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Pedestal 42
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Pedestal 42 asked in Society & CultureReligion & Spirituality · 1 decade ago

What do Atheists (or others) do with their bodies when they die?

This a near-repeat of Sarah's question, not far below, since although she's asking atheists she's blocked me.

I'm having any useful organs donated and re-used, and my brain has been offered a short but interesting post in research at Oxford university once I've finished with it. (Seriously: it is unusually wired and they want to examine it. It's already been scanned at Cambridge University.)

The rest of me will be cremated and I, as ashes, will take a final trip on my local steam railway, this time in the loco firebox, going to wind and clinker.

How about you?

Update:

I'm amazed at the proportion of prospective donors... Good on you all.

For those who expressed an interest the brain bank project is at

http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/science_blog/090128.html

And, while they are requesting brains with a range of conditions including Alzheimer’s, I have Asperger's syndrome so I'm in on the autism project. (Or will be!)

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
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    I am an organ donor and hope my organs can go to those who need them. Otherwise I would like to be cremated and have my ashes be used in some sort of work of art.

    That or be made into pencils.

    Source(s): http://www.nadinejarvis.com/projects/carbon_copies
  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Here's a past of how I answered that one:

    I intend to be put on a funeral pyre by my family and burned. I am not an organ donor. I know I should be, but it creeps me out. I don't know why. It just does. Here is how I imagine the entire process of my death will go. I die. I go to the coroner. He does or doesn't do an autopsy, depending on state law and circumstance. At this point a funeral parlor would normally claim my body. Instead, someone with a pickup will claim my body. I will be tossed unceremoniously in the back. At some point I will be wrapped in sheets which well be bound. I will arrive at someones farm property where there will be various snacks and boozes. I will be tossed on a giant pile of wood and my friends will light it. Partying commences.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    If my organs are still any good by the time I die, I hope they recycle them/ am an organ donor... I really wish I could have the rest composted and used to grow some great tomatoes , but I suspect that is not allowed... and meat doesn't really compost well, so I guess someone will have to burn or bury the rest... I don't really care, as I will be DEAD/no longer a being, just a (pleasant I hope) memory for those who knew me....

  • Maria
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    My body will be examined when I die because I have an unusual space between my skull and frontal lobes. I also had a shoulder reconstruction surgery that will be examined so that doctors will know how successful it is over time. Once these exams are done, I have a funeral spot in a Catholic cemetary where I have already purchased a stone so that my fellow Catholics can pray for me while I am in purgatory.

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  • Amaira
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    I am only 20 so I don't really have that all planned out yet. I am more worried about living then what is gonna happen when I die since when I'm dead I won't give a sh*t anymore. I do know this, I will not be buried in a coffin. I refuse to make my loved ones pay a ridiculous sum of money on a box.

  • .
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    What ever will be left of me after donating organs gets cremated and tossed into Atlantic

    I like the idea with your brain :)

  • GodotIsWaiting4U
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    It depends on how wealthy I am when I die. If I'm fabulously wealthy, I shall have pre-arranged for entombment after having any useful organs harvested. Otherwise, I shall be cremated after having any useful organs harvested, and the ashes shall be interred in a cemetery, most likely.

  • Selene
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Donating all usable organs then being cremated and dumped over the bay of my hometown

    Source(s): Pagan
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I've donated whatever parts they might want and my ashes are to be unceremoniously dumped over the fence of the Triumph Motorcycle factory in Hinckley, England.

  • Return of Wonder Weirdo
    1 decade ago

    I plan to have my organs donated, and the rest of my body cooked up and served as the main course at a memorial dinner in my honor.

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