95

   Sue Adamsposted 14 years ago

   I just read somewhere that the tiniest, until now undiscovered connections in the brain might cause near death experiences, meaning you could acually still be alive, (your hair and nails are still growing) when pronounced dead. In view of this I would not like to be cremated but rather experience the dying process in a more "natural" way. Being enclosed in a wooden box doesn't seem very appealing either. Are there any alternatives? What do you think?

   replyreport
   1. 58

      Mark Knowlesposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Your hair and nails will continue to grow after you are dead. This is normal. Cremation prevents the "coming back" problem, so I suggest that.

      replyreport
      1. 61

         Bredaviesposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         zombiessss

         replyreport
   2. 70

      Cagsilposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Whatever science can use from body, when I am done with it, so be it.
      
      The rest, they can burn and dispense however they see fit. I will have no use for my body, because my life will be over.

      replyreport
2. 61

   Bredaviesposted 14 years ago

   I want to be put in a muesuem

   replyreport
3. 57

   Jeramiposted 14 years ago

   Dig a hole;  throw me in it, and plant a pecan tree or a watermellon plant over it I don't care as long as somebody eats the fruit commin offin it.

   replyreport
   1. 61

      Bredaviesposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      ....ahhh...:p

      replyreport
4. 95

   Sue Adamsposted 14 years ago

   Yes, dig a hole, get comfy and watch the stars, that would be nice but is it legal?

   replyreport
   1. 57

      Jeramiposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Only if somebody else knows about it....

      replyreport
5. 57

   Jeramiposted 14 years ago

   Yea  I wanta be a tree hubber from tha ground up..is there somthin wrong with that????

   replyreport
6. 79

   Uninvited Writerposted 14 years ago

   I am an organ donor and I wish to be cremated afterwards.

   replyreport
7. 95

   Sue Adamsposted 14 years ago

   no, nothing wrong with that as far as I'm concerned but what about the law? Can you just go and hide like an animal and let nature take over?

   replyreport
   1. 57

      Jeramiposted 14 years agoin reply to this

        I think ya can as long as ya got the paperwork taken care of.  If ya know its coming ????   do tha paperwork  as far as titles and stuff and the county clerk  realy don't  care.
      And if tha government don't know  ????

      replyreport
8. 57

   Jeramiposted 14 years ago

   It is a good thought if life comes or continues afterwards; any kind of way.

   replyreport
9. 95

   Sue Adamsposted 14 years ago

   Yes, donating organs is good, but again it interferes with dying peacefully.

   replyreport
   1. 79

      Uninvited Writerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Well, I would hope to be dead first :lol

      replyreport
      1. 95

         Sue Adamsposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         But now some scientists are saying that a stopped heart and brain are not necessarily proof of death. They claim that some tiny, hitherto unknown neurons carry on firing after people have officially been pronounced dead.

         replyreport
         1. 79

            Uninvited Writerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            But, after you are brain dead you don't feel anything.

            replyreport
         2. 70

            Cagsilposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            Isn't usually after about 3-4 minutes you are declared brain dead. If you die on the table and you are flatline, they will work on you up to that 4-5 minute mark, to ensure that they have done all they can to make you live. Any further, would mean severe brain damage or vegetable, and that's no way of life.
            
            I'm not exactly sure on that, but I pretty sure it's close. Just a thought.

            replyreport
            1. 79

               Uninvited Writerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

               You can guarantee that in your living will.
               
               http://hubpages.com/hub/What-is-a-Living-Will

               replyreport
               1. 95

                  Sue Adamsposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                  Yes, I know about living wills, my 96 year old (perfectly healthy)
                  grandma signed one because she doesn't want to be kept alive on tubes.  But it doesn't solve the problem of not being allowed to quietly creep away somewhere quiet, more like an animal, rather than having to be handled by people.

                  replyreport
                  1. 79

                     Uninvited Writerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                     Well, if it can save someone from dying I really don't mind at all.

                     replyreport
10. 60

    DogSiDaedposted 14 years ago

    I'd donate my body to science (hopefully bits of it would be useable )
    
    Then probably cremation because it leaves less mess and takes up less ground space

    replyreport
11. 59

    abcd1111posted 14 years ago

    I'm going to go with the theory that if my heart stops, my brain is dead and I'm no longer breathing, it's a wash.
    
    Take any organs worth using and burn the rest.
    
    As for creeping off and dying without people handling you, what's to stop you from doing that?
    Unless you're brain dead and can't get yourself out to the woods...
    
    I hope it's a peaceful passing for all of us. No rush though.

    replyreport
    1. 95

       Sue Adamsposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       But when I mention this to my family they say "No, you can't do that, we want a proper funeral" and all that palaver. So it seems even in death you have to conform to the norm. 

       replyreport
12. 59

    abcd1111posted 14 years ago

    I will totally agree we don't have enough power over our own passing.  I believe in being able to opt for euthanasia if I am suffering, but others don't allow that either.
    
    Can't the relatives settle for a "proper" memorial and just remember all the good times?

    replyreport
13. 95

    Sue Adamsposted 11 years ago

    I really like the idea of
    "Creeping off into the woods and dying without people handling you, what's to stop you from doing that?"

    replyreport
14. 55

    ftclickposted 11 years ago

    mummified is fine.

    replyreport
    1. 95

       Sue Adamsposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       No, definitely not mummified. I couldn't breathe in heaven with all that stuff in my face

       replyreport
15. 61

    prettydarkhorseposted 11 years ago

    a flower in my hair right side, yellow flowers, me floating in a body of water with a raft

    replyreport
    1. 95

       Sue Adamsposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       Wow, that's beautiful Pretty.

       replyreport
       1. 61

          prettydarkhorseposted 11 years agoin reply to this

          

          replyreport
16. 64

    MAGICFIVEposted 11 years ago

    Wow!  Lots of people answered this!  I'd like to uploaded onto a computer and turned into a cartoon!  There's a different answer!  Seriously, it would be so fun being a cartoon.

    replyreport
    1. 95

       Sue Adamsposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       Hi Magicfive,
       Do you mean a cartoon of your life or a cartoon character? I love cartoon characters too . Which one would you like to be? Micky Mouse seems to be pretty immortal.

       replyreport
17. 89

    SimeyCposted 11 years ago

    I've donated my body to a University - as the University is about 45 minutes from my home, I'm kinda hoping that if I am still alive, someone might notice the body bag that is moving!!!

    replyreport
18. 64

    MAGICFIVEposted 11 years ago

    Definitely a cartoon character...I don't know, I never actually picked one out..maybe a cute Anime girl, why not?

    replyreport
19. 57

    LensMan999posted 11 years ago

    I really leave the choice to GOD, the almighty.

    replyreport
20. 59

    kathyinmnposted 11 years ago

    I was faced with cancer last year and I really thought of the what if…….and what to do.
    So I decided to be buried green. That is with no embalming. I have a choice of being buried in a shroud or in a simple pine box. I thought of the shroud, but I am afraid they might drop me in the hole and I would turn over and end up face down.  I don’t think they will turn me over once in the ground. Jack, my friend joked about it and said I can always say “kiss my behind, world”  LOL….. So I am leaning to the pine box.
    
    Being buried green is a lot cheaper, almost every state has a area where you can have this done. Here in Minnesota there are 2 locations, in both areas, you have a choice between a woodland setting and a prairie setting. There are no head stones here, but you can have a small metal plack to mark your resting place. I would like a woodland setting and I asked Joe to plant my special tree near me.

    replyreport
21. 59

    Hui (蕙)posted 11 years ago

    I used to talk with some friends about devoting the body to medical use. Back then, I didn't think I would be great enough to do that, because I feel horrible to expose my own body to everybody, even I were already dead. Neither do I by now. But with aging, the mind may get changed. Who knows?
    
    Now, I just imagine I would be in a wooden boat, drifting and finally sinking into the deep sea, to explore that mysterious world, while without a trace on land, so families, relatives, friends do need to be sad much, but just a moment...

    replyreport
22. 86

    kaiyan717posted 11 years ago

    I have a rare brain disease that hasn't been studied much, they actualy have not had a brain with my disease in 125 years, so my head goes to IHRF for research funding.  Hopefully they can learn something, maybe even a cure.

    replyreport
23. 68

    StandingJaguarposted 11 years ago

    I'm leaning on the green burial, as someone already described above. I don't want any embalming or removing of any fluid/tissue/organs in my body. Just put me in the ground and let me give back my body; it was all borrowed anyway.
    
    If you want to sneak off and pass away like other animals would, I would talk to a lawyer and include that wish in your living will. You might also want to leave a note--"by the way I'm leaving now don't look for me"--so people don't think you've been abducted or something. Go somewhere remote, so some poor sucker doesn't find your decomposing body and the police take it for forensic autopsies to see how you were murdered, lol. This is, of course, all assuming you can someone plan or predict when you are about to die.

    replyreport
24. 64

    MAGICFIVEposted 11 years ago

    Actually, I just watched a Morgan Freeman "through the wormhole" show about "life after death" ...this is interesting...there is someone in Japan who is making robots to put uploaded brains in, once the technology for that is available....and they're getting close!  There is a "budget" robot version that just looks sort of like a little blob - but it's cute.  Now the thing is...if that brain is loaded into this robot, would that be "you' or just a copy of you?  And what if you can only afford the "budget" robot - would you just be laying in a room all day like a baby, because you can't move by yourself?  Would you choose this "life?"

    replyreport
25. 73

    austinhealyposted 11 years ago

    Very interesting question. I was just discussing this topic with my son last summer, as he asked me what kind of funeral I wanted. When I die, which I hope will happen at the latest possible date, I want all possible re-usable organs to be removed from me and used on other people. I used to say : throw what's left by the dog food plant, but nobody except me found this funny. So instead, I would like the remains after removing the usable spare parts to be used for science or medical experiment. What a way to go !

    replyreport
26. 58

    Jay(C)posted 11 years ago

    Burn me baby!

    replyreport
27. 60

    moneyfairyposted 11 years ago

    I would just want to be cremated and have my ashes thrown over some sacred spot after any organ donations that would be useable at the time. The spirit that is you always is,in life and in death, so whatever happens to the container(the body) I was in for this life time really doesn't matter. It's just a suit so to speak that I walked this planet with while I was here. But you should go for it if you know it is happening and have the strength to go into nature in a forest somewhere lay on a colorful blanket surrounded by beautiful flowers and trees and just pass on to the next plane.

    replyreport