New Age funerals

[FearlessLeader2]

If I had known how popular my idea was, I would have gotten the ball rolling sooner. I guess I'll have to get serious about framing my will and choosing an executor for it. I guess the best bet would be a lawyer, with a local party planning service chosen in advance(with the option to sub if that one is defuct by the time of my death) and a cheap but RELIABLE crematorium.

 

[goodbye_mr_bond]

In the unlikely event that death catches up with me before I unlock the secrets of eternal life, I plan to have the LEAST evironmentally-friendly death ever. My head shall be severed and frozen solid (requiring that I continue to need electrical power) until such a time as a cure for decapitation is found.

Did you know that, for a mere $50,000, one can sign up for the cryonic freezing of one's head? One can even use one's life insurance policy to do it. No joke, I'm already signed up.

As the saying goes, having the vital fluids pumped out of your head and replaced by protective chemicals before it is cryonically frozen for all eternity is only the second worst thing that can happen to you... :jump:

Any of you having any messages to pass on to Uncle Walt be sure to email me.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

Your earlier advice was better Fearless. First reactions are often the best.

 

[FearlessLeader2]

But I didn't change anything. It's still the same plan, I was just getting myself psyched up to go do it.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

It would take THAT much planning just to hold a good wake???

 

[Lt.Col. Kilgore]

One thing I'd like to say is that anyone who claims to be a selfless or humanitarian person would only opt to be a donor and be used in research and then be creamated. Theres a lot of land (cemetaries) being used to house piles of carbon (lifeless bodies). My mother's from Schuykill Co. Pennsylvania and there are so many cemetaries it defies logic! Get creamated and poured into the sea, get used for science, or get bent! Quit using up space and denying science the chance to use your dead body for research or denying needy people your organs because you want to be honoured with a beautiful tombstone that costs thousands that your grieving family must bare because you want the WHOLE smelly pile of carbon that was once your living body to be encapsulated in a beautiful, albeit, expensive casket! Whether you believe in an afterlife or not: YOUR BODY IS DEAD! ITS UNNECESSARY!

Nothing wrong with wakes though as long as they're upbeat. Kinda like the New Orleans funerals.

 

[goodbye_mr_bond]

That's a good point, Lt.Col. I'll donate my body--from the neck down, of course--to the further research of whatever it was that killed me. Unless it was brain-related.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

Ethicaly that's the soundest choice. However...

http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/kat/org_01bodybrokerspart3.html