Monday, August 27, 2012

Donating My Body

Before you die, there are basically five options you can choose for your body: organ donor, sell your body to science, burn it, bury it, taxidermy your body and make it a mint-caddy at a Cracker Barrel (What, you don't have that option when you apply for a driver's license?).
Or turn me into a facsimile of this work of art. Source
This is not good enough for me. There are so many other uses for a human cadaver than traditional, legal methods offer, and I DEMAND choice! Here are but a few things I would like the option to donate my carcass towards.

Awww you forgot the  sunglasses! Source
Donate My Skeleton to High School Science
You know how high school science classes seem to always have a full skeleton just hanging out in a corner? I want that to be me. But I would prefer to live in perpetuity by being the skeleton but having my full name etched into my forehead. So, when teenagers sneak into school in the night to smoke weed and wreak harmless mayhem, they remember the skeleton they're putting a hat and sunglasses on belongs to me.

Pulverize it to Powder for Keith Richards to Snort
I've heard he loves snorting the dead. And getting mixed with cocaine and giving a thrill to possibly the most famous drug-puppet of all time, the Caligula of barbiturates, the Kermit to heroine's Jim Henson, would be quite an honor.

Donation to Necrophiliac
After donating my organs, this is my first choice of body donation. There are people out there who would be horrified to have themselves be violated, so the necrophiliacs are shamed into hiding their fetish, violating the corpse of the unsuspecting and unwilling. I am offering myself to the cause. What do I care? I'll be dead. Cary on with my carrion. Only, no photos or videos, that's just embarrassing.

Then, after my corpse becomes too worn out or our relationship falls apart (See what I did there?) I'd like the necros (my cute, pet-name for them) to hand me over to our next group...

Dinner for Cannibals
I get it, you've acquired the taste for human flesh, but society frowns upon your culinary preferences. Let me help you by being your people-jerky. I probably won't be as fresh as you prefer, but throw a little salt on me and cook me in a slow-roaster and I guarantee I'll taste better than anything you'll find in an Applebee's or Denny's.

The point is, why are my donation options limited by social mores? I don't have those same hangups...and I could use the cash up front now while I'm still alive, call me, necrophiliacs, I have reasonable prices and my orifices are supple!

To round out this most morbid of posts, how about the weirdest taxidermy I could find:
Created by Andrew Lancaster, craftsman of nightmares. Source
Thanks, Internet.

20 comments:

  1. So AFTER you've been violated, you want the cannibals to have you? Wouldn't that be bad for the cannibals? I mean we all know that we must preserve our food. How long are you planning on allowing the necros to use you? I can't imagine that the cannibals would want an old, decaying and violated corpse. I don't know any cannibals personally, but I'm sure they have standards!

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    1. Yes, no, as long as they want me, and even cannibals like jerky. People jerky.

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  2. If you die before me, I'm going to buy your body and use it as a surf board. Your body will draw the dolphins in where they will rape you, providing me with a safe swimming experience and live entertainment. Now, that's a lot of bang for my buck Pickle!

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    1. Unfortunately you have to buy me ahead of time, like as soon as possible, I'm not sure how much longer I have but I need quick cash now. Well, you could always buy dead me from whoever makes the original purchase. Look for dead me on Ebay!

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  3. There are several things you can do. There's a skull out there in the theater that is a real one because they guy wanted his skull to be used in a performance of Hamlet. So they took his skull when he died. I think if you make specific requests, they are usually adhered to. It depends on what it is. I have a friend who wants to donate their body to the Louvre though.

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  4. Hmmm either taxidermed to look like that guy with an alien ripping out of my gut like in the movie Alien or crushed up for people to snort. I can't deside.

    Oh wait! I got it! Hide my body and become that "weird smell" in someones appartment!!

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  5. WHAT THE F#*&$@@ IS THAT THING?!? GAH!!!

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  6. You know in horror movies when bodies get ripped apart or something, and it always looks so fake? Why not donate your dead corpse to making the most realistic horror movie ever? Just make sure you sign on with a good director. Someone real professional. He'll only get one shot to get it right.

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  7. The donation to a necrophiliac one killed me. They need love too! I read a really great book about all the ways we use cadavers in our society. It's called Stiff, by Mary Roach. I think you would like it. She interjects humor in places where you go, "Nope, that shouldn't be funny. But it is."

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  8. But what if the necros are into the unwilling? What if that's their thing? You really should "just happen to die outside a necro complex" with a sign that says "please don't defile me", all the while crossing your fingers! :)

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  9. When I die, I want my body to be used in a shot-for-shot remake of Weekend at Bernie's I and II. Assuming they're still alive, I'm sure both Andrew McCarthy AND Jonathan Silverman will do it for pennies on the dollar. No one else is giving them steady work.

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  10. That's a lot of...unusual things to do. My favourtie has to be the Biology class skeleton :) x

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  11. I would donate it to a med school, but with the stipulation that as many student as possible have to use my body parts to pick up one-night stands in bars.

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  12. I am going to give my body to science but under certain conditions.....
    Apparently, the state of Florida is teaming with humans that like to eat other humans' faces off.

    "I'll make a shoehorn out of your shin, and make a lampshade from your durable skin."

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  13. I would make a great bit of glue.

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  14. I think I'd like to be donated to a horror film producer. I could be famous posthumously ... which I've been told is the best way to be famous!

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  15. Are you sure someone would want to eat your body after it's being "used" so many times before? Plus, the body is so old...

    How good does old meat taste?

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  16. This is ingenious. I want my body turned into a work of art... Like that part in the movie House of 1000 Corpses, when Odis turns that one guy into a merman. Just like that!! And then my kids can mount me on their wall! PERFECT!!

    Hugs!

    Valerie

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  17. I just want to be made into one of those little diamonds they make out of people's ashes. I'll be the most beautiful dead gal in all the land!

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  18. "our relationship falls apart"

    That created the best and funniest images in my head. So tender, it falls off the bone!

    Seriously though, let's not talk about death ever again. It creeps me out.

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