+25 You'll donate your body somewhere after you die if you can, instead of just burying it or cremating it, amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I would like to be either cremated or have my body donated to science. I can't stand the thought of being trapped in a box, even after I'm dead.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I'd recommend the latter, since it can be used for something and be of assistance

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I think that would be harder on the family though. Hopefully I'll have a while before I need to make any serious decisions about the matter.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I understand. I think that if anything, though, it should be easier on them, knowing that even in death you're trying to help the world. But since most people wouldn't see it that way, I'd understand if you put them first

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I don't see the logic in being buried. It's very expensive and I'm wasting space on a designated plot of land even after I am dead. Does anyone know why it's a big thing?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

A big part of it is tradition, and for the comfort of relatives and loved ones; to know they they're resting in eternity in a more expensive bed then they themselves are

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I'd prefer to be cremated. We have these actual dead bodies on display in a local museum, who died fairly recently, and I would never want that to happen to me.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

But then wouldn't you then prefer to be an organ donor or something? Or a donation to scientific research? Not to a museum?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I would donate my organs, but then be cremated. As for the research, I don't know why, I wouldn't want people studying me and doing things to my body.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yeah, to each their own. I understand that

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I am an organ donor so they can take my organs if they get to me soon enough but I want the rest of me to be cremated.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That actually sounds like a perfect balance. That way, you help, and you give your family the security of knowing you're where you want to be in death

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Exactly :)

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I want to either be donated to science or be buried in a biodegradable coffin.

by Anonymous 11 years ago