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I'm with you, completely. My will specifies that my organs(if worthwhile) be used for donation, and the rest is to become fish food(scattered ashes on two bodies of water). Never pondered the artistic uses, although some black pigments derive from burnt bone.vision wrote: Personally, I hope every inch of my body goes to use after I'm dead even if it is just used for artistic purposes (maybe a cool bone sculpture!).
So like vision, you don't mind your body being carved up and turned into roast long pig to feed the needy? And by inference you don't have a problem with eating the flesh of other human beings? Nice to know your darker side.callmeslick wrote:I'm with you, completely. My will specifies that my organs(if worthwhile) be used for donation, and the rest is to become fish food(scattered ashes on two bodies of water). Never pondered the artistic uses, although some black pigments derive from burnt bone.vision wrote: Personally, I hope every inch of my body goes to use after I'm dead even if it is just used for artistic purposes (maybe a cool bone sculpture!).
nope, although I hope I age enough to become completely unpalatable. Funny that you mentioned cannibalism earlier. I thought that referred to KILLING for the purpose of eating folks who were still alive. I'm not OK with that.woodchip wrote:So like vision, you don't mind your body being carved up and turned into roast long pig to feed the needy?
wow, can you make leaps of guesswork, Woody. First off, I'm not needy. Second, even those that are wouldn't be consuming anything other than processed protein, made from flesh of other human beings. As it is, you already, daily, consume everything from anilmal flesh, to insects to rat feces, so what is the difference if the sourcing were one's deceased fellow men? Look, nothing that I(or I presume Vision) are putting forth are anything beyond scattering of ashes, organ donation for research or artistic use(a new addition by Vision). It is YOU and solely YOU who keeps bringing up 'feeding bodies to the needy'. To my knowledge, neither of us ever suggested that.....we've merely said it could be an outlier type of possibility, if the food supply for living humans got bad enough. It seems that Vision and I aren't the ones showing either our 'dark side' or, frankly, as you are, our 'backsides'.And by inference you don't have a problem with eating the flesh of other human beings? Nice to know your darker side.
), I think it's important for us that we see fit to deal with our dead in a respectful manner. Dealing with Grandpa the same way you deal with lunch just doesn't convey respect or honor for the deceased. I think the idea that it may be necessary to look to the flesh of dead people as a necessary source of nutrition also fails to demand that we at minimum have access to natural sources of nutrition. And why? Are they reserved for Slick's table at this theoretical time in the future? I agree. At no time did I put the suggestion forward that we do so. Vision and I merely referred to post-mortem uses for our own bodies, not one of which involved feeding them to anyone.Sergeant Thorne wrote:It may surprise you to know, Slick, that most people consider eating human flesh to be absolutely taboo. Speaking of using deceased human flesh for food qualifies as "darker side", for sure.
no, you weren't. Those of us(Vision and I) who spoke of utilizing OUR OWN bodies, made no such claim on the choices/wishes of others. Plus, I am not up to eating human flesh.....but, then again, I'm not facing starvation.flip wrote:No, I suggested that anyone that becomes desensitized enough to start using human remains as cordwood and fertilizer would probably not find the idea of human remains as hamburger patties as repulsive and I was right.
Wrong. While I wouldn't care if another human ate my flesh after I was dead, I am almost certain not to eat other people because I'm a vegetarian! I think eating any meat is gross. It's all in your head anyway. If someone put veal on a plate in front of you and said "this is human flesh" you would throw up. But if someone put cooked human flesh in front of you and said it was veal you would probably think "oh this is very tasty!" Yes, there are diseases you can get from eating human flesh, but you can get diseases from lots of other animal parts you shouldn't eat. Human flesh eating would have to be regulated by the FDA anyway. Luckily, no one on this board has ever been hungry enough to eat another human as a last resort, but why would that be bad if it meant your survival? It wouldn't be. And I never once suggested that by dead body would be best used as food for other humans. Organ donation, scientific study, food for lower organisms, art, green energy (if possible)... all these are much better uses. But, if I was stranded on a boat with a bunch of starving people I would hope they had the courage to eat my dead body to survive.flip wrote:No, I suggested that anyone that becomes desensitized enough to start using human remains as cordwood and fertilizer would probably not find the idea of human remains as hamburger patties as repulsive and I was right.
. Your turning into brutes and trying to pass it off as 'enlightenment.' Good luck with that, I have found out that a life is not worth living unless you find something worth dying for.What a bunch of overly-dramatic nonsense. How about living because life is fun and enjoyable and you get to meet cool people and do neat stuff? Jeez, such a gloomy outlook you have that you need a life-or-death principal to keep you going in this world. I feel bad for you. Maybe you should get some counseling, and while you are at it maybe you and the therapist can work out why you have such a fixation on death and cannibalism?flip wrote:I have found out that a life is not worth living unless you find something worth dying for.
Silly me, and here I thought the topic of this thread was a girl getting kicked out of school.flip wrote:You can backpeddle all you want, the topic of this thread is using human remains as an energy source.
