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

[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.