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ringmastery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 11:42 AM
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What do you want to do with your body after you die? burial? cremation?
donate it to medical science?

freeze yourself?

I've always been fascinated with science fiction. 500 years ago who could have imagined the world we live in now.

I would seriously consider freezing my body so that in the distant future they may be able to revive me.

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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 11:43 AM
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1. Hrm...
Probably relavant parts to medical science, wake (for closure, etc.) and then cremation. I'm diabetic, so if we still don't have a cure for it, they can certainly study me! Not like I'm gonna need it then!

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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 11:44 AM
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2. Cremation. I have my urn and everything...it's white with blue grapevines
and branches on it; in this life, it stores my coffee beans *lol*
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 11:45 AM
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3. What's with all the death threads today?
I posted one about caskets just about simultaneously.

Oh, just leave it in a ditch somewhere. Maybe a feral cat is hungry.
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 11:45 AM
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4. Sprinkle my ashes
...in the coffee machines of my enemies. Don't worry, I'll have the list done before I die. :evilgrin:
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THUNDER HANDS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 11:46 AM
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5. freeze
I want to be re-animated (preferably by super-hot scientific babes) somewhere in the 24th century.
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Cush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 11:47 AM
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9. Like Wilma & Princess Ardala on Buck Rogers?
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THUNDER HANDS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 11:48 AM
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12. yup
that's slightly before my time, but I vaguely get who you're talking about.

Thank you Duck Dogers and the 24th and a half, centureeeeee.

:D
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Cush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 11:51 AM
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16. Well, I'm 26 (nearly 27)
so I remember seeing it in reruns during the early 80's, and then whenever the Scifi Channel shows it.
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Cush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 11:46 AM
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6. Send me into space (out of the solar system)
and then after a few thousand years of floating around, some aliens will find me and bring me back to life :-)
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kitkatrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 11:46 AM
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7. Take all usable organs for transplant,
cremation, and bury me under a newly planted tree somewhere. That way I can be useful.
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 11:47 AM
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8. Donate as much as possible to medical research
cremate the rest
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 11:48 AM
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10. Donating my body to science fiction
(insert drum rimshot here)
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 11:48 AM
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11. hm.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 11:49 AM
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13. Cremation. I think it's criminal to be buried nowadays.
It's an inexcusible waste of land, IMO.

Plus, the funeral industry makes enough outrageous profits. I don't want my survivors to spend $6000 and more on some damn casket. Idiotic.

Terry
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bearfan454 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 11:49 AM
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14. Cremation for me. I told Mrs bearfan that
I want to be cremated. She can put my ashes in the fire at the deer camp. I hope I don't come back as a deer(just kidding).
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Most Rev. Jerry Donating Member (16 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 11:50 AM
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15. Oh, curse my eyes!
It matters not what you do! You are liberals, and as such your body will face the fire and brimstone in the Lake of Fire. Should you be buried, the land upon which you are buried will become barren and lifeless. Should you be cremated, your ashes will defile any container or span of land they encounter.

It matters not, liberals. It matters not.

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Butterflies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 12:03 PM
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18. Ewwwwwww
I think you defile any TV that you're shown on.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 11:58 AM
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17. Cremation
There's no way I want the funeral directors to have any money I may leave behind.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 12:10 PM
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21. it's a beautiful day
the sun is shining and it is even 70 degrees here in P-burg. And everyone is thinking about death and burial. Okay. You should all get out of your houses and go outside! ( assuming it isn't still snowing where you are);) Or at least take your laptop and go and drink some latte somewhere!

that is my suggestion to you... it is what I intend to do.

Thank you, Dr. Mom
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 12:07 PM
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19. I've told my family that...
I want to have my body filled with hard candies and used as a pinata
for underprivileged children. No adult republicans are to participate.
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m-jean03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 12:09 PM
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20. I love what Conan O'Brien said.
Edited on Fri Mar-26-04 12:10 PM by m-jean03
"I want them to leave me out in a field somewhere, so I can scare some kids on Halloween." (paraphrasing) :P
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blindpig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 12:38 PM
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22. I'm going to hell in a hand basket
cremation, ashes deposited in said handbasket and delivered by my nearest to Tate's Hell in Franklin Co, Fla, an exquiste natural area that I love.
Now, if I could I'd prefer to be hacked up like chum(after death!) and fed to the gators & turtles. But they won't let me.
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 12:40 PM
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23. Donate whatever I can, cremate the rest n/t
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FlaGranny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 12:42 PM
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24. I don't care - I won't need it any more.
I chose the cheapest method of disposal. Donation to science if they'll take it.
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 12:43 PM
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25. Toasted and Sprinkled in The Bunker On The 4th Hole
The course i play has 46 fairway bunkers, and 21 greenside traps. I have been in about half, but most only once or twice. But, that bunker on the 190 yard par 3 (#4) i've been in a hundred times!

So, i want my wife to toast me into sand and dump me in that trap. I might as well, i've spent enough of my life there. I might as well spend the time until the sun goes nova in there too!
The Professor
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 12:47 PM
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26. Toasted, scattered,
and soon forgotten. Life goes on.
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 12:48 PM
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27. donate it to medical science
if anything is left, i wanna burn!
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HuckleB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 12:50 PM
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28. Donate it to medical science.
They need bodies. I won't know the difference. So...
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 12:52 PM
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29. My first choice is..
..shoved in a Hefty bag and placed on the front lawn for trash day.
But, I doubt anyone will do that for me. But honestly, I am wishing to be cremated. As for the ashes, I haven't decided yet.
I also had the idea of having a solar powered electric eye embedded in my tombstone so that when someone walked by a voice recording of myself would wish them a good day. That was before I got serious about the cremation thing.
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Mike Daniels Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 12:54 PM
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30. Told the wife that I'm to be stuffed and placed on the couch in the den
Edited on Fri Mar-26-04 01:03 PM by Mike Daniels
with headphones connected to the CD player on my head, video game console in one hand and a beer in the other.

The shrine to the magnificence that is Mike Daniels at leisure will be available for viewing and donations will be accepted.
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