Cremation or burial ? What is your choice ?

Rich said:
What does the medical university do with whatever remains exist when they are done with your body?
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Cremate them.

Once the body or its parts are thawed, they're only good for 2 or 3 days and they're not often returned to freezer storage.

The application explains that your *donation* might be parsed out to various departments within the university. Your feet might go to podiatry students, your torso to pulmonary students, etc., but eventually, every part will be cremated, and those remains will go to a landfill.

Universities are prohibited by law from selling any part of your donation, including the cremated remains. I'd heard they sell your ashes to a company that makes fertilizer. Not so, apparently. They'd risk an investigation and losing funding, reputation, faculty members, and all that, so, no.
 

I saw more preferences for cremation in the thread than I expected to see, and more concern over running out of land for burials. That's fine. I understand most of the reasons given.

We've already paid for the lots. If I don't use mine, it will serve no purpose to the world. I will be buried next to my wife, as she wanted.
 

Murrmurr said:
Cremate them.

Once the body or its parts are thawed, they're only good for 2 or 3 days and they're not often returned to freezer storage.

The application explains that your *donation* might be parsed out to various departments within the university. Your feet might go to podiatry students, your torso to pulmonary students, etc., but eventually, every part will be cremated, and those remains will go to a landfill.

Universities are prohibited by law from selling any part of your donation, including the cremated remains. I'd heard they sell your ashes to a company that makes fertilizer. Not so, apparently. They'd risk an investigation and losing funding, reputation, faculty members, and all that, so, no.
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I recently read that a university in Texas got in serious trouble for selling body parts.
 

Cremation or burial ? What is your choice ?​


Well, I'm claustrophobic so shoving me down a hole and chucking tons of soil ontop of me, hmmm, no thanks, and, I'm allergic to fire too, so I'll just have to hang about for another 413 years, then at 500 years old I'll form my own harem (dreaming of course) and go out with a smile on my mush. šŸ˜Š
 
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Oldeagle66 said:
I recently read that a university in Texas got in serious trouble for selling body parts.
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Some guy who dumped a bunch of body parts in a field did, too. I forget where this happened. The guy was a parts broker, and it was legal for him to sell the parts...to research laboratories and medical schools, I assume.

I don't remember why he dumped the parts of 11 different people in a field, but he was arrested and convicted, and did a prison sentence.

Just as sad, the first few body parts were stumbled upon by a young boy who was out hunting rabbits (or birds or whatever) with his dad.
 
I have often thought about this. That is all I have done.
No plans, no Will.
Cremation has been my first thought. Scattered on the wind.
After donating my body to science.
Standard cemeteries take up a lot of ground and graves are eventually neglected as families die out or move away.
 
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Trade said:
Creamated. And I have requested that my kids throw my ashes into the body of water where I was born and raised next to and spent many hours enjoying fishing and surfing in, The Gulf of MEXICO.
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You do realize the Gulf has been renamed? I hear it is the "Gulf of Buc ee's" now.
They are building a Buc-ees on the Mississippi Gulf coast as we speak.
 
Fort Ott said:
I have with me still, my mother's, my maternal grandmother's, and one of my maternal great-grandmother's ashes. Each one was cremated at a different crematory, in 3 different cities (2009, 2017, 2024). I will be burying them soon.

My mother's and my great grandmother's ashes are a white / beige color. You can still see the cremated bones.

My grandmother's ashes though are completely powdery looking, no sign of any bones, and her ashes are a dark grey color. Can someone please tell me why? Was my grandmother burned more thoroughly or something? Please help if you can. I just want to make sure I got my grandmother, and I'm not being lied to by the funeral home/crematory. Thank you.
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Murrmurr said:
Cremains within the gray-to-beige color range means everything is as it should be. Color differences depend on what type of casket or box the remains were put into for cremation; wood, wicker, heavy cardboard, etc.

Some funeral homes filter out the bone bits before giving the ashes to you.
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Fort Ott said:
Is there a way to post photos on here from my laptop, not from the internet?

So is the dark grey powder, my grandmother or not?
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Murrmurr said:
It is your grandmother. The dark grey color is from whatever type of container her body was placed in before cremation. My guess is, they used a heavy cardboard container, possibly a black one, but not necessarily.
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The first picture is my great-grandmother. Her ashes are white/beige. The second picture is my mother. Her ashes are white/beige. Both of them were put in long brown cardboard boxes for cremation. The third picture is my grandmother. Her ashes are grey. I chose the cheapest wood casket for her. The wood was not painted over. It was raw wood.

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Murrmurr said:
Cremate them.

Once the body or its parts are thawed, they're only good for 2 or 3 days and they're not often returned to freezer storage.

The application explains that your *donation* might be parsed out to various departments within the university. Your feet might go to podiatry students, your torso to pulmonary students, etc., but eventually, every part will be cremated, and those remains will go to a landfill.

Universities are prohibited by law from selling any part of your donation, including the cremated remains. I'd heard they sell your ashes to a company that makes fertilizer. Not so, apparently. They'd risk an investigation and losing funding, reputation, faculty members, and all that, so, no.
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My SIL donated my MIL body. When all was done her remains were cremated and returned to the family.
There was a group memorial service at the local university for all the donors.
My SIL had a separate memorial service for family and friends at their church immediately after my MIL died.
 
Proof of cremation is required to access our trust. Izzi has a nice "please find me a home fund". MIL surprised us with the happy news that she purchased five cementary plots next to each other so we can all be together. This will not happen. Our two plots will be given to family members who want them.
 
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Veronica said:
My SIL donated my MIL body. When all was done her remains were cremated and returned to the family.
There was a group memorial service at the local university for all the donors.
My SIL had a separate memorial service for family and friends at their church immediately after my MIL died.
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I was told my kids will be given a small plaque or commemorative document, suitable for framing, and invitations to the annual Service of Gratitude ceremony.

They used to engrave whole-body donor's names on a wall at the university, but stopped doing that when that part of the building was totally remodeled. Makes sense. I mean, they'd have to stop at some point anyway.
 
I know what my family will do with my body parts but what will they do with all the X-rays that have been taken of my husband's and my X-rays.?
Is there a special place where they can send them to, I don't want them thrown into the recycling place for all and sundry to gape at. Some ideas would be most helpful.
 
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