fuck thousands for a coffin. or hundreds for an urn. can i legally be burried in butcher paper?

can i donate my body to science and skip burrial all together?

i want my final action to be a big middle finger to the funeral industry picking on people in their weakest moments.

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[–] 64 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Word of warning though, check out the company before you do so. My mother in law was in the medical field and had a coworker that did this. The company ended up refusing the body because they had too many bodies. I've also heard of your body being used to test munitions, which is pretty much the opposite of what a lot of people would want.

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  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Hey look, once my body is donated it's not my business what they do with it. I'm the same way that once I hand over spare change to the guy on the street, it's not my business what he does with it.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, but if, like OP, the intent of donating your body is to ensure that one exploitative industry (the funeral industry) doesn't profit from your death, you probably also want to make sure that other industries (like the military industrial complex) that you also don't like aren't going to be able to benefit either.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    In a sense, that's true. But we're also talking about making arrangements while we're alive, knowing that our wishes now will translate into action later.

    If I plant a tree so that my grandchildren might enjoy the shade, I'm still making a decision to do something based on what I believe the effects will be after I die.

    So if we're making decisions on where or how to donate our bodies after our deaths, we'd still generally want to choose a worthy cause.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes, that is possible. The paperwork for the place I am looking into specifically asks if you object to that and a number of other possible uses to which they may put your remains.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not that I’d personally care, but I don’t know that I’d trust that they wouldn’t just ignore those instructions. Who would call them out?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Indeed, dead men tell no tales, right? I'm with you though, I said yes to all the questions. I don't care if they shoot my corpse, or beat it with a bat, or use it as a party favor at the lab Christmas party. It's just meat, as far as I'm concerned and if their experiments help posterity then I'm all for it.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    i don't care what my corpse is used for if it helps people

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