I like how now it looks like Trudy thinks S is very weird...

::snuggles S::

::glares sternly at her untrustworthy innards::

Edit: S is weird! Very very weird! Just look who she's dating! t runs like hell

Shall we fling ourselves on your casket after it's been lowered into the ground?

"Hold off the earth a while so I may take her once more into my arms!"

We'll all be Laertes.

I was thinking more soap-opera-drama-queen rather than Actual Theatre(TM).

Shall we fling ourselves on your casket after it's been lowered into the ground?

This is exactly what I was about to type. Scary.

Great minds.

Does anyone else have songs picked out? Or am I the only morbid one?

R.E.M.'s "Shiny Happy People." Just to confuse people.

The Velvet Underground's "Sister Ray."

Robyn Hitchcock's "Where Do You Go When You Die?"

I was thinking AC/DC's "Highway to Hell," Violent Femmes' "Kiss Off," and "Leaving on a Jet Plane," performed by any lounge lizard.

(Okay, no. I don't care what music is played at my funeral, b/c it's for the loved ones, not for me. I won't be there. They can pick.)

Being an odd type just means that there other odd types out there desperate for your organs. Sadly, they won't take mine anymore.

Ginger, you'd be surprised at what you can still donate -- bone and tendons, for example.

Yeah, that 's right. I'm pretty sure corneas are okay too, since they don't really have a blood supply. I guess I'll just leave it up to the med school.

eta: I sent you a strange e-mail to explain a strange package, Teppy.

(Okay, no. I don't care what music is played at my funeral, b/c it's for the loved ones, not for me. I won't be there. They can pick.)

I figure I'll pick and if they just can't stand it they can change things and I won't haunt them.

Well, not for that.

My Father wants to be cremated and raked into a particular sandtrap he could never get out of. We've all said "uh, okay".

Several years ago, on Rosh Hashanah, the rabbi at my parents' synagogue gave a talk on the Jewish view of organ donation. Because if you ask the average Jewish layperson, a pretty good number will tell you that Jewish law forbids organ donation. But it's actually a whole lot more nuanced than that, so that there are certain things that are allowed and others that aren't, and the talk was clarifying a bunch of that, giving different rabbis' opinions on it, and handing out organ donor cards (after noting that, in NJ, checking off the boxes on the back of your driver's license isn't legally binding at all -- it's just noting a preference.)

(Essentially, it gets down to that Jews are allowed to donate organs if it will directly save someone's life. So, donating a heart or a kidney or something for a transplant is OK. Donating the same heart or kidney for research is not. Donating something like eyes that'll help someone but not directly save their life is not. It's a balance between the laws about not desecrating the body with the law that it's OK to violate any other law in order to save a life.)

Do the rules apply to accepting non-life-saving organs too?

(I'll bet that is not a simple answer either)

I need to get a Recycle symbol tatooed on myself somewhere.