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would you want to know before you die? Say a week or two in advance or would you not want to know?

I'm in teh grave...fuxin' yur poll.

Seriously, presuming we're talking about the God question, I don't know. When you're already dying it kinda seems moot, you're already about to find out.

I would like to have a little time to say goodbye to my family and friends and make all of those apologies I've been putting off. It would also allow them to get used to the idea of my death.

After death, I have instructed that the body be disposed of as rapidly and cheaply as possible and there is to be no funeral. If someone wanted to buy me flowers they can do it while I'm alive. I think funerals are the greatest torture that society has ever invented. Why would anyone want to put people they cared for through such a thing?

No.

No, because that means I must have really fucked up.

Yes so that I can prepare to go out with a bang! :)

I want my death to make the evening news!

yes, so I can spend the last moments of my life obsessing over whether or not I am leaving a mess for the family.....making sure (double sure) they know how to get my money and where my life insurance papers are, and to pay off what I can so they don't have to worry about paying for funeral arrangements, and cleaning the house and taking out the trash, and feeding the cat, and baking a month's worth of dinners so they don't have to cook while grieving me. Also, I would like to know so I can like....control everything. I am a bit of a control freak.

After death, I have instructed that the body be disposed of as rapidly and cheaply as possible and there is to be no funeral. If someone wanted to buy me flowers they can do it while I'm alive. I think funerals are the greatest torture that society has ever invented. Why would anyone want to put people they cared for through such a thing?

Memorial services on the other hand...

Done right it's all about remembering a person, what they were like. No need to mourn, just remember.

It would be nice, just giving you the time to do a few important things you always wanted to but never had the time/courage. You would want to see people at their happiness, but hearing the news of your imminent departure would probably sour the whole thing unless they can overcome that feeling and celebrate your life and you rather than grieve prematurely. Not many are given this luxury, or could cope with it if they were.

Definately. I'd want to know so that I could make sure that I go to confession and recieve Our Lord beforehand.

Memorial services on the other hand...

Done right it's all about remembering a person, what they were like. No need to mourn, just remember.

I have been to some good wakes. Memorial services I guess make me cry, they all have that slide show and stuff.....

I hate funerals, I wouldn't ever go to one other than it's socially expected.

Having thought about this a lot the last several months, I choose to live every day as if it were my last. Live right, and have no regrets.

Having said that, I too would want the opportunity to receive reconciliation, anointing of the sick, and the body and blood of Our Lord before I go.

I hate funerals, I wouldn't ever go to one other than it's socially expected.

I've never been to one which makes me even more worried about it eventually happening. I don't like the suspense.

Only ever been to one memorial but that was for the cadavers i'd been working on. No emotional attachment there

I'm not going to die, I'm just going to change states.

I've never been to one which makes me even more worried about it eventually happening. I don't like the suspense.

Only ever been to one memorial but that was for the cadavers i'd been working on. No emotional attachment there

I dropped out of college before I got to dissect humans....what does the inside of the belly button look like? I always wanted to know....

I dropped out of college before I got to dissect humans....what does the inside of the belly button look like? I always wanted to know....
It is connected to your urinary bladder, dearie.

I thought I was dying once, it was a pretty bad feeling.

I dropped out of college before I got to dissect humans....what does the inside of the belly button look like? I always wanted to know....

Not that exciting at all to be honest.

Cutting the body in half was much more of an eventful day (along with cutting off the head). I really enjoyed dissecting the hands and arms. The tendons, nerves, etc are incredible to look at

It is connected to your urinary bladder, dearie.
really? cool!

Not that exciting at all to be honest.

Cutting the body in half was much more of an eventful day (along with cutting off the head). I really enjoyed dissecting the hands and arms. The tendons, nerves, etc are incredible to look at

yeah, I did get to dissect a foot, it was awesomely cool. I had to drop out before we got to the full human though :( I really wanted to check out the digestive system. :( My current degree program doesn't require me to take anatomy or anything of the sort......so no luck on getting to do it either.

yeah, I did get to dissect a foot, it was awesomely cool. I had to drop out before we got to the full human though :( I really wanted to check out the digestive system. :( My current degree program doesn't require me to take anatomy or anything of the sort......so no luck on getting to do it either.
Oh. Preserved feces, anyone?

Cutting the body in half was much more of an eventful day (along with cutting off the head). I really enjoyed dissecting the hands and arms. The tendons, nerves, etc are incredible to look at
Grr. I hated that palmaris longus. Cutting a flaccid preserved penis in half was more exciting. ;)

Oh. Preserved feces, anyone?


Grr. I hated that palmaris longus. Cutting a flaccid preserved penis in half was more exciting. ;)

I had the vagina to dissect rather than the penis (thankfully). Preserved faces are quite possibly the most hideous looking things ever. Especially prosections of faces cut in half

EDIT : Ah misread on the face part. Finding preserved faeces in your wallet afterwards is also quite hideous

Oh. Preserved feces, anyone?

:D

I thought I was dying once, it was a pretty bad feeling.

My heart has stopped before, it's not that interesting, like holding you breath for too long, except it hits you much faster, 10-15 seconds.

I figure I'll live long enough to look forward to death.

I had the vagina to dissect rather than the penis (thankfully). Preserved faces are quite possibly the most hideous looking things ever. Especially prosections of faces cut in half

EDIT : Ah misread on the face part
Head dissection was the most brutal-licious things I've ever done. Brain extractions, ossicle extraction, eye extraction, faces sawn in half. Oh, and we didn't have bone saws. We used hacksaws, hammers, chisels, and a large scissor -like contraption to crush ribs. I wondered what would the person think if he saw us working on his body. I hope this wasn't the thing he was thinking and asking before he died:

"Will students open my skull with a hacksaw?"

Head dissection was the most brutal-licious things I've ever done. Brain extractions, ossicle extraction, eye extraction, faces sawn in half. Oh, and we didn't have bone saws. We used hacksaws, hammers, chisels, and a large scissor -like contraption to crush ribs. I wondered what would the person think if he saw us working on his body. I hope this wasn't the thing he was thinking and asking before he died:

"Will students open my skull with a hacksaw?"

Yeah used the scissor thing-a-majig for the vertebrae to get into the vertebral canal. Got a shot with the hacksaw when I was cutting her in half though. Unfortunately the dentists got to steal the heads so I only learnt about them through prosection

I'd love to tattoo instructions and scissor lines onto my body before I die so that I give some lucky students an easy time.

Head dissection was the most brutal-licious things I've ever done. Brain extractions, ossicle extraction, eye extraction, faces sawn in half. Oh, and we didn't have bone saws. We used hacksaws, hammers, chisels, and a large scissor -like contraption to crush ribs. I wondered what would the person think if he saw us working on his body. I hope this wasn't the thing he was thinking and asking before he died:

"Will students open my skull with a hacksaw?"

:eek: where did you get to go to school? *enrolls*

My heart has stopped before, it's not that interesting, like holding you breath for too long, except it hits you much faster, 10-15 seconds.

I figure I'll live long enough to look forward to death.

I was bad tripping. It felt like eternity. Have to imagine that the brain reacts differently to our two situations ;)

:eek: where did you get to go to school? *enrolls*
The best medical school in my country. Also encourages innovation and ingenuity. I am not sarcastic.

You'll enroll? Great! New classmate!

:eek: where did you get to go to school? *enrolls*

A lot of medical schools here are phasing out dissection in favour of prosection due to fewer people donating their bodies. It's a bit shit to be honest but i'm lucky to be in a med school that is keeping it going

I'd love to tattoo instructions and scissor lines onto my body before I die so that I give some lucky students an easy time.
What if you had those scissor lines on your face before you die, but a miracle happened and you lived??

A lot of medical schools here are phasing out dissection in favour of prosection due to fewer people donating their bodies. It's a bit shit to be honest but i'm lucky to be in a med school that is keeping it going
Our cadavers are usually unclaimed bodies from prisons and mental institutions. But one anatomy professor did donate his body to dissection... and maybe he knew what would students do to this body... with a chisel.

I'll need time to make sure they know all the arrangements. Ordering a cannon to launch a body out to sea isn't something you can do in one day, you know.

Fuck yes. It would be rather good fun I think.

Scared but prepared vs unaware but no chance to say goodbye.

I'm not sure, really.

Sure, I'd like to know, simply for the fact I can get all the important stuff out of the way, ya know, finally stop being a crutch for a weepy female, telling all of the cockheads I know to take a long walk out of an airlock, and getting my affaris in order, just so the clean-up will be easier.

ah shyte wrong option...I'm not going to die.

I already know...

I'm gonna die in a freak baking accident in 12 years, 4 months, 11 days, 16 Hours, 31 minutes and 42 seconds........................give or take a few minutes.....

I wouldn't want to know, and I wouldn't need the extra time for funeral arrangements (I'd have those planned well in advance).

I want a big, elegant, stately funeral leading up to my burial in a private mausoleum in Ireland. I think it would be ironic, as a very eco-conscious person, to take up as much space and use as many resources up as possible. Why not, yeah?