Death is the greatest gift life can bestow!

So is Life. Life could be considered a bigger blessing because you can do more with it.

In an attempt to do something meaningful in death, I've donated my corpse to a medical university. And they accepted it! I got the letter of acceptance and thanks a few months ago. It's hanging on our fridge.
 

Murrmurr said:
So is Life. Life could be considered a bigger blessing because you can do more with it.

In an attempt to do something meaningful in death, I've donated my corpse to a medical university. And they accepted it! I got the letter of acceptance and thanks a few months ago. It's hanging on our fridge.
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I am against you doing that. However. What does it take to get a Letter of Rejection?
 
Do you not have any kind of filter to what you let your fingers type?! Do you have any idea what a post like this could do? Do you know that there are nearly 800 un-registered visitors reading this forum right now and 40 members? How many of those people are depressed and desperately reaching out for an anchor of ANY kind and come to see someone saying "Death is a blessing?" I really want to say some uncharacteristic (for me) words right now. If Pepper's right about you wanting negative attention, there would be better ways to do it. Don't spread your gloom and doom to readers who may be in a very precarious place right now. šŸ˜”:cry:
 
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Pepper said:
I am against you doing that. However. What does it take to get a Letter of Rejection?
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I don't know. I thought they only accepted reasonably healthy bodies, so I wasn't sure they'd want mine.

They suspended donations during the pandemic, so I assume they can't accept a body if it had certain infections or diseases.

I requested mine be used for spinal research but I don't think it works that way. They decide what it'll be used for, and that's fine. But I listed all its defects and surgeries. The application has a page where you do that.
 
One of the things that is done with bodies is leave them out in extreme heat till they explode. They have these corpse 'farms' where they subject bodies to all kinds of revolting stuff just to see what happens to it.

I wish you'd change your mind. I hate to think of you being used disrespectfully.
 
Pepper said:
One of the things that is done with bodies is leave them out in extreme heat till they explode. They have these corpse 'farms' where they subject bodies to all kinds of revolting stuff just to see what happens to it.

I wish you'd change your mind. I hate to think of you being used disrespectfully.
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Why would it matter? He isn't "there" any more. Its just decomposing matter.
 
Pepper said:
One of the things that is done with bodies is leave them out in extreme heat till they explode. They have these corpse 'farms' where they subject bodies to all kinds of revolting stuff just to see what happens to it.

I wish you'd change your mind. I hate to think of you being used disrespectfully.
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It's going to a medical university, so no exploding, and it'll be kept in a fridge.

But I read on a guy's online blog that his gramma donated her body to "science" and it was then sold to the military, who tested a bomb on it and blew her remains to smithereens. He was really upset about it. (I would be, too)

That happened about 10yrs ago. He's basically the reason it's a felony to sell donated bodies.
 
Pepper said:
One of the things that is done with bodies is leave them out in extreme heat till they explode. They have these corpse 'farms' where they subject bodies to all kinds of revolting stuff just to see what happens to it.

I wish you'd change your mind. I hate to think of you being used disrespectfully.
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One of the ....actually, the main source of my back pain is a teeny tiny defect that doesn't show up on xrays and MRI images. The surgeon who did my last spinal surgery found it. It's a defect that's thought to be extremely rare, like only me and one other person way over in east Asia were known to have this defect (at the time; 2016).

What if studying my corpse helps researchers find out that it isn't rare at all? What if it helps them discover it's the reason for millions of people's back pain?...because it's something they'd start looking for, I mean. And, by extension, my body could be the impetus for finding a cure, or correction.

Wouldn't that be awesome?
 
"Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet." - Carlos Castaneda
 
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