Xinnamin
Mrs. Austin
I've never really seen the appeal of burials and cemeteries to be honest. I mean, I understand why we have them, to honor the dead or something, but a body is simply a body, a complex bundle of cells with the sole purpose of maintaining life. Once a life ends the body will have stopped serving its purpose as a body, and at that point simply becomes dead organic matter. At that point, why continue treating it as if it's something special or sacred? Biologically that dead body is no different than say that dead mouse your cat so lovingly gave to you the other day.
That being said, I don't care much for funerals or pretty tombstones or any of that. Like many have said, I'd be very happy to donate any and all organs that have any value after my death, since those can still be used by the living. As for the rest of my body, if science doesn't want it then I don't particularly care what happens to it. So far as I'm concerned that's no longer my body after I die, it's just dead meat.
If my family wants it buried then they can go right ahead; I wouldn't ask for such a thing though, paying money to lock that organic matter into a box, disrupting the process of biological recycling, in some elaborate procession that'll just give my loved ones a chance to cry in public (a pessimistic view I know, but that is honestly how I view funerals, I apologize if anyone takes that in a bad way).
If they want it cremated, fine by me. Keeping the ashes in a pretty jar on the mantle and my descendants may remember me for a few more generations, but that's hardly a big deal. Spread the ash around into the wind, it might still have usable nutrients in it, that's probably preferable, but I suppose if I'm dead I should at least let my family have the comfort of deciding what to do with that body I left behind.
The only thing I absolutely do not want happening is the body being defiled, since that's just scary to think about. Other than that, it doesn't matter much to me.
That being said, I don't care much for funerals or pretty tombstones or any of that. Like many have said, I'd be very happy to donate any and all organs that have any value after my death, since those can still be used by the living. As for the rest of my body, if science doesn't want it then I don't particularly care what happens to it. So far as I'm concerned that's no longer my body after I die, it's just dead meat.
If my family wants it buried then they can go right ahead; I wouldn't ask for such a thing though, paying money to lock that organic matter into a box, disrupting the process of biological recycling, in some elaborate procession that'll just give my loved ones a chance to cry in public (a pessimistic view I know, but that is honestly how I view funerals, I apologize if anyone takes that in a bad way).
If they want it cremated, fine by me. Keeping the ashes in a pretty jar on the mantle and my descendants may remember me for a few more generations, but that's hardly a big deal. Spread the ash around into the wind, it might still have usable nutrients in it, that's probably preferable, but I suppose if I'm dead I should at least let my family have the comfort of deciding what to do with that body I left behind.
The only thing I absolutely do not want happening is the body being defiled, since that's just scary to think about. Other than that, it doesn't matter much to me.
