Posted by Rod Speed on December 6, 2010, 1:51 pm
Bill wrote:
> I know funeral homes can really stick it to you with various expenses...
> So I am thinking about donating my body to science. I would prefer to have no
funeral home expenses - no funeral...
> But looking at a local medical school body donation program, they say they
will give the funeral home specific
> embalming instructions and your estate is responsible for paying all funeral
home expenses! I can imagine that could
> be big $$ and more than a simple cremation?
Not all do it that way. Some cover all the costs.
> Anyone know anything about "body donation"?
You could try that operation that leaves corpses out in the open watching them
decay.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_farm
Corse you may have to pay someone to cart your corpse there after you have died.
Posted by Mrs Irish Mike on December 8, 2010, 6:11 pm
> I know funeral homes can really stick it to you with various
> expenses...
> So I am thinking about donating my body to science. I would prefer to
> have no funeral home expenses - no funeral...
> But looking at a local medical school body donation program, they say
> they will give the funeral home specific embalming instructions and
> your estate is responsible for paying all funeral home expenses! I can
> imagine that could be big $$ and more than a simple cremation?
> Anyone know anything about "body donation"?
Are you really that cheap? The cost of cremating your meaty bag of
bones is about $1000. About $700 if you pre-plan it. A little more
than a cab ride to the airport, but much cheaper than a decent used
car.
You could prepay your cremation on a credit card and then refuse to
pay the card.
You could go the El Cheapo way and have your family call the morgue
to take you away and then refuse to take responsibility. At least that
way you get buried.
You could get sentenced to prison. They'll look after your body.
Besides, what are you saving your pennies for? They don't take cash
where you're going.
Sometimes I worry that if I always look for the cheap way, at the end
I'll look back and think how cheap life was and it wasn't all rich and
rewarding.
For cripes sake, get a paper route for a few months and save enough
to have your used up, nobody wants your cheap assed, misused body.
Posted by Rod Speed on December 8, 2010, 8:09 pm
Mrs Irish Mike wrote:
>> I know funeral homes can really stick it to you with various expenses...
>> So I am thinking about donating my body to science. I would
>> prefer to have no funeral home expenses - no funeral...
>> But looking at a local medical school body donation program, they say
>> they will give the funeral home specific embalming instructions and
>> your estate is responsible for paying all funeral home expenses! I
>> can imagine that could be big $$ and more than a simple cremation?
>> Anyone know anything about "body donation"?
> Are you really that cheap?
Yep, me too.
> The cost of cremating your meaty bag of bones is about $1000.
No thanks.
> About $700 if you pre-plan it. A little more than a cab ride
> to the airport, but much cheaper than a decent used car.
Plenty of better things to spend the money on with prepaid.
> You could prepay your cremation on a credit card and then refuse to pay the
card.
Then you wont get a cremation.
> You could go the El Cheapo way and have your family call the
> morgue to take you away and then refuse to take responsibility.
Technically they can seized some of your property to pay for the disposal of the
corpse.
> At least that way you get buried.
> You could get sentenced to prison. They'll look after your body.
Its got some other downsides, stupid.
> Besides, what are you saving your pennies for?
For other stuff he prefers with the prepaid cremation, stupid.
> They don't take cash where you're going.
> Sometimes I worry that if I always look for the cheap way, at the end I'll
> look back and think how cheap life was and it wasn't all rich and rewarding.
Unlikely to happen with a free disposal of the body.
> For cripes sake, get a paper route for a few months and save enough
Whats the point when there are ways of getting rid of the body for free.
> to have your used up, nobody wants your cheap assed, misused body.
There is always someone who wants any body.
Posted by JohnDoe on December 9, 2010, 10:06 pm
>>
>> So I am thinking about donating my body to science. I would prefer to
>> have no funeral home expenses - no funeral...
>>
>Shrug. Sure, you can do that, but years ago I set up a pre-paid cremation
>deal for $500. No service, no ashes returned to the "family", no nothing.
>They pick up the corpse, and you get a fire nap. Done and done. What else do
>you need? When I croak everything will be taken care of with one phone call.
>DH has the same thing set up.
Do you have a name or at least how one would go about finding such a
place?
Posted by Rod Speed on December 9, 2010, 10:15 pm
JohnDoe@BadISP.org wrote
>>> So I am thinking about donating my body to science.
>>> I would prefer to have no funeral home expenses - no funeral...
>> Shrug. Sure, you can do that, but years ago I set up a pre-paid
>> cremation deal for $500. No service, no ashes returned to the
>> "family", no nothing. They pick up the corpse, and you get a fire
>> nap. Done and done. What else do you need? When I croak everything
>> will be taken care of with one phone call. DH has the same thing set up.
> Do you have a name or at least how one would go about finding such a place?
Just ring around the operations that do dispose of the bodys.
We've got an operation that turns animal carcases into chicken food down the road
but they arent keen on putting human corpses thru their system for some reason.
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