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[wierd]

I am sure there is a way around the system by using religion.

Make arrangements for your body to be shipped to a cannibalistic culture's nation, for "Ritual consumption", as part of their religious funerary practices.

I am sure it will make some people's heads spin, but I think that would get around the problem.

[CABL]

Y'know what, I'll be happy with scientists using my body for science. Screw cremation, science is the way!

[blazing glory]

People talk of how there are hungry people out in the world so feeding the hungry as your last dying (post mortem in fact) act would be a great way to get in some good karma though! The earth doesn't need your dusty old bones and charred ashes, nor will science be meaningfully advanced by using your corpse to test hair products, yes, being eaten by cannibals is the best option.

[Yoink]

I want my corpse to rot happily in the ground with a bunch of friendly worms, if ever I happen to die.

[Hanslanda]

Everyone dies Yoink. Even Australians.

[Egan_BW]

I dunno, I have never seen an Australian die. Pretty sure they're immune to that sort of thing due to their continent being coated in deadly poison.

[Trekkin]

nor will science be meaningfully advanced by using your corpse to test hair products,

What luck, then, that that's not what bodies donated to science are used for in any significant way.

[wierd]

IIRC, most are used for training doctors.

Some have very special pathologies that are used to better understand rare diseases, but most are just used for training doctors.

[Trekkin]

IIRC, most are used for training doctors.

Some have very special pathologies that are used to better understand rare diseases, but most are just used for training doctors.

It's increasingly both, particularly as body brokerage is becoming more regulated; there are several tissue types which cannot be biopsied in living people, especially brain tissue, that are helpful in things like GWAS studies of cellular morphology and metagenomic studies of the internal microbiome, and once the non-transfer tissue banks have everything they need there's still more than enough cadaver left to be pedagogically useful.

EDIT: Or used as part of a forensic body farm, or for understanding how different probably-fatal things affect flesh, or for medical research like testing out new joint replacements and things. Without meaning to sound ghoulish, there's no end of good uses to which a dead body may be put.

[TD1]

Or target practice for the military.

[Trekkin]

Or target practice for the military.

You mean blast testing, which is quite different, for reasons I'd have thought were obvious.

[TD1]

Or that one time during the war when a dead homeless man was cleaned up and dumped in the ocean for Germans to find.

[Trekkin]

Or that one time during the war when a dead homeless man was cleaned up and dumped in the ocean for Germans to find.

Glyndwr Michael's body wasn't donated, though, and was used precisely to get around having to tell next of kin what it was being used for. Totally irrelevant.

Then again, given the estimated reduction in Allied casualties from Operation Mincemeat, even that saved lives.

[Kagus]

I'm looking for more examples of dumb food-emotion rhymes (a la "don't be upsetti, have some spaghetti"). So far I've got:

• Don't be silly, have some chilli!
• Dont feel awful, have a waffle!
• You'll feel better after some cheddar!
• Don't be a bad guy, eat some pad thai!

Is there a forbidden temple or internet repository of these things somewhere?

[scriver]

Wipe away the tear with a pear