Body, organ and tissue donation | Human Tissue Authority (hta.gov.uk)
https://www.hta.gov.uk/guidance-public/body-organ-and-tissue-donation
add the pulp to an AD plant for gas generation and energy.
Mmm, interesting.
I know someone who has one of these …..
He also has a pig farm 🤔
Definitely don’t lend it to Taylor Schabusiness…
You could do the Jeremy Bentham thing of being stuffed, mounted in a glass display case and then just go back to work. He’s still goes to board meetings over 180 year after he died.
I was thinking of this too. He doesn’t really get wheeled out though and his actual head was removed and put on a plinth.
his actual head was removed and put on a plinth.
The body is in a display case and was supposed to go to meetings but it's a bit of a palaver - his skeleton is arriticulated and poseable but he'd been bolted to the chair. At one point in time his head went a bit nasty so its been replaced with a wax replica and now his real head in in a box and for convenience its his head that gets taken to meetings when contractually obliged and they only wheel out the rest of him for special occasions.
Put in the green waste bin.
Green bin you day?
Soylent green
The body is in a display case and was supposed to go to meetings
Yeah, when I was a student I used to take prospective undergraduate students on tours and this was one of the things you definitely didn’t miss 🤣
Not even attempting to answer the OP, but...
There's a tiny island called Dove Island, which lies just off St Vincent, and on the tiny island there's a white cross. The remains of a wealthy local are vertically buried/interred inside the cross.
My mother wants to be composted. anyone know where I can get a loan of an industrial mincer?
I deleted my earlier Fargo Gif because of the post it (accidentally) appeared under, but go watch Fargo (the film) it presents a DIY solution to your question...
I might donate mine to science - saves the cost of the funeral!
Hang on, so that water cremation thing dissolves everything except the bones, which are then cremated?
What a wasted opportunity! Your relatives get the option of a full skeleton? Great 🙂
Hang it in a cupboard or something, to scare visitors. Endless possibilities for amusement.
When I die, I intend it to be spectacular enough that there won’t be much body left to dispose of.
I thought you were going to die by gradually cutting bits of yourself off or breaking them over many years?
Either way there won’t be much body left to dispose of 😉
My only worry about water cremation is the bad chemicals.
I'm sure there was somewhere that was doing hot composting which broke the bodies down over about three months, just not sure it's allowed in the UK
We have just buried my wife's aunt this week, can honestly say it was best funeral i have been to, they own a large farm here in Norfolk, and she was buried (with permission) in her favourite wood on the farm, the hearse brought casket to bottom of their long drive, where it was then placed on back of tractor and trailer to the woods, all the guys that worked on the farm were banned from wearing suits and told to wear their overalls, service was non-religious and was mostly people just telling stories, followed by a BBQ/ buffet that everyone contributed to, a lot of beer, music and more stories.
Seemed a good way to be remembered.
Ask the living how they wish to dispose of your body, because you have no say in this matter once you are dead, kaput. You can request whatever you wish now but once you are dead that's it. They can do as they wish with your corpse. i.e. the most economical and convenient way to say goodbye to you. All the methods of disposing body have already been mentioned above so let the living choose.
However, if you belief in afterlife my advice is to wear your favourite clothing, shirt, trousers whatever just before you take your last breath. Coz when you realise that there is an afterlife your spirit will want to visit the living in their dreams, you will be presenting yourself with whatever you wear just before your last breath. i.e. if you died in hospital wearing the hospital robe, that is how you will look like immediately in their dream. If you died wearing nothing that's how you will present yourself in their dream. Most cases, in my experience of the dead people visiting my dream (they like to visit me if they know me previously to report their death or tell me stuff their children did not want others to know ... but now I know LOL!), would wear the same clothing before their last breath and I usually like to confirm my information with their love ones respectfully. (but for my own relatives and love ones I/we just treat them like normal and take the mickey out of them coz death is no taboo to us/me).
Sky burial, the red kites in the Chilterns will make a meal of me.
I'm imagining that as being like a burial at sea, except the boat is replaced with a Cessna and the kites have approximately 20 seconds to eat you before you hit the M40. 😀
Just make sure you don't get run over & have no choice on the matter 😳
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-66256705
After removing any organs/parts for transplants or research theres probably not much left to get rid of.
Hang on, so that water cremation thing dissolves everything except the bones, which are then cremated?
Most of the bodies from the Napoleonic war rotted in situ and then the bones were shipped to Scotland to be made into fertiliser...
I might donate mine to science – saves the cost of the funeral!
Why science? Science gets plenty of bodies already. Why not donate it to the arts? Your corpse could be just what some budding ventriloquist needs to get their foot on the showbiz ladder.
Most of the bodies from the Napoleonic war rotted in situ and then the bones were shipped to Scotland to be made into fertiliser…
The 'I'll grind their bones to make my bread' line in Jack and Beanstalk harks back to referring to our war-dead of the time as having 'given their bones to make your bread'
I’d been oblivious to the ‘bone mills’ and their appetite for battlefield leftovers.
Also I read in ‘when we cease to understand the world’ that the insatiable appetite for bone was a reason for raiding the tombs of Egypt.
insatiable appetite for bone was a reason for raiding the tombs of Egypt.
we ate a lot of mummies as a health food supplement but we also made paint out of them and you’ve probably seen paintings painted with pigment made from the corpses in your local museum and art galleries. You could buy ‘Mummy Brown’ in art materials shops up until the 1960s
so bugger giving your body to science, donate it to Windsor and Newton
Re the Waterloo dead, didn’t they take their teeth to use as dentures?
I kind of fancy being used as a very realistic crash test dummy, see if my mangled corpse can advance life saving technologies in some way.
best way is to pop the body into an ERF and make some electricity, or mince the body and add the pulp to an AD plant for gas generation and energy.
Aquamation, or water cremation several other names for it...expensive and takes a long time per body but is at the mo.ent the greenest option, i think
Ran a survey receantly, based on thoughts of what do you want
80% had no interest in the most environmental option, what is cheapest was top followed by woodland burial, but not popular with land owners, however this is apparently not particularly green...
not sure on the full ins and outs but the Iccm spoke briefly about it...i wont try to explain as im sure folk on here will no more on the subject
Daftest result was 70% have plans for the funeral but have not told anyone what they are.
Not a massive survey i must add but interesting non the less
