in which context is all

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Me: Did you hear about Steve Jobs?

Patty: Hasn't his health been fucked up for a while?

Me: [blah, blah, blah...] ... liver transplant.

Patty: Did you know most people who want to be organ donors can't because the organs have to be gotten so quickly?

Me: You know stuff about morbid stuff. Well hey, if they fail at being organ donors, they can donate their bodies to the Ohio State Buckeyes¹.

Patty: You could donate your body to Glee.

Me: A thought I'm sure people have often, in an entirely different context.


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¹ As at least one of her relatives has.

Comments

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

My top choice would actually be donating my body for forensics research, but I live too far away from any of the "body farms" for their transportation guidelines. It's too bad, because it would be awesome to say, "And after I die, I'm going to Fight Crime!" So it'll probably be a medical school.

Why yes, we have had this discussion in our household. Also whether, assuming one had access to private land and a sympathetic fire marshal, if it would be POSSIBLE to build a sufficiently hot open pyre to just have ash at the end, and not something that looked horrifyingly like Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru's remains in Star Wars. Our conclusion was that it would not be easy, thus scotching any hopes for a Jedi funeral for someone we knew, even if it was what she and her widow would have most preferred.

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

You can have a funeral pyre in Crestone, CO (http://www.crestone-end-of-life.org/), and one other place in the US (though I've not been able to find the other one).

Crestone requires that you be a resident of Crestone, Baca Grande, or Moffat for at least three months to qualify for a pyre service. They don't want "death tourists", but rather to keep it for members of the community.

I intend to move there once I reach retirement age - sooner if I am diagnosed with something awful. Any organs that are useful to someone else will be be donated if at all possible, and I intend for what's left to rejoin the Earth properly, as my ancestors did.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I'd read about that. We also had a friend with property in Maine and who was friends with the fire marshal, so actually arranging it wasn't going to be a problem -- the biggest block was "can we do this without horrifying her sister?" and the answer was "probably not," so we opted for a more traditional cremation.