the very last dramatic exit

[Elphinstone's Army]

of perhaps a burial with black clad sobbing family and at least two former lovers giving sidelong glances, cremation, scattering of ashes into the wind across landscape hundreds of miles away, and much inconvenience to bemused family, humanist, hessian and environmentally friendly, at sea with lone piper, a pyre alongside the Ganges, bones picked clean, Viking fashion, burning boat, much shouting and waving of horned mead cups by grizzled bearded red haired warrior types, New Orleans style, through the streets, trumpets and colour, sedate and quiet - a country churchyard, plot marked and paid for years ago, a family corner, moss, ivy and forget- me -nots, whichever, please make sure I am well dead.

Feel free to indulge your fantasy right here, plumed matching black horses towing glass carriage passe, whereas, dragged through the streets of ED on a palanquin by a half naked man riding bareback on a skewbald pony playing up, wouldn't.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Can't help noticing two threads from you on the same topic in one day, Elphinestone. What's up? Seems to be on your mind.

[Elphinstone's Army]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> Can't help noticing two threads from you on the

> same topic in one day, Elphinestone. What's up?

> Seems to be on your mind.

Yes ! it is. Thank you for your comment, thoughtful is good.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Sorry to hear that. I understand you probably don't want to go into details here so sending you a virtual cup of tea and a hug.

[Elphinstone's Army]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> Sorry to hear that. I understand you probably

> don't want to go into details here so sending you

> a virtual cup of tea and a hug.

hello RPC, thank you for your kindness.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Mine is to be buried quietly, without ceremony or music, in one of those Italian eco pod things that contain a tree seed so my remains feed its growth.

[PeckhamRose]

Mine - despite my profession - is to be donated to the London Anatomy Office.

[Robert Poste's Child]

I've often thought of that, PR, but was put off by all the stories about what medical students get up to with them. Do you think that kind of thing has stopped?

[rendelharris]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> I've often thought of that, PR, but was put off by

> all the stories about what medical students get up

> to with them. Do you think that kind of thing has

> stopped?

Most of those were urban myths I think - any student caught doing that, at least nowadays, would immediately be disbarred. Good article about it here: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/10/body-medical-research-donate-death-science-brain which seems to indicate the utmost sensitivity is employed.

Often considered it myself, apart from anything else it would save the family funeral expenses.

[siousxiesue]

Woodland spot under a tree, no box, just wrapped in a sheet that my friends/family had drawn all over

Scatter my ashes in Horniman Gardens

Ashes thrown up into space, in a firework, to return where we all come from-the universe

[Robert Poste's Child]

rendelharris Wrote:

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> Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > I've often thought of that, PR, but was put off

> by

> > all the stories about what medical students get

> up

> > to with them. Do you think that kind of thing

> has

> > stopped?

>

> Most of those were urban myths I think - any

> student caught doing that, at least nowadays,

> would immediately be disbarred. Good article

> about it here:

> https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/10/bo

> dy-medical-research-donate-death-science-brain

> which seems to indicate the utmost sensitivity is

> employed.

>

> Often considered it myself, apart from anything

> else it would save the family funeral expenses.

Thanks, excellent article. Will give it some more thought.

[mancity68]

Always fancied a cardboard coffin that my friends and family have a big party around whilst covering it with glitter and graffiti. Then sent to the fire and ashes sprinkled quietly in the Arizona desert by my other half. Maybe a bit of Tom Waits playing.

[Salsaboy]

Burnt and ashes scattered in a little cove in Cornwall.

[Sue]

All I care about is that they make bloody sure I'm dead before doing anything at all to my body .....

Especially as I'm donating all the useful parts ....

[Gaynor Hill]

I already decided just to get company for cremation the cost of funeral terrible I being burnt then a big party for everyone the thought of someone I do not know talking about me in a cold building is horrible so it be party time and everyone laughing about fun times together with all my favourite songs

[EPB]

During the run-up to a (successful) rather major op a couple of years ago I asked the surgeon how to go about body donation. SHe was delighted and, after giving me the necessary information, said she wouldn't have been able to learn and practise her skills without donated human cadavers.

My husband and I both owe a huge debt to the skill of surgeons, and we have signed up for donation as a way of saying 'thank you' to them.

[????]

Stuffed and stuck in a glass case behind the bar at the EDT

[Elphinstone's Army]

siousxiesue Wrote:

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> Woodland spot under a tree, no box, just wrapped

> in a sheet that my friends/family had drawn all

> over

>

> Scatter my ashes in Horniman Gardens

>

> Ashes thrown up into space, in a firework, to

> return where we all come from-the universe

We are stardust, we are golden (Joni Mitchell, at Woodstock) or as Carl Sagan et al would have us believe, We are all

Connected, which is probably the same, atoms and particles.

The Horniman Gardens is going to be full of ash, it's good for the roses

[malumbu]

We donated the cat to vetenerary science (not spell checking this) and would do the same for my remains (medical science). Aunt died at 92 in the spring and we did a humanist ceremony ourselves. It was the most excellent of send offs.

[siousxiesue]

Elphinstone's Army Wrote:

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> siousxiesue Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Woodland spot under a tree, no box, just

> wrapped

> > in a sheet that my friends/family had drawn all

> > over

> >

> > Scatter my ashes in Horniman Gardens

> >

> > Ashes thrown up into space, in a firework, to

> > return where we all come from-the universe

>

>

> We are stardust, we are golden (Joni Mitchell, at

> Woodstock) or as Carl Sagan et al would have us

> believe, We are all

> Connected, which is probably the same, atoms and

> particles.

>

When a person dies, the number of atoms in the universe remains the same...