Writer's Block: R.I.P

[eliyes]

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Well, first off, I'm an organ donor, so we're talking about what do with my body after the still-usable parts have been salvaged.

I used to say "cremation", but the energy required to near-totally incinerate a human body isn't very ecofriendly, and a lot of the bits that do good things for the earth get evaporated, so now I'm thinking just buried in as simple a casket as can be arranged.

On the other hand, ashes can't become a zombie. Hmm...

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[jo-the-phoenix.livejournal.com]

I was actually just thinking today about cremation, so to log on and see this is kinda creepy.
I never considered the un-eco-friendliness of cremation. Now I have to think about it... but I don't like the idea of being wormfood. Not that I have anything against worms, but just.... ew.
And yes, to the anti-zombie aspect of cremation.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I think it's the time of year. Ghosts etc. with Hallowe'en coming up, and also the turning of the leaves. Here comes winter.

I never considered it either, until I talked about it with my dad when his father passed away. When I was a kid both of us were thinking cremation (although if Mom outlives Dad, she intends to pickle him instead), but now we've both switched to burial. *snicker* Mom always wanted to be buried, but she also doesn't like worms, so she essentially wants to be hermetically sealed in a rocket capsule. If the planet explodes millions of years after she dies, she'll be shot off into space --

(I used to be terrified of earthworms, but I got mostly over it when I did an archaeological dig -- because of course, they're unavoidable when you're digging a hole in the forest. And I took a seminar on forensics. I am now of the opinon that so long as my body doesn't end up in a body of water [particularly one containing eels] nothing that happens to it will be too creepy. And anyway, I won't be in it anymore.)

The anti-zombie thing is probably my biggest "pro" for cremation. Of course, I could always get them to do what they used to do with suspected vampires: drive a stake through my chest into the wood on the bottom of the coffin to keep me from getting out.

[jo-the-phoenix.livejournal.com]

lol @ pickling.
A hermetically sealed rocket capsule, eh? Hmmmmmmm... (*ponders*)

Have you read "Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers"? http://www.amazon.ca/Stiff-Mary-Roach/dp/0393324826/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1319903908&sr=8-1
It's quite good. Very interesting.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

So she says. Barrel in the basement, that's her plan.
*facepalm*

No, but I have read "Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex" by the same author. http://www.amazon.ca/Bonk-Mary-Roach/dp/0393064646 Weird and hilarious.