Dad's corpse goes to science. Mom doesn't want anyone seeing her naked and dead, so cremation for her. I love my brother's plan: he wants his bones post science-donation to be made into a bench in a childrens' museum or park and have a plaque that reads " You are sitting on Dr. Josh Anderson." PJ's response? "Taxidermy me up all pretty and sit me on Josh's bones." Ahahahah.

I was watching some commercial with miriam about the high cost of funerals. I said, "Ah, just stick me in a dumpster...."

For some reason she found this really funny.

Yeah, I made that mistake the other day Cash. Hec, thanks for working out - well, not an upside, but an ancillary benefit? It helps.

Other than telling the fam that he wants a military funeral and that we should stuff my mom ("like they did with Trigger!") and put her in the living room, my family doesn't really talk about what we should do if one of us dies.

Yeah, I guess we've never been all that sensitive about it. I do remember teasing my mom (long before she got sick) about how we planned to cremate her, because just the idea horrified her. I'm glad that I know that my dad could give a shit about that, because it was complicated enough figuring out how to transport her body back to Canada for burial, and she was a citizen. With him it won't necessarily have to be an issue.

But I remember having basically this same conversation a few years ago out in the yard around a bonfire one night, and my brother freaking right the fuck out. My sister and I were jokingly planning out all of our funerals and he had to get up and leave. So I get that it's not a comfortable conversation for everyone.

I had to go look up Empress Lu. That was some sick shit.

I told you not to look!

I don't like the idea of cremation, nor embalming. I just want to be in the ground and rotting. I want my nitrogen to go back into the soil.

I just want to be in the ground and rotting. I want my nitrogen to go back into the soil.

Yeah, I can see the appeal to that.

I wonder if there's a colony of feral cats I could be fed to....

I don't like the idea of being all alone in the ground. Not that I'd know it, but still. And as much as I like cemeteries, I think they're sort of troublesome -- once we move away from here, for instance, the chances of us visiting my MiL's grave are slim to none. Which seems wrong.

I like the idea of being cremated and my ashes spread somewhere I like, but I think it makes more sense to donate your body to science. You know, if they want it.

I told you not to look!

I couldn't help myself! It was like ita's links!

My father in law once expressed his desire to "remain whole" after he dies. My mother in law informed him that he had better die first because her brother's life was saved by a liver transplant.

DH and I are pretty much, "gut us like a fish and donate whatever you can. Cremate the rest and throw a party with the money you save by not having a big funeral."

I think my mom once said to me, "If you can't say anything nice about a man who may have just had a heart attack, don't say anything at all."

Rush Limbaugh Hospitalized: Taken To Hospital In Hawaii After Reported Chest Pains

Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a hospital in Hawaii on Wednesday after reportedly suffering from chest pains, according to KITV in Honolulu.

Paramedics reportedly responded to the call involving the talk show host at 2:41 p.m. at the Kahala Hotel and Resort, treated him, and transferred him to Queen's Medical Center.

Limbaugh apparently arrived at the hospital in "serious condition."

I think it makes more sense to donate your body to science. You know, if they want it.

HA! I don't think anyone wants my organs. I dunno how I feel about donating it to science though. But I can't articulate why. It might have something to do with Advanced Bio and the pickled fetal pigs.

My parents both donated their bodies the the University med school. then they were cremated after the school was done with them. they are now in a cardboard box in my brothers office. I'm lobbying to have them sent into space. I think they'd like that.