Poll: After Life InstructionsFollow

Sorry, I've already got disgruntled Disney engineers waiting in the wings to stuff and animate you. You'll be permanently situated in the study with a copy of the Boston Globe, shaking your head and muttering curses.

I'll only acquiesce to that if you include a voice recognition module that triggers a program where I smash any appliance with the voice of Sean Hannity emanating from it.

that would be under Other

I went with Other.

Burial takes up too much space. The same with being mummified, and with cryogenics it's worse since you not only take up space but you require equipment and electricity. All for naught. With burial at least you will decompose over time. Mummified or frozen you will be preserved longer but to what end?

Cremation used to be my preferred way to go, but now I just think that's a misuse of resources.

If you want to be immortalized, don't do it with cryogenics. Go whole hog and get plastinated. It's the closest you'll get to keeping your body preserved forever.

There was another method of cadaver disposal I was interested in. It involved freezing the body, then breaking it up into tiny bits with ultrasound. The resulting organic material is well suited for composting. Better than ashes anyway.

so, no one wants to be turned into a diamond?

I want to be burried so I can have this on my Tombstone:

MrKatie and myself would both like to be diamonds. We think that would be pretty neat. Kind of weird, which fits us, but pretty neat.

My last act as a living being will be to covertly jump into a large ground beef distributors grinder. You will all have a piece of me inside you in the end.

I don't eat meat from Ontario. I'm safe.

When I die, I would like to be made into a crash test dummy. No other way to go.

FOR SCIENCE!!!

reanimated evil hybrid cyborg robot body. Of doom.

According to this book, the dead are very active in our community as test subjects for all variety of research and medicine. The most difficult thing to get permission to do to a body is shoot at it or blow it up. They'll cut off your head and hands and let a plastic surgeon-in-training practice on you before they let them use you in a bullet-proof vest test or a study on land mine trauma to develop safer boots.

That's also the book where I first heard about the method of composting bodies I mentioned earlier. Another method they mention is a good alternative to cremation, Tissue Digestion.

Edited, Jan 18th 2008 10:53pm by mfbrownbear

Ha, what suckers.



I intend to live forever thanks to significant advancements in computer technology, Nanotechnology, cybernetics, and stem-cell research in the next 50 years!




Edited, Jan 19th 2008 4:24pm by Rimesume