How do you want to be dealt with when you pass on?

Chemical Burn · 09-03-2013 10:23PM #1

I want to donate as much as possible of my body to science and organ donations as possible. I have an extremely rare genetic condition (nothing serious), it only affects 1 in 2,500 or 3,000, therefore some of my parts, particularly my brain will be of keen interest to researchers in this field. However, I have hear from numerous sources that in hospitals and colleges, when dealing with the deceased as part of medical research, the bodies are treated with the utmost of disrespect and the body is not returned to family, but cremated afterwards, which changed my mind drastically about donating so to science. I do however want to donate as many functioning organs as possible to those who need them. I want to be buried afterwards.

tl;dr: How do you want to be dealt with when you pass on?

I want to donate my organs and be buried after.

Witcher · 09-03-2013 10:26PM

Chemical Burn wrote: »

the body is not returned to family, but cremated afterwards, which changed my mind drastically about donating so to science.

The institution will pay for the body to be cremated and the ashes returned to the family or the family can make their own arrangements for burial/cremation at their own expense. That's how UCD's medical faculty does it anyway.

Gatling · 09-03-2013 10:26PM

Cooked and served in a bun along with some tesco finest chips and onion rings,

Pushtrak · 09-03-2013 10:27PM

Chemical Burn wrote: »

However, I have hear from numerous sources that in hospitals and colleges, when dealing with the deceased as part of medical research, the bodies are treated with the utmost of disrespect and the body is not returned to family, but cremated afterwards, which changed my mind drastically about donating so to science.

How reliable are these sources, firstly? All types of sources come out with things that... lack substantiation. Secondly, for my part, when I'm dead, I'll be less inclined to take respect or disrespect seriously.

BillyMitchel · 09-03-2013 10:28PM

Cremation - Organs to donation

Cremated with my ashes released over the African plains. Not even my family can fock this one up.

Simplz.

Nolimits · 09-03-2013 10:29PM

Cremation - body entirely to Science

I've made it clear to my family that I'd like any organs that are of any use to be donated and then I want to be cremated in the cheapest coffin possible, cardboard preferably.

Chemical Burn · 09-03-2013 10:29PM

Burial - body entirely to Science

It's my family who'll probably want a body to bid goodbye and a grave to mourn at.

Banjo String · 09-03-2013 10:30PM

Bury me at sea Where no murdered ghost can haunt me.
If I rock upon the waves, Then no corpse can lie upon me.

Witcher · 09-03-2013 10:30PM

Chemical Burn wrote: »

It's my family who'll probably want a boy to bid goodbye and a grave to mourn at.

You seem to be obsessed with boys:pac:..even in the poll;

Cremation - Donate organs to organ donation and boy to science

Banjo String · 09-03-2013 10:31PM

Chemical Burn wrote: »

It's my family who'll probably want a boy to bid goodbye and a grave to mourn at.

Are they anti-girl or something?

Ted_YNWA · 09-03-2013 10:31PM

Embalmed & put on national display as I am a treasure to be preserved & admired for futures generations.

kowloon · 09-03-2013 10:32PM

I want to be blown up on the beach by Gormanstown firing range and left for the Fulmars that live up in the cliff there.
I'm not suitable for organ donation anyway.

johnayo · 09-03-2013 10:33PM

Cremation - body entirely to Science

Just let me burn.:rolleyes:

Odelay · 09-03-2013 10:33PM

Whack me into a skip out the back, when I'm gone, I'm gone.
If a few happy tunes could be played then that would be all the better. It would be over for me, let the rest have a good time. What else could you want?

Peregrine · 09-03-2013 10:49PM

Burial - body entirely to Science

Cremation - Donate organs to organ donation and boy to science

Burial - Donate organs to organ donation and boy to science

I assume you don't mean donating my future son for hospital research

padd b1975 · 09-03-2013 10:52PM

Burial - Organs to donation

Just bury me.

No asset stripping.

BBDBB · 09-03-2013 10:53PM

full viking burial

senorwipesalot · 09-03-2013 10:56PM

I dont give a sh1t if im left out with the following Tuesdays bin collection.

Its landfill for me ,yes siree.

aN.Droid · 09-03-2013 10:56PM

Shot into the sun

Johro · 09-03-2013 11:00PM

Yeah, regardless of whether you want to be an organ donor or not, (why the hell not ffs), I mourn the lack of options other than burial or cremation.
I'd be happy for them to get anything viable off my body once I have no need for it anymore.
Not the face though. :pac:
After that, I don't care what they do with the rest. Send it to Findus for all I care.

Johro · 09-03-2013 11:06PM

OP did remind me though to sort out my organ donor card, I've been wanting to do that for ages, kept forgetting. Must check it out, I think you have to notify your parents or next of kin of your decision to be an organ donor?
Something like that anyway, will check it out.
An opt out system would be infinitely preferable.

hfallada · 09-03-2013 11:11PM

As along as i don't end up like communist leader guy that died like 50 Years ago and has so much preservative on him it's like he died yesterday. And is in a glass case for everyone to admire.

Anything but that

Liam90 · 09-03-2013 11:17PM

Cremation - body entirely to Science

Organs donated and cremated with my ashes sprinkled into lake Wakatipu in New Zealand which is where my fondest childhood memories are, Queenstown is where my family and i went every summer on holiday.

ZzubZzub · 09-03-2013 11:17PM

Cremation - body entirely to Science

I'd donate anything of use, bar my eyes and my skin. The thought of someone else having my eyes creeps me out. Yes, yes, I'd be dead and none the wiser, but still.

Afterwards, I'm not sure. I think my family would like to be able to bury me, as a place to mourn. But I think something like this would be lovely http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/poetree-a-funeral-urn-that-lets-you-plant-a-tree-from-ashes.html

I should probably discuss this with my family... My partner knows but he's not an official NOK.

Chemical Burn · 09-03-2013 11:19PM

Burial - body entirely to Science

Can a moderator please add an "undecided" option ?

bnt · 09-03-2013 11:21PM

Burial - Donate organs to organ donation and boy to science

I plan to donate my body to science fiction. It could inspire some new alien races. Failing that, let the medical students at university have a rummage around inside. No-one will want my organs after I'm through with them, and the poor kids could use a good laugh ..!

Johro · 09-03-2013 11:33PM

Cleeo wrote: »

I'd donate anything of use, bar my eyes and my skin. The thought of someone else having my eyes creeps me out. Yes, yes, I'd be dead and none the wiser, but still.

Afterwards, I'm not sure. I think my family would like to be able to bury me, as a place to mourn. But I think something like this would be lovely http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/poetree-a-funeral-urn-that-lets-you-plant-a-tree-from-ashes.html

I should probably discuss this with my family... My partner knows but he's not an official NOK.

My best friend died a few years ago, and I was there in the hospital when she died, at her bedside, and I can tell you that after she passed away it wasn't long before I realised that her body was just a shell. Something leaves it when life leaves it and it really is just a shell that houses I don't know what, the spirit, life force, whatever you might call it. Her. Her light went out.
I'm not religious or anything, but it just feels like what's left in that hospital bed has nothing to do with who inhabited it. Your eyes are just lenses really, and someone else's lifeforce would make them different, they wouldn't be your eyes.

twowheelsonly · 09-03-2013 11:36PM

Cleeo wrote: »

I'd donate anything of use, bar my eyes and my skin. The thought of someone else having my eyes creeps me out. Yes, yes, I'd be dead and none the wiser, but still.

I'm the opposite, purely because the only viable part left in me will probably be my eyes!!
40 Fags a day and a love of dodgy grub should put paid to the rest of me :-)

I do want to buried though, purely so I can turn to some of the former health fanatics in the cemetery and ask them what the flock they're doing there

No point in dying healthy IMO.

irish son · 09-03-2013 11:38PM

I don't care what they do with my body, I'll be dead, its not like I'll notice the difference.

Johro · 09-03-2013 11:42PM

twowheelsonly wrote: »

I'm the opposite, purely because the only viable part left in me will probably be my eyes!!
40 Fags a day and a love of dodgy grub should put paid to the rest of me :-)

I do want to buried though, purely so I can turn to some of the former health fanatics in the cemetery and ask them what the flock they're doing there

No point in dying healthy IMO.

Ah, it depends on your genes really, some people smoke and drink and do everything in excess for years and are none the worse for it, others get cancer from looking at a steakhouse menu. You're probably one of the lucky bastards. :P That's not to say you shouldn't look after yourself but people can also worry themselves into an early grave.

Cungi · 09-03-2013 11:49PM

Fire my coffin into deep space. None of this low earth orbit crap. Hopefully some aliens with figure out how to reanimate my corpse. Not looking forward to the probing though. Ah sure i'll be dead i wont even feel it.

How do you want to be dealt with when you pass on?

How do you want to be dealt with when you pass on? 125 votes

Comments