If you died, How would people remember you?

[AAP]

Who's shoes was he wearing?

 

[musclemom]

Well, it gives insights that people don't think so deeply about. It can indeed give you a better perspective.
"they're my organs I want to die with them" "I don't want my body to look funny if I have an open casket"

Lotta previous Native Americans coming back these days, I guess

Shoot, most people don't even become worm food. If they get a casket burial they're probably going to be embalmed (especially if there's a viewing) and then the casket is placed in a concrete liner underground.

Otherwise they're cremated.

 

[trex74]

I am an organ donor and when I ask people why they are not I have heard some really ridiculous answers. Why would you want to keep your organs in your carcass when they can save someone else's life? If you are dead you do not exist, possessing something is impossible. Instead you are donating it to hungry worms. We write our own obituaries everday.

God bless you, and anyone who signs their organ donor card. Somebody who signed their card saved my husband's life, and I will always be grateful for that selfless gift.

 

[trex74]

lol @ having to picture yourself dead to do some introspection.


What reasons do people give for not wanting to be an organ donor?

Sadly, I think, it is due to a lack of awareness that people don't sign them, not really due to having a reason against it.
I think if there was more awareness about organ donation- that it is important to talk to your loved ones about what your final wishes are, then more people would make that decision.

 

[lartinos]

Lotta previous Native Americans coming back these days, I guess

Shoot, most people don't even become worm food. If they get a casket burial they're probably going to be embalmed (especially if there's a viewing) and then the casket is placed in a concrete liner underground.

Otherwise they're cremated.

Yes, very true. But you get the point, lol.

 

[cindylou]

I like the idea of being an organ donor.

 

[lartinos]

I like the idea of being an organ donor.

Are you one? If not what were your reasons for not being one?

 

[cindylou]

Are you one? If not what were your reasons for not being one?

Yes I am I like the idea that I continue to live after I die and helping someone else continue to live Even if it's just for a short while.

 

[musclemom]

Yes, very true. But you get the point, lol.

Of course. My biggest beef with the system is that green burial is so difficult. There's very few green cemeteries in the entire nation.

Before you ask, EVERYONE in my family (me, hubs, kids) are donors, have been for years. Hubby's father was a kidney recipient.

 

[ceo]

as an asshole probably.

I'd want to have, "I TOLD YOU I WAS SICK!" on my tombstone.

I'd want a recording on a timer inside the casket that would come on sometime during the event when everyone was gathered around. The recording would be something like knocking, then pounding and screaming something like, "let me out! I'm alive! I'm alive!" I would need some pretty good speakers to get the realistic effect.

Some other funny shit too. I'm sure I'll think of more before I die. Unless I have an untimely death at a relatively young age.