23 Apr 2010, 1:51 pm
23 Apr 2010, 2:06 pm
23 Apr 2010, 2:17 pm
Alas, poor Yorick! It never ceases to amaze me how somber some of these discussions become. At the end of the day, a body is just a shell. It's a vehicle for getting the consciousness from point A to point B, while it's marooned on this planet. It can be used for utility or for sport, but when the consciousness vacates or abandons it, for whatever reason and under whatever circumstance, it's just a bag of meat. Unless someone intentionally goes to lengths to preserve it, it automatically disassembles and is recycled.
What I can't understand is why people insist on pumping it full of preservatives that are toxic to the living if they leech into the ground and which will over time only turn the corpse into a large blob of slimy soap - then sealing it in a ridiculously expensive box, inside a concrete vault, so it continues to take up space for no damned good reason. It's the same as hillbillies putting useless old cars up on blocks in their yards. At least they can claim that's some sort of folk-art decoration. If you bury a body in a concrete vault you can't even claim it's a decorative soap. 
As for the Egyptian Mummies - their entombment may have been seen as sacred within their culture, but their culture has been nonexistent for thousands of years. At least their accomplishments are still revered as having artistic value. No, if they were still here, they probably wouldn't appreciate the difference in point of view, those obsessively committed to a religious belief are rarely that adaptable. But if they weren't being respected and admired as historical artifacts, they'd still be slowly decomposing in the desert shadows, benefiting no one. I think we're being far less disrespectful to place them in museums than the grave robbers who stole most of their stuff shortly after the funerals were over. Those rapscallions were from the same culture and ripped off the dead, anyway. In their defense, sometimes that's the only way to get a rich man to part with a penny. 
I don't think I'd care to see art exhibits made of cadavers, but I'd be highly flattered if my clients were to leave their tattoos to their loved ones, to be framed and hung over the mantelpiece. Right above their cremation urn.
"and that snarling panther right there used to be Grandpa's right butt cheek...Would you like another Soylent cracker?" 
23 Apr 2010, 3:52 pm
23 Apr 2010, 4:04 pm
23 Apr 2010, 5:58 pm
What I can't understand is why people insist on pumping it full of preservatives that are toxic to the living if they leech into the ground and which will over time only turn the corpse into a large blob of slimy soap - then sealing it in a ridiculously expensive box, inside a concrete vault, so it continues to take up space for no damned good reason. It's the same as hillbillies putting useless old cars up on blocks in their yards. At least they can claim that's some sort of folk-art decoration. If you bury a body in a concrete vault you can't even claim it's a decorative soap.
Agreed. But what really pisses me off is the guilt tripping cost involved. We cremated my father for about $300. Then we went to an area in the mountains nearby called Sweet Annie's Hollow and sprinkled him there. It turns out that "Sweet Annie" was a camp following prostitute during the Revolutionary War and my father liked to crack jokes about how he wanted to be buried "in Sweet Annie's Hollow". So we did.
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23 Apr 2010, 6:16 pm
(On the original topic. I'm too caught up in this lol)
Holy crap!! You can BUY things like this? Without being super rich? (Or are they expensive...)
Jesus christ, where can I get a deformed skull collection? I already have a collection of photographs of things of this general nature hahahaha. A whole collection of deformed/malnourished bones of different types would be amazing... though skulls only would probably take up less space.
Ahhhhh- off to do some research now...
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23 Apr 2010, 6:35 pm
What I can't understand is why people insist on pumping it full of preservatives that are toxic to the living if they leech into the ground and which will over time only turn the corpse into a large blob of slimy soap - then sealing it in a ridiculously expensive box, inside a concrete vault, so it continues to take up space for no damned good reason. It's the same as hillbillies putting useless old cars up on blocks in their yards. At least they can claim that's some sort of folk-art decoration. If you bury a body in a concrete vault you can't even claim it's a decorative soap.
As for the Egyptian Mummies - their entombment may have been seen as sacred within their culture, but their culture has been nonexistent for thousands of years. At least their accomplishments are still revered as having artistic value. No, if they were still here, they probably wouldn't appreciate the difference in point of view, those obsessively committed to a religious belief are rarely that adaptable. But if they weren't being respected and admired as historical artifacts, they'd still be slowly decomposing in the desert shadows, benefiting no one. I think we're being far less disrespectful to place them in museums than the grave robbers who stole most of their stuff shortly after the funerals were over. Those rapscallions were from the same culture and ripped off the dead, anyway. In their defense, sometimes that's the only way to get a rich man to part with a penny.
I don't think I'd care to see art exhibits made of cadavers, but I'd be highly flattered if my clients were to leave their tattoos to their loved ones, to be framed and hung over the mantelpiece. Right above their cremation urn.
"and that snarling panther right there used to be Grandpa's right butt cheek...Would you like another Soylent cracker?"
This whole post cracked me up. In a good, getting your point across way. Honestly some people on this website should be writers. XD
When I die, I would like my body donated to science. No one's gonna visit my grave anyways, so I'd rather they take the funeral money and throw a party to celebrate that I'm happier dead, and they are still alive.
23 Apr 2010, 6:47 pm
My dad is donating his body to science…. He has multiple sclerosis so the MS research labs out here in Colorado have an interest in his brain….
Some time in the future some lab tech is going to slice my dads brains into little slices and display them on slides or something along those lines.
And basically the rest of his body is going to be dissected like a slab of meat.
I know this because I’ve had a few cadaver labs back in the day…..
23 Apr 2010, 6:51 pm
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24 Apr 2010, 12:01 pm
I love taxidermy. I taxidermied a hamster, once. It was hideous, but pretty funny looking.
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24 Apr 2010, 2:28 pm
Have you seen the site crappy taxidermy? Hilarious stuff on there
LINK
24 Apr 2010, 4:14 pm
OMG 
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