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Harvard morgue theft ring stole body parts, sold brains and turned human flesh into leather (www.nbcnews.com)

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[–] chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (11 children)

i see a couple commenters in semi-relevant professions so i'd like to ask: when i die i don't want to be pickled and buried, nor belched into the atmosphere as a plume of carbon. (i like the idea of my remains being placed on a body farm where they can go back to nature but i don't really know where to start looking into a thing like that.) to whom and how can i donate my remains with assurance things like this won't happen?

[–] GONADS125@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

I can't exactly answer your question, but I strongly encourage you to donate your organs. You can easily save 3 or more lives.

My plan is to do that, and have my remains naturally buried. But natural burial grounds vary by state (if you are in the US). Some states allow natural burial on private property, with some caveats (acreage, ground water).

It's kinda complicated and requires you to look into your state/county laws and nearby natural burial grounds.

I personally hate the idea of pumping our bodies full of preservatives and sealing it in a concrete tomb underground. I also hate cremation, even if it is accompanied by planting trees over the ashes.

I think the best legacy is to transfer our ATP to organisms in a food web. How cool is it to imagine our energy transfered into fertilizing plants and eaten by insects, which are eaten by frogs, which are eaten by snakes, and then hawks, etc.

So much cooler than wasting it in cremation or trying to preserve a useless empty vessel. What cooler legacy is there than allowing your energy to be carried on through an endless chain of diverse lifeforms?

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