Life after death

[gilana]

I really like this author's blog in general, but this post particularly moved me. It's about an unusual memorial service… I don't want to say too much and spoil it. Just read it, but preferably someplace where you can shed a quiet tear if you find yourself as moved as I was.

http://loveasafoundobject.blogspot.com/2009/05/ways-of-passing.html

Comments

[kimberlogic.livejournal.com]

Wow. Thank you so much for sharing this. It was incredibly moving and thought-provoking.

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

wow.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

thanks for posting this. that's really excellent.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting that.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

I researched it a bit, because it's something I might wanna do, and it looks like you can't be an organ donor *and* donate your body to science. (Nobody should take my word for that if you're really pursuing the matter tho -- I read it on one med school's guidelines but that's hardly the same as researching extensively.) Shame if that's always the case! I think I'd want to be an organ donor first; but if for some reason none of my organs were donate-able, then I'd be happy to have the body go to science, since my family has no traditions (religious or other) that would interfere with that at all. So really, no reason not to.

If I did do the organ donor thing, I think I'd want a Green Burial afterwards... but if it ended up the donating to science, then my fam has plenty of ashes-scattering traditions to go with, once the ashes were returned.

Am I thinkin' about all this too much for somebody young and healthy? :D Thanks again for posting this. I find the idea of my death doing *somebody* some good really uplifting. A little bit of a "Tenth Good Thing about Barney" feeling.

[rainbow-spork.livejournal.com]

Wow. Thanks for posting that.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the link; I'm glad I read that.

[catness.livejournal.com]

That was pretty awesome.

My mother was a paraplegic and always intended to leave her body (for science!), but after her own mother died she got maudlin and sentimental and wanted to be buried next to her. Which she was, two short years later. I've always regretted that she didn't go ahead with her original plan. When I was little, we used to joke with each other, "When I grow up, I want to be a cadaver!!"

Eh. I still can be. ;)