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[packbat]

What do you want done with your body after you die? Submitted By crunch_crunch View other answers

I'll be dead - it doesn't make a difference to me. I would prefer it be treated in a way which those alive find satisfactory.

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[nationelectric.livejournal.com]

I take a slightly different view: the ultimate value of our lives is measured by how we effect the world and those around us. Death is our last opportunity to do so, so I'm interested in how I can use it as an act of caring.

That said, I'm not quite sure what I want done. I'm thinking I'd like to leave behind a few words, written as I approach death (provided I'm lucid and not horribly bitter.) Afterwards, organ donation and cremation, some kind of funeral/elaborate wake structured to hopefully provide some joy and catharsis (and, ideally, inspiration) to the grieving, and a bench in a cemetery with an invitation upon it for strangers to rest, mourn, or meditate.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

That does sound beautiful.

[explodingbat.livejournal.com]

Medical science.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Yes, this could be good. Not too sure how it would combine with organ donation.