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trof

(54,273 posts)
Thu Jan 11, 2024, 07:31 PM Jan 2024

I know where I'm going when I die.

No, I'm not concerned about heaven or hell.
I know where I'm going.
I'M GOING TO MEMPHIS!

https://tn211.myresourcedirectory.com/index.php?option=com_cpx&task=resource.view&id=1410615&search_history_id=174102238&code=PB#:~:text=Genesis%20Legacy%20Whole%20Body%20Donation%20Foundation%20is%20a%20willed%20whole,for%20the%20advancement%20of%20science.

I've donated my body to medical research.
They come and get you.
NO CHAERGE for transport!
You leave no loose strings behind.
No final expense for my family.
When they're done, your remains are cremated and sent to your designated recipient for memorial service or whatever.

Just a suggestion.

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I know where I'm going when I die. (Original Post) trof Jan 2024 OP
Something to consider Joinfortmill Jan 2024 #1
I am the keeper of my stepdad's donation paperwork. Croney Jan 2024 #2
I remember a retirement seminar a long time ago BOSSHOG Jan 2024 #8
GEAUX TIGERS! trof Jan 2024 #36
Memphis in the meantime, baby! bamagal62 Jan 2024 #3
I attended 'night school' classes there trof Jan 2024 #37
My mother did that. PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2024 #4
Might add that to my wishes. sinkingfeeling Jan 2024 #5
My wife and I are designated organ donors BOSSHOG Jan 2024 #6
Kudos to you!! PortTack Jan 2024 #18
Laissez les bons temps rouler trof Jan 2024 #38
That sign displayed proudly in our den BOSSHOG Jan 2024 #47
That is my destination also except, Butterflylady Jan 2024 #7
You are GIVING them your body. trof Jan 2024 #39
Say hi to Elvis. (eom) SarahD Jan 2024 #9
Thank you... trof Jan 2024 #40
hey Trof Skittles Jan 2024 #10
"This side up", "Use no hooks", "Stack no higher than three high", "Open here", "Cut along dotted line" ... marble falls Jan 2024 #12
"Fragile- Handle With Care" no longer. FailureToCommunicate Jan 2024 #14
"Not for resale" marble falls Jan 2024 #21
Refrigerate after opening... MiHale Jan 2024 #29
"Not meant for human consumption!" "Generic human" ... marble falls Jan 2024 #31
👍 MiHale Jan 2024 #32
*SNORT* Skittles Jan 2024 #45
OMG you made me laugh! What a hoot that would be! Hekate Jan 2024 #20
This is the most persuasive comment in this thread! JoseBalow Jan 2024 #13
YES I HAVE! trof Jan 2024 #41
I'm going into an unmarked hole unembalmed, naked and packed into a cotton sack. marble falls Jan 2024 #11
So...your wife found you after all? FailureToCommunicate Jan 2024 #15
Actually she hasn't. That's why it's an anonymous unmarked hole. She'll need ground penetrating lidar to find me ... marble falls Jan 2024 #22
That's great. I hate the laws that restrict this. JudyM Jan 2024 #34
That's a hook to make you buy into a three or four grand vault. Like real estate, it's location, location, location ... marble falls Jan 2024 #35
I'm in Alabama trof Jan 2024 #42
You think going back into the earth and feeding a tree is a waste? What about flying my post cancer ... marble falls Jan 2024 #48
What a fabulous idea cilla4progress Jan 2024 #16
I'm going on a ferry to be in the pacific between Catalina and Long Shore, Ca PortTack Jan 2024 #17
26 miles across the sea trof Jan 2024 #43
I don't know the particulars, but there is also the Body Farm at the University of Tennessee. OldBaldy1701E Jan 2024 #19
Turn about is fair play ... marble falls Jan 2024 #23
As much venison as I have consumed in my life... it would be a fair trade. OldBaldy1701E Jan 2024 #24
I would consider it, but I don't want to end up as home decor for a bunch of meth heads and put ito an evidence ... marble falls Jan 2024 #25
She was probably after the minerals Bayard Feb 2024 #52
Nutrition. Why we all eat whatever it is we eat. marble falls Feb 2024 #54
Cremation is polluting trof Jan 2024 #44
That would cause a stir in my family bucolic_frolic Jan 2024 #26
My folks both did the same thing True Dough Jan 2024 #27
But trof, do us a favor True Dough Jan 2024 #28
Thank you trof Jan 2024 #46
... marble falls Jan 2024 #30
I should probably do that too. Lunabell Jan 2024 #33
Interesting. elleng Jan 2024 #49
Thanks, trof lillypaddle Feb 2024 #50
I have been strongly considering this for years. yellowdogintexas Feb 2024 #51
Pack my body cavity with C-4 High Explosives Submariner Feb 2024 #53

Croney

(4,923 posts)
2. I am the keeper of my stepdad's donation paperwork.
Thu Jan 11, 2024, 07:44 PM
Jan 2024

He will be 90 soon. His body is going to LSU for research. I sure hope it works out the way he wants. I told him to give me a little advance warning before dying so he can be retrieved in a timely manner. He said he'll certainly try.

BOSSHOG

(39,836 posts)
8. I remember a retirement seminar a long time ago
Thu Jan 11, 2024, 08:22 PM
Jan 2024

An insurance agent said he could provide us with the perfect insurance policy. All he needed to know was the day we would die.

bamagal62

(3,650 posts)
3. Memphis in the meantime, baby!
Thu Jan 11, 2024, 07:47 PM
Jan 2024

My mom is 92 and is giving her body to UAB in Birmingham when she dies.

trof

(54,273 posts)
37. I attended 'night school' classes there
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 07:21 PM
Jan 2024

back when it was called the U of A "Extension Center".
Early 60s?

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,727 posts)
4. My mother did that.
Thu Jan 11, 2024, 08:04 PM
Jan 2024

We kids (all six of us) were more than okay with her decision.

We did eventually get her ashes back, and eventually scattered them where she wanted them to go.

BOSSHOG

(39,836 posts)
6. My wife and I are designated organ donors
Thu Jan 11, 2024, 08:20 PM
Jan 2024

I don’t know what medical facility we’ll go to but we want our ashes to float down the Mississippi and end up in the Big Easy, preferably during Mardi Gras Season.

Butterflylady

(3,983 posts)
7. That is my destination also except,
Thu Jan 11, 2024, 08:20 PM
Jan 2024

I will be going to M. S. Hershey Medical Center. All my family pays is transportation. But I am only 15 miles away, so it shouldn't be a lot.

marble falls

(62,047 posts)
12. "This side up", "Use no hooks", "Stack no higher than three high", "Open here", "Cut along dotted line" ...
Thu Jan 11, 2024, 09:30 PM
Jan 2024

... "Measure twice, cut once".

marble falls

(62,047 posts)
22. Actually she hasn't. That's why it's an anonymous unmarked hole. She'll need ground penetrating lidar to find me ...
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 08:49 AM
Jan 2024

... and it's a big field with hundreds of others who are trying to make a last attempt at reducing their carbon footprint. The hole will be hand dug and filled. Very inexpensive and prepaid.

JudyM

(29,517 posts)
34. That's great. I hate the laws that restrict this.
Sun Jan 14, 2024, 11:42 AM
Jan 2024

I was told the cement liner boxes are to protect the groundwater but I wonder if there’s evidence that that’s a common enough issue to justify it.

marble falls

(62,047 posts)
35. That's a hook to make you buy into a three or four grand vault. Like real estate, it's location, location, location ...
Sun Jan 14, 2024, 12:10 PM
Jan 2024

... some locations are suitable, some are not. The pollution is from the embalming, not un-embalmed bodies.

My suitable final resting ground is in Austin, well under $3,000. With a tree planted close enough for me to help fertilize.

trof

(54,273 posts)
42. I'm in Alabama
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 07:42 PM
Jan 2024

I don't think that would fly down her.
But why waste a body when you could do some good?

marble falls

(62,047 posts)
48. You think going back into the earth and feeding a tree is a waste? What about flying my post cancer ...
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 10:59 PM
Jan 2024

... organ-short, beat to hell body on a commercial flight (all that wasted fuel, pollution) being refrigerated for perhaps months, being cremated (more pollution and fuel waste) being shipped back to wherever and buried for a gouged price? This evolves no waste or unnecessary expense?

The only thing more ecofriendly and economical than a final ride in my station wagon to the cemetery and put into a hole un-embalmed, would be jam a ham bone up my butt and let the dogs drag me into the woods. I'll not be wasted either way.

Sorry my inexpensive, eco-friendly last wishes offends the great state of Alabama. I'd sure as hell'd rather end up in Texas than Alabama at any rate.

How many body farms do we need, anyways? No one will take my organs with my medical history. I really don't need anyone else's opinion.

PortTack

(34,643 posts)
17. I'm going on a ferry to be in the pacific between Catalina and Long Shore, Ca
Thu Jan 11, 2024, 10:02 PM
Jan 2024

One of the best memories of my entire life is a 2 day trip I spent with my daughter, pre grand kids on the island of Catalina. Once you get beyond Long Shore the water is as blue as the Mediterranean. The memories I have of that trip are poignant, vivid and just down right wonderful.

Some ppl look up at the stars and say how they know they belong…for me it’s the sea.

Kudos to you for making all the difficult decisions and not leaving it up to your family. Wherever one ends up, I hope you have the kind of peaceful feelings tref has about it

OldBaldy1701E

(6,339 posts)
19. I don't know the particulars, but there is also the Body Farm at the University of Tennessee.
Thu Jan 11, 2024, 10:06 PM
Jan 2024

I kind of like the idea, but I also wanted to be cremated. Still deciding I guess.

marble falls

(62,047 posts)
23. Turn about is fair play ...
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 08:56 AM
Jan 2024
https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/gaMBvjDCHLj9MwMV6ecpJxZyu1c=/1000x750/filters:no_upscale():focal(793x780 94x781)/

Deer Caught Gnawing on Human Bones

For the first time, researchers spotted a white-tailed deer chewing on a rib bone at a body farm

Jason Daley

Correspondent
May 8, 2017

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/deer-caught-gnawing-human-bones-first-time-180963178/


In what may be the most disturbing study published so far this year, researchers photographed the first-known instance of a white-tailed deer gnawing on human bones. As George Dvorsky reports for Gizmodo, in 2015, a camera trap captured images of a deer with a human rib sticking out of its mouth, likely gnawing on the bone to release minerals.

The bone-chewing deer was detected during a study of animal scavengers at the 26-acre Forensic Anthropology Research Facility in San Marcos, Texas, a “body farm” where researchers from Texas State University study the decomposition of human bodies. Researchers usually place a cage over the bodies to prevent large animals from scavenging the corpses. But, according to the case report published in The Journal of Forensic Sciences, researchers were hoping to record how scavengers impact decomposition. So they placed the body in a wooded area in July 2014 without a cage and used cameras to record the animals that stopped by to snack.

It wasn’t until 182 days after death—when much of the body had decomposed and the dry rib cage was exposed—that the deer appeared. On January 5, 2015, the camera trap photographed a white-tailed deer with a rib bone hanging out of its mouth that has previously been described as holding the bone "like a cigar," the researchers write in the paper. Eight days later, the camera caught another image of a deer gnawing on the bones, but it's unclear whether it was the same animal.

Deer rib lateral

marble falls

(62,047 posts)
25. I would consider it, but I don't want to end up as home decor for a bunch of meth heads and put ito an evidence ...
Sun Jan 14, 2024, 10:47 AM
Jan 2024

... bag after a police raid.

trof

(54,273 posts)
44. Cremation is polluting
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 07:51 PM
Jan 2024

Sorry, but there it is.
I do like the Body Farm idea. I saw it on a YouTube video.
Very helpful to law enforcement and coroners.

bucolic_frolic

(46,973 posts)
26. That would cause a stir in my family
Sun Jan 14, 2024, 10:50 AM
Jan 2024

I've a spot reserved in a suitcase amongst my kin, and in a plot I don't approve of.

True Dough

(20,252 posts)
27. My folks both did the same thing
Sun Jan 14, 2024, 10:50 AM
Jan 2024

allowed some medical students to slice 'em and dice 'em for science. Bless their souls.

Lunabell

(6,810 posts)
33. I should probably do that too.
Sun Jan 14, 2024, 11:37 AM
Jan 2024

For my skeleton. I'm a tetracycline baby. Given tetracycline as a little baby for pneumonia, and then later they found out that given to little children, tetracycline turns your teeth and bones grey/yellow instead of the usual ivory. My teeth are definitely grey and I bet my bones are too.

elleng

(136,043 posts)
49. Interesting.
Mon Jan 29, 2024, 04:18 AM
Jan 2024

As a family member recently died, these issues are front and center (for other family members,) and as my Plenty-Nine birthday is soon, the need to plan becomes relevant.

Am officially a 'donor,' but not taking steps to dedicate my entire body; am looking into Green Burial. Hope to make arrangements so as to relieve my family of the need and expense to do so.

yellowdogintexas

(22,710 posts)
51. I have been strongly considering this for years.
Fri Feb 16, 2024, 05:02 PM
Feb 2024

My grandmother in law donated her body to science, which shocked me because she was dyed in the wool Southern Baptist and they believe the body comes back when Christ returns.

Many subsets of Christianity believe this which is why those groups object to cremation.

Good on you for doing this

Submariner

(12,665 posts)
53. Pack my body cavity with C-4 High Explosives
Fri Feb 16, 2024, 05:35 PM
Feb 2024

and deliver me to Mar A Lago. I'm only sorry I'll miss the explosion and the great story of cheering worldwide that he's finally gone.

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