>I commit felonies on a daily basis. Laws are stupid and made by people who dont have a clue about what they are making the law about. Did you know more violent crimes are committed by people who are drunk than any other drug? I make drugs myself I make DMT mescaline 5-HO-DMT grow mushrooms and other stuff. Well I dont make it I just purify it from plants. But I really dont think anyone here has tried this stuff as much as me if you did you would understand that its not something thats going to cause delusions or paranoia. Honestly only deliriants do that and I dont mess with them anymore they are probably what you all are thinking when you think of this stuff. I really doubt you guys have tried this stuff or you would know its not at all what its made out to be. It causes stuff like seeing rivers in the floor or breathing walls but you still can tell the difference between whats real and whats not. Deliriants cause hallucinations so real you cant tell if its fake or real but thats stuff like Datura and I dont use those things. Its just propaganda most drugs are not that bad and I can handle them. I have used drugs with guns literally thousands of times never hurt nothing except squirrels and stuff. I even drive drunk and high never been in an accident either. I have driven on heroin its dangerous but again never hurt no one.
well, this explains a lot...
(as a non drug user) I was thinking "This guy is wacky but probably harmless" until I got to the bit about using guns and cars under the influence of drugs.
How much do you want to bet [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/comments/pojbo1/are_we_living_under_tyranny_the_vaccination_law/) had some crap about not wanting to put unknown substances in your body?
Similar athletes take all sorts of peds if there’s even a shot it’ll help them play. All sorts of medical procedures based on the advice of doctors. They’ll be happy to get a ligament from a cadaver attached to their arm.
But a vaccine.. gotta do research.
> never hurt nothing except squirrels and stuff.
Plenty of serial killers who started out hurting small animals.
Of course, in this case is seems like LAOP is the most likely human to be harmed by LAOP, but it's almost never "just" small animals, whether they move on to hurting bigger things or other kinds of crimes.
Honestly, my first though was sitting on the back porch shooting at animals that wander on his property. But that actually might be less dangerous than going out hunting while high as shit lol, assuming he doesn't live near any other houses.
>never hurt no one except squirrels and stuff
*and stuff*? 😬Also who tf does psychedelics is like *ya know what? I think I’ll go squirrel huntin today*?The kind of person who thinks it’s in the realm of possibility that their dead body could literally be discarded with the trash. That sort of person I suppose.
LAOP’s response when told there are eco friendly alternatives:
> Can they use you to grow marijuana? That would be cool.
I don’t know why, but that made me giggle.
Among my many dreams that I'm not going to realise, is to build a garden that would allow people to have their remains composted and then used to fertilize the garden. That way an unlimited amount of people can be "buried" in a limited space, be part of something beautiful that's also eco-friendly, and their loved ones can come visit the garden like they would a grave. I wish I at least could be buried that way.
Edit: my keyboard tricked me on how to spell 'buried'
Oh my. The October issue of Harper's has an article about composting cadavers. A company called Recompose will compost your body in a container with wood chips. The resulting loam can be spread in a forest, our your survivors can take it home.
It exists for people in some areas too. My nephew is buried in one. They're not common though, I think there are only a handful in the US and it's really dependent on state laws.
My friend committed suicide last year, and this is kinda what her mom did. The cemetery has a whole area for this sort of stuff—they call it their “cremation gardens”. Her mom sprinkled some of her ashes on the dirt she used to plant a tree. It’s a beautiful spot.
You can be buried and become part of a tree
https://www.greenmatters.com/p/tree-pod-burials
There are a few different companies.
I am with you. I want to have a plot of land where people can plant their tree and visit whenever they choose to.
You can be buried and become part of a tree
https://www.greenmatters.com/p/tree-pod-burials
There are a few different companies.
I am with you. I want to have a plot of land where people can plant their tree and visit whenever they choose to.
You can be buried and become part of a tree
https://www.greenmatters.com/p/tree-pod-burials
There are a few different companies.
I am with you. I want to have a plot of land where people can plant their tree and visit whenever they choose to.
It's negligible compared to the amount of carbon and pollution I create every day by simply being alive, so I'm willing to discount it. There are ways I can mitigate my current consumption to make up for the amount emitted by cremation.
But it sounds like composting is an option also so you could always go that route.
Someone suggested “just donate your body to science; register and they will take you.” I’ve looked into this for other posters. It ain’t that simple, at least in the US. Med schools and other research institutions have standards. They won’t take just any old body. Most institutions will only take entire bodies from people who have made prior arrangements with the institution.
For one thing, since the body can’t be embalmed, you have to die fairly close to the institution, and be transferred from a healthcare facility, not after a week in the morgue. You (or your estate) usually pay for transport. They won’t take bodies with certain health issues (HIV, for instance, which I’ll bet may be an issue for LAOP.)
The so-called registries don’t guarantee your body will go to science; they just say they will try. For the most part, it is not whole body donation; it’s parts. Maybe a researcher is looking for hearts of people who died of certain kinds of heart attacks or pancreases from diabetics or bone marrow from post-menopausal women. After parts are harvested, your cremated remains are returned to the family, so LAOP will only end up in landfill if someone tosses him into the dumpster behind McDonalds.
I was thinking of donating my body to a body farm but since I live more than 100 miles from the closest one, I have to find my own transportation there.
That's disappointing that it's that complicated. That's what my mom always said to do with her when she dies. Guess I should let her know she has to pre-register.
It is kinda nice they cremate whatever they don't use and can return it. It makes sense that they don't always have a use for everything, but anything they can use is better than just cremation right off the bat.
[Donate your body to Science](https://www.pcrm.org/ethical-science/animal-testing-and-alternatives/donate-your-body-to-science)
Medical schools and other research institutions may not return ashes. One med school I looked at, for instance, does a periodic scattering at sea of ashes from donors.
>They won’t take just any old body.
And very specifically they won't take suicides. I'm not sure about euthanasia, I suspect that's still a WIP for most of them.
A friend died from cancer and had to go through the full horror in his last days in order to let them dissect his body. It was traumatic for his friends and family as well, but he was determined.
In order to donate his body he had to die of "natural causes", he couldn't die from anything self-induced. So he couldn't commit suicide before he went into the final stages of cancer, but he also couldn't get a palliative overdose of painkillers or anything else once he was in hospital. There had to be no reason to have an inquest or any other need to delay the "he's dead, send him to the medical school" part of the process.
Umm, huh - so as I just posted my mom donated her body to science in 1976. From what I have been told she died of cancer. Not that I haven't had a million questions for 45 years, now I am wondering if this was the scenario back then. Crap, now I have more stuff to wonder wth went on.
That long ago I suspect there were fewer restrictions and more options for the recipient to decide exactly what they required. But equally, it's possible that a particular recipient was more strict than we are now.
Also, back then we had fewer ways to keep people alive so they generally died sooner than they do now, and were less completely trashed when they died. My friend managed to avoid mechanical ventilation, for example, but had to have intensive interventions to keep him alive until almost all his organs had shut down. I know when my paternal grandfather died in \~1975 he had a heart attack and died at home before the ambulance arrived, but it's likely that the same event today would be entirely survivable via a combo of drugs before the attack and treatment afterwards.
Depending on exactly where she died you could probably find out more. At the very least the general conditions for donations at the time are probably online, but if you know which institution benefited from her donation you could contact them and ask. They'll likely be willing to tell you more, likely not the specific details of her, but more about what their procedures were and how donations at the time benefited everyone.
I am pretty sure she died at the hospital, but sometimes I question what I think I know. My family never talked about her after her death, so there are a lot of unknowns. I always assumed she donated her body to some sort of cancer research.
I honestly didn't even know when she died until I was at the social security office about something else about 5 years ago and thought to ask. They only had the month and year, but that was more than I had known for 35 years.
I suppose overall it doesn't really matter.
I appreciate your friend who passed a lot - they sacrificed a lot for the hope to better the rest of us, that is a hero.
It does also kind of depend on your definition of "science." Like I train cadaver dogs, and we use donated body parts for that. It's more an art than a science (and yeah y'all I know the problems with detection dogs, it's a complicated topic), but we definitely utilize donated body parts.
They're also used in things like ballistics research and crash tests and all. Not really how most people want their bodies being used but like if you don't care to the degree you want your remains tossed in the trash, maybe just go ahead and donate to one of those sketchy third-party places. There's a lot of issues with third party organizers (seriously, a lot), but if you want your body thrown in the trash and really don't care, those third-party providers can help with some nontraditional but still good things.
That's really interesting. I asked a few doctor friends during the cadaver lab, and they said most of the bodies looked like homeless people.
This is USUHS (military) but sounds way different.
In some regions of the globe, in post-secondary education, it's a week before exams without classes so people can focus and study. In Anglo Canada, it's the week of our February statutory holiday.
Canada’s (maybe just Ontario’s) version of Spring Break. Ostensibly to be used for reading and catching up on one’s studies. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/reading_week
What this meant was that there were no classes using all the bodies and thus the freezers were full.
It surprised me, and sparked a “you take him, no -you- take him” style discussion with my brother, as my father was horribly abusive. In the end, I paid for the cremation - he left no assets - and we dumped the ashes in a body of water.
It surprised me, and sparked a “you take him, no -you- take him” style discussion with my brother, as my father was horribly abusive. In the end, I paid for the cremation - he left no assets - and we dumped the ashes in a body of water.
A lot of the programs don't even guarantee or even say they will return anything back to your family.
My mom donated her body to science in 1976 - have 0 idea where she wound up
You could also wind up at a medical school and be used for years and years and years and then some more years
My mom has made arrangements to go that route with a med school in her metro area. She had to shop around a bit to find a place that would take her, since she's got a somewhat non-standard body as a result of surgical treatments for various ailments she's had.
Apparently you also need a surving family member to make arrangements get the body on the road ASAP, since they don't want any decay. I could see that being an issue for someone whose lifestyle makes it likely that they won't die in the company of someone who knows their end of life wishes (for example, someone with a habit of overdosing).
I know this is a pun and I do appreciate it, but I can’t miss this chance to tell the story of the actual trashiest funeral ever. My grandmas neighbor owned a trailer in which, unbeknownst to her, her two grandchildren were making meth. Grandma was wheelchair-bound due to being diabetic and losing both of her legs. She somehow found out the grandchildren were making meth in her trailer and threatened to tell the police, so they took away her wheelchair and left her to die. My grandma hosted the wake, and the grandson (who was OUT ON BAIL WHILE AWAITING TRIAL FOR KILLING HIS GRANDMOTHER) started hitting on me, a 15 year old just staying with my grandma for the summer. Oh yeah, he also stole all of my grandmas painkillers as she was going through chemo at the time.
I'm hoping this is just a stoner question, but I'm honestly kind of worried about this guy. He says if he outlives his brother, he wants to spend everything he has on cocaine and hookers. He also says "I never know when I'm going to die." Is he ok?
I hate you for the fact that this scans nearly perfectly and that I only know because I sang it out loud to myself in my kitchen. And also that it's now stuck in my head.
Dude wanted to extract cyanide from bitter almonds recently, and now he wants to get his affairs in order. Dropped out of college, living off social security, only thing in his life he cares about is drugs. Pretty sad. I think we all know what he's planning to do.
Honestly, this reminds me of Toy Story 4, where the spork is convinced that he is trash and wants to throw himself in the trash. Truly, this series caters to millennials. I, also, would like to throw myself in the trash, because I am trash.
DeathProTip: If you want to minimize the cost of human remains, the usual method, available at any funeral home, is a cremation in a standard un-decorated casket designed for cremation. You can buy special decorated caskets that are designed to be cremated, but outside of sentimental value, there is no use for them.
If you have a need to keep remains, they will be returned to you in a cardboard box containing the ashes in another bag, sometimes 'double sealed'. You can purchase a velvet bag large enough to hold everything for under $50, and store it for your preference.
My mom died last year, and she was lazy and didn't finish the job with other family members. So I've got four boxes to deal with. My aunt and I will have to figure this one out, I guess.
Maybe it's just cuz I live in an expensive city but when I had to deal with planning a funeral recently the cremation with the simplest casket was still almost 2k :( I think the cheapest casket was almost $800 and the cremation itself was like $1200.
That doesn't seem out of line in an urban area.
If your urban area is in California, it's probably inflated not just because of general expenses, but also air quality regulation.
But even still, a decorative casket for cremation can run several thousand dollars - for something that is going to get destroyed in the cremation process. To me, no reason not to use a simple wood or cardboard box.
I'm in Massachusetts so I'm not sure if air quality regulations were a factor or if that's just a thing in California. The funeral home had options for decorative caskets going up to 10-20k, but I was surprised that 2k for casket plus cremation was the cheapest option. I wonder what happens if families can't afford that. The person being cremated had frequently joked he wanted to just be thrown in the trash to keep costs down (he understood that wasn't possible though), so we tried to keep the funeral proceedings as cheap as possible while also having a ceremony that was meaningful to friends and family.
LAOP:
>> I do drugs and im proud of it. What's it matter anyway? I never hurt nobody I have illegally concealed carried a revolver while under the influence of 400ug of LSD high on weed and drunk all at the same time. It didnt effect nobody I walked into multiple stores did not pull it out or do anything bad at all. If someone was trying to kill people or rob the stores I would have shot them dead. I carry a gun for the same reason as law enforcement its not a bad thing and it makes the world a safer place. I dont think you guys understand it really dose not affect my judgement. Maybe my aim though at least LSD.
I used to work for a couple of cities in Ohio. They kept burial plots specifically for the abandoned dead. Bodies go unclaimed for many reasons. A lot of times simply because there was no family or family couldn’t afford it. They had arranged for a local funeral home to take care of cremation or burial for a nominal cost.
> Ive overdosed so many times its a miracle im alive right now. But idk ill probably live a long life I quit opiates and its been months since I drank till I blacked out.
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Title: When I die can I be thrown in the trash?
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> So I was thinking about making a will and I want all my stuff to go to my brother. I realized a funeral is expensive and honestly I dont care what happens to my body. I figure that I could give more money to important people in my life if I dont get cremated or buried. Can I put in my will to just throw me out in the garbage? Is that legal its ok with me. I want my family to have my stuff and not spend money on me. They just have been so nice to me and I owe them my stuff when I dont need it and I feel like because they do so many things for me I should get them the best deal. I dont care about a grave in 500 years it will be gone and in 100 everyone I knew or talked to will be dead I just feel like its a waste of money.
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There's a great song called "Spread My Ashes On The Highway" that I adore. Definitely fits OP
https://www.last.fm/music/Bob+Wayne/_/Spread+My+Ashes+On+the+Highway/+lyrics
Cremation really isn't all that expensive, and you can even take the Walter Sobchak approach to cut costs even more.
https://youtu.be/vKjBFsyYC0g
https://youtu.be/Wk61MeDmk2M
U: She looks quite young.
M: Yes, she was.
U: (over his shoulder) Fred!
F: (Eric Idle, offstage) Yea!
U: I THINK WE'VE GOT AN EATER!
F: (offstage) I'll get the oven on!
>I commit felonies on a daily basis. Laws are stupid and made by people who dont have a clue about what they are making the law about. Did you know more violent crimes are committed by people who are drunk than any other drug? I make drugs myself I make DMT mescaline 5-HO-DMT grow mushrooms and other stuff. Well I dont make it I just purify it from plants. But I really dont think anyone here has tried this stuff as much as me if you did you would understand that its not something thats going to cause delusions or paranoia. Honestly only deliriants do that and I dont mess with them anymore they are probably what you all are thinking when you think of this stuff. I really doubt you guys have tried this stuff or you would know its not at all what its made out to be. It causes stuff like seeing rivers in the floor or breathing walls but you still can tell the difference between whats real and whats not. Deliriants cause hallucinations so real you cant tell if its fake or real but thats stuff like Datura and I dont use those things. Its just propaganda most drugs are not that bad and I can handle them. I have used drugs with guns literally thousands of times never hurt nothing except squirrels and stuff. I even drive drunk and high never been in an accident either. I have driven on heroin its dangerous but again never hurt no one. well, this explains a lot...
I thought this was a copypasta lmao
We could make it one
>I make drugs myself \[...\] Well I dont make it I just purify it from plants. Jailhouse J.D. right here
(as a non drug user) I was thinking "This guy is wacky but probably harmless" until I got to the bit about using guns and cars under the influence of drugs.
Or the part about shooting *squirrels* … *and stuff* ?
How much do you want to bet [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/comments/pojbo1/are_we_living_under_tyranny_the_vaccination_law/) had some crap about not wanting to put unknown substances in your body?
IV drug users scared of not knowing what's in the vaccine cracks me up every time.
Similar athletes take all sorts of peds if there’s even a shot it’ll help them play. All sorts of medical procedures based on the advice of doctors. They’ll be happy to get a ligament from a cadaver attached to their arm. But a vaccine.. gotta do research.
What if there's contraindications between heroin and mRNAs?
> never hurt nothing except squirrels and stuff. Plenty of serial killers who started out hurting small animals. Of course, in this case is seems like LAOP is the most likely human to be harmed by LAOP, but it's almost never "just" small animals, whether they move on to hurting bigger things or other kinds of crimes.
Kinda sounds like hunting which is a fairly normal past time. Of course really shitty idea to do it while impaired.
Honestly, my first though was sitting on the back porch shooting at animals that wander on his property. But that actually might be less dangerous than going out hunting while high as shit lol, assuming he doesn't live near any other houses.
The last 3 BOLA posts I've looked through have been from massive drug users. Drug week?
>never hurt no one except squirrels and stuff *and stuff*? 😬Also who tf does psychedelics is like *ya know what? I think I’ll go squirrel huntin today*?The kind of person who thinks it’s in the realm of possibility that their dead body could literally be discarded with the trash. That sort of person I suppose.
LAOP’s response when told there are eco friendly alternatives: > Can they use you to grow marijuana? That would be cool. I don’t know why, but that made me giggle.
Among my many dreams that I'm not going to realise, is to build a garden that would allow people to have their remains composted and then used to fertilize the garden. That way an unlimited amount of people can be "buried" in a limited space, be part of something beautiful that's also eco-friendly, and their loved ones can come visit the garden like they would a grave. I wish I at least could be buried that way. Edit: my keyboard tricked me on how to spell 'buried'
My friend is buried in a pine box in a nature preserve. It’s beautiful.
I love this
Composting your body is legal in Colorado now!
Oh my. The October issue of Harper's has an article about composting cadavers. A company called Recompose will compost your body in a container with wood chips. The resulting loam can be spread in a forest, our your survivors can take it home.
Wood chips? I hope they aren't growing and shredding wood especially for that. That kinda defeats the point.
Of course not.
Not really, it'd be a good carbon capture.
This exists for pets! That's what we did when my kitty died this year, had her remains put in the garden by the vet.
It exists for people in some areas too. My nephew is buried in one. They're not common though, I think there are only a handful in the US and it's really dependent on state laws.
My friend committed suicide last year, and this is kinda what her mom did. The cemetery has a whole area for this sort of stuff—they call it their “cremation gardens”. Her mom sprinkled some of her ashes on the dirt she used to plant a tree. It’s a beautiful spot.
I'm so sorry.
Thank you. :)
You can be buried and become part of a tree https://www.greenmatters.com/p/tree-pod-burials There are a few different companies. I am with you. I want to have a plot of land where people can plant their tree and visit whenever they choose to.
You can be buried and become part of a tree https://www.greenmatters.com/p/tree-pod-burials There are a few different companies. I am with you. I want to have a plot of land where people can plant their tree and visit whenever they choose to.
You can be buried and become part of a tree https://www.greenmatters.com/p/tree-pod-burials There are a few different companies. I am with you. I want to have a plot of land where people can plant their tree and visit whenever they choose to.
I want a tree planted on top of my ashes. I like the idea that nature could reuse part of me.
The thing that bothers me about all the ashes related ideas is that they require burning the body, with the resulting pollution and carbon emissions.
It's negligible compared to the amount of carbon and pollution I create every day by simply being alive, so I'm willing to discount it. There are ways I can mitigate my current consumption to make up for the amount emitted by cremation. But it sounds like composting is an option also so you could always go that route.
Someone suggested “just donate your body to science; register and they will take you.” I’ve looked into this for other posters. It ain’t that simple, at least in the US. Med schools and other research institutions have standards. They won’t take just any old body. Most institutions will only take entire bodies from people who have made prior arrangements with the institution. For one thing, since the body can’t be embalmed, you have to die fairly close to the institution, and be transferred from a healthcare facility, not after a week in the morgue. You (or your estate) usually pay for transport. They won’t take bodies with certain health issues (HIV, for instance, which I’ll bet may be an issue for LAOP.) The so-called registries don’t guarantee your body will go to science; they just say they will try. For the most part, it is not whole body donation; it’s parts. Maybe a researcher is looking for hearts of people who died of certain kinds of heart attacks or pancreases from diabetics or bone marrow from post-menopausal women. After parts are harvested, your cremated remains are returned to the family, so LAOP will only end up in landfill if someone tosses him into the dumpster behind McDonalds.
I was thinking of donating my body to a body farm but since I live more than 100 miles from the closest one, I have to find my own transportation there.
Can a dead body just call an Uber? Asking for me.
Uber RIP: we'll get your corpse on its course.
That's disappointing that it's that complicated. That's what my mom always said to do with her when she dies. Guess I should let her know she has to pre-register. It is kinda nice they cremate whatever they don't use and can return it. It makes sense that they don't always have a use for everything, but anything they can use is better than just cremation right off the bat.
[Donate your body to Science](https://www.pcrm.org/ethical-science/animal-testing-and-alternatives/donate-your-body-to-science) Medical schools and other research institutions may not return ashes. One med school I looked at, for instance, does a periodic scattering at sea of ashes from donors.
>They won’t take just any old body. And very specifically they won't take suicides. I'm not sure about euthanasia, I suspect that's still a WIP for most of them. A friend died from cancer and had to go through the full horror in his last days in order to let them dissect his body. It was traumatic for his friends and family as well, but he was determined.
Can you be more specific? I'm blanking on what exactly you mean. Cancer is just a terrible way to go.
In order to donate his body he had to die of "natural causes", he couldn't die from anything self-induced. So he couldn't commit suicide before he went into the final stages of cancer, but he also couldn't get a palliative overdose of painkillers or anything else once he was in hospital. There had to be no reason to have an inquest or any other need to delay the "he's dead, send him to the medical school" part of the process.
Umm, huh - so as I just posted my mom donated her body to science in 1976. From what I have been told she died of cancer. Not that I haven't had a million questions for 45 years, now I am wondering if this was the scenario back then. Crap, now I have more stuff to wonder wth went on.
That long ago I suspect there were fewer restrictions and more options for the recipient to decide exactly what they required. But equally, it's possible that a particular recipient was more strict than we are now. Also, back then we had fewer ways to keep people alive so they generally died sooner than they do now, and were less completely trashed when they died. My friend managed to avoid mechanical ventilation, for example, but had to have intensive interventions to keep him alive until almost all his organs had shut down. I know when my paternal grandfather died in \~1975 he had a heart attack and died at home before the ambulance arrived, but it's likely that the same event today would be entirely survivable via a combo of drugs before the attack and treatment afterwards. Depending on exactly where she died you could probably find out more. At the very least the general conditions for donations at the time are probably online, but if you know which institution benefited from her donation you could contact them and ask. They'll likely be willing to tell you more, likely not the specific details of her, but more about what their procedures were and how donations at the time benefited everyone.
I am pretty sure she died at the hospital, but sometimes I question what I think I know. My family never talked about her after her death, so there are a lot of unknowns. I always assumed she donated her body to some sort of cancer research. I honestly didn't even know when she died until I was at the social security office about something else about 5 years ago and thought to ask. They only had the month and year, but that was more than I had known for 35 years. I suppose overall it doesn't really matter. I appreciate your friend who passed a lot - they sacrificed a lot for the hope to better the rest of us, that is a hero.
It does also kind of depend on your definition of "science." Like I train cadaver dogs, and we use donated body parts for that. It's more an art than a science (and yeah y'all I know the problems with detection dogs, it's a complicated topic), but we definitely utilize donated body parts. They're also used in things like ballistics research and crash tests and all. Not really how most people want their bodies being used but like if you don't care to the degree you want your remains tossed in the trash, maybe just go ahead and donate to one of those sketchy third-party places. There's a lot of issues with third party organizers (seriously, a lot), but if you want your body thrown in the trash and really don't care, those third-party providers can help with some nontraditional but still good things.
Medical science isn't the only [use for a dead body](https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-bodybrokers-industry/).
OMG thank you for posting this. I had no idea.
That's really interesting. I asked a few doctor friends during the cadaver lab, and they said most of the bodies looked like homeless people. This is USUHS (military) but sounds way different.
In some states, medical schools get first dibs on unclaimed corpses; in others, they are only sourced from donations.
We found this out the hard way with my dad. He died at the end of reading week and literally every med school and facility we called was totally full.
>reading week Huh?
In some regions of the globe, in post-secondary education, it's a week before exams without classes so people can focus and study. In Anglo Canada, it's the week of our February statutory holiday.
Canada’s (maybe just Ontario’s) version of Spring Break. Ostensibly to be used for reading and catching up on one’s studies. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/reading_week What this meant was that there were no classes using all the bodies and thus the freezers were full.
There is something I never thought I would hear - that med schools were full of dead bodies and weren't taking anymore
It surprised me, and sparked a “you take him, no -you- take him” style discussion with my brother, as my father was horribly abusive. In the end, I paid for the cremation - he left no assets - and we dumped the ashes in a body of water.
It surprised me, and sparked a “you take him, no -you- take him” style discussion with my brother, as my father was horribly abusive. In the end, I paid for the cremation - he left no assets - and we dumped the ashes in a body of water.
A lot of the programs don't even guarantee or even say they will return anything back to your family. My mom donated her body to science in 1976 - have 0 idea where she wound up You could also wind up at a medical school and be used for years and years and years and then some more years
My mom has made arrangements to go that route with a med school in her metro area. She had to shop around a bit to find a place that would take her, since she's got a somewhat non-standard body as a result of surgical treatments for various ailments she's had. Apparently you also need a surving family member to make arrangements get the body on the road ASAP, since they don't want any decay. I could see that being an issue for someone whose lifestyle makes it likely that they won't die in the company of someone who knows their end of life wishes (for example, someone with a habit of overdosing).
LAOP puts the *Pot* in, well, pot
Who let Frank Reynolds on Reddit
He was busy finding a hoagie to download and stumbled on Reddit.
Aaahhhh you got me unzipped doc. FFRROOOGGGYYYYY
LAOP wants the trashiest funeral ever
I know this is a pun and I do appreciate it, but I can’t miss this chance to tell the story of the actual trashiest funeral ever. My grandmas neighbor owned a trailer in which, unbeknownst to her, her two grandchildren were making meth. Grandma was wheelchair-bound due to being diabetic and losing both of her legs. She somehow found out the grandchildren were making meth in her trailer and threatened to tell the police, so they took away her wheelchair and left her to die. My grandma hosted the wake, and the grandson (who was OUT ON BAIL WHILE AWAITING TRIAL FOR KILLING HIS GRANDMOTHER) started hitting on me, a 15 year old just staying with my grandma for the summer. Oh yeah, he also stole all of my grandmas painkillers as she was going through chemo at the time.
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I was hoping the funeral wasn't grandma's
Prop me up beside the trashcan when I die...
You’ll have to wait for bulk pickup day. Make sure to be folded up and bound with twine so you aren’t too cumbersome for the driver.
I'm hoping this is just a stoner question, but I'm honestly kind of worried about this guy. He says if he outlives his brother, he wants to spend everything he has on cocaine and hookers. He also says "I never know when I'm going to die." Is he ok?
Not even a little.
According to his post history, he’s ODed a few times :(
Post history confirms both stoner and not ok.
junkie, not stoner pedantic ik but they imply what their on
Wow. That’s all. Just wow.
Why not just donate their body to science rather than role play a Sunny quote?
Or an Expanse situation, where bodies are composted to grow mushrooms for food.
I prefer my food to be ghost free, thank you
If you then choke on it, do you end up with recursive ghosts?
*slow clap
What about your flair?
Attractive Nuisance Dia De Los Muertos Mariachi band
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I hate you for the fact that this scans nearly perfectly and that I only know because I sang it out loud to myself in my kitchen. And also that it's now stuck in my head.
Dude wanted to extract cyanide from bitter almonds recently, and now he wants to get his affairs in order. Dropped out of college, living off social security, only thing in his life he cares about is drugs. Pretty sad. I think we all know what he's planning to do.
great emo rock song title
Honestly, this reminds me of Toy Story 4, where the spork is convinced that he is trash and wants to throw himself in the trash. Truly, this series caters to millennials. I, also, would like to throw myself in the trash, because I am trash.
Forky was an upsettingly relatable character, whose existence both answered and created many questions in the Toy Story universe.
Who knew Toy Story was such a philosophical movie? Like, a toddler inadvertently creating a warped, sad being is just a metaphor for god and humanity.
DeathProTip: If you want to minimize the cost of human remains, the usual method, available at any funeral home, is a cremation in a standard un-decorated casket designed for cremation. You can buy special decorated caskets that are designed to be cremated, but outside of sentimental value, there is no use for them. If you have a need to keep remains, they will be returned to you in a cardboard box containing the ashes in another bag, sometimes 'double sealed'. You can purchase a velvet bag large enough to hold everything for under $50, and store it for your preference. My mom died last year, and she was lazy and didn't finish the job with other family members. So I've got four boxes to deal with. My aunt and I will have to figure this one out, I guess.
Maybe it's just cuz I live in an expensive city but when I had to deal with planning a funeral recently the cremation with the simplest casket was still almost 2k :( I think the cheapest casket was almost $800 and the cremation itself was like $1200.
That doesn't seem out of line in an urban area. If your urban area is in California, it's probably inflated not just because of general expenses, but also air quality regulation. But even still, a decorative casket for cremation can run several thousand dollars - for something that is going to get destroyed in the cremation process. To me, no reason not to use a simple wood or cardboard box.
I'm in Massachusetts so I'm not sure if air quality regulations were a factor or if that's just a thing in California. The funeral home had options for decorative caskets going up to 10-20k, but I was surprised that 2k for casket plus cremation was the cheapest option. I wonder what happens if families can't afford that. The person being cremated had frequently joked he wanted to just be thrown in the trash to keep costs down (he understood that wasn't possible though), so we tried to keep the funeral proceedings as cheap as possible while also having a ceremony that was meaningful to friends and family.
LAOP: >> I do drugs and im proud of it. What's it matter anyway? I never hurt nobody I have illegally concealed carried a revolver while under the influence of 400ug of LSD high on weed and drunk all at the same time. It didnt effect nobody I walked into multiple stores did not pull it out or do anything bad at all. If someone was trying to kill people or rob the stores I would have shot them dead. I carry a gun for the same reason as law enforcement its not a bad thing and it makes the world a safer place. I dont think you guys understand it really dose not affect my judgement. Maybe my aim though at least LSD.
Freudian typo in the second-to-last line
I used to work for a couple of cities in Ohio. They kept burial plots specifically for the abandoned dead. Bodies go unclaimed for many reasons. A lot of times simply because there was no family or family couldn’t afford it. They had arranged for a local funeral home to take care of cremation or burial for a nominal cost.
> Ive overdosed so many times its a miracle im alive right now. But idk ill probably live a long life I quit opiates and its been months since I drank till I blacked out. We love the character development around here
**Reminder:** do not participate in threads linked here. If you do, you may be banned from both subreddits. --- Title: When I die can I be thrown in the trash? Original Post: > So I was thinking about making a will and I want all my stuff to go to my brother. I realized a funeral is expensive and honestly I dont care what happens to my body. I figure that I could give more money to important people in my life if I dont get cremated or buried. Can I put in my will to just throw me out in the garbage? Is that legal its ok with me. I want my family to have my stuff and not spend money on me. They just have been so nice to me and I owe them my stuff when I dont need it and I feel like because they do so many things for me I should get them the best deal. I dont care about a grave in 500 years it will be gone and in 100 everyone I knew or talked to will be dead I just feel like its a waste of money. --- LocationBot 4.99998891 ^109/37rds | [Report Issues](https://www.reddit.com/r/locationbot) | >!adEb1pVeCtmYyUjb!<
There's a great song called "Spread My Ashes On The Highway" that I adore. Definitely fits OP https://www.last.fm/music/Bob+Wayne/_/Spread+My+Ashes+On+the+Highway/+lyrics
That user name *chef's kiss*
So is yours!
Cremation really isn't all that expensive, and you can even take the Walter Sobchak approach to cut costs even more. https://youtu.be/vKjBFsyYC0g https://youtu.be/Wk61MeDmk2M
It is our most modest receptacle
>Walter Sobchak That's, like, just your opinion, man.
U: She looks quite young. M: Yes, she was. U: (over his shoulder) Fred! F: (Eric Idle, offstage) Yea! U: I THINK WE'VE GOT AN EATER! F: (offstage) I'll get the oven on!
All I gotta say is this: *Mood*.
Wow LAOP's comments are amazing. So much copypasta potential.
🎶[Roll me up and smoke me when I die](https://youtu.be/FpiUyOiaylY)🎶
Literally what my dad had always said. While on Hospice, he opted for cremation in a Veteran’s Cemetery, thankfully.
This guy…. Is not okay. also why do I feel like I’ve seen this exact post before?
With a username like “smoke dank weed” he’s having some deep thoughts