• sga@lemmings.world
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          most of these prices are wrong, if you live in a third world country, you may not even get a tenth of it (for kidney, you may get around $250 (yes, 0 amount is correct) to $5000 (the highest that i have ever heard, and this in particular is a settlement amount paid by some foreigner as a settlement as aftermath to not let it come in news)). And why do I know this, I live where there is illegel organ trafficing, and sometimes poor and destitute are either operated and get these organs stolen from them unknowingly (specifically kidney, because you can technically survive on one) or sometimes they themselves selll them, if they are in really hard situations. And Once in a while, some operation gets shut down and it is in the news

          lungs specifically are expensive, because there almost impossibly hard to get out. Brain, Lungs and heart would be hardest to graft organs, mostly because there is no eay way to store it. Brain without blood pumping starts to decay in literal minutes, befor becoming a mass mush. Heart in cryogenic state can be stored for about 1-2 days. Lungs are hard (I don’t even know any place where they do lung transplant, I am guessing it happens, but I don’t know of it) but basically imagine just as frail as brain (maybe not as frail, but pretty close). basically, if no blood reaches, and there is no inert air pressure maintained, alveoli will start degenerating, and without alveoli, lungs are useless. These are logistical issues - but that is the limiting casee here. Most first world countries will not have enough operations running to get these organs, and if they get them from some third world country, they have a huge race against time.

          Hence, there is almost no black market for brains/lungs or conversely if there is one - from supply and demand, the prices shoot sky

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      It would be just very slightly suspicious if a bot knows when you’re about to die.

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        Nah I don’t mind, especiallly if it can be programmed to yell “VIKING BURIAL” as soon as I die (or am about to die), will help others to also locate me in case I am away

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    I’m not planning on a burial, but those biodegradable cardboard coffins look pretty awesome, and they’re (comparatively) cheap as fuck too.

    My plan is to get cremated - but it would be great to either sneak in some petrol into the casket, or pay the funeral directors to go for a two minute walk while someone packs my casket with fireworks or other low-explosive compounds.

    At best, it’ll put on one last show - and at worst it’ll give the crematorium staff member a hell of a shock.

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      If you want to biodegrade, some places now have funeral service companies that will compost you into mulch. Your remains can safely fertilize your favorite garden, park, or forest.

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        Donate your body to medical research instead of to people trying to murder people more efficiently.

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          I agree and in the weird story that linked above, that is exactly what the family of the grandmother thought they were doing. They wanted to donate their grandmother’s body for research on dementia but instead the company they used took the body and sent it to the military for use in their bomb testing. The family would have never known without the work of the journalists who researched it all.

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            Oh holy shit that’s horrific! Thanks… I didn’t click the link. Sorry.

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      Have the casket burst into multicolored flames mid service, maybe have something make demonic screams or have one of those weird fireworks that expands into twisting tentacles as it burns

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    My fantasy is to just grow old until the point where I know my health can’t be helped any more and I just plan my own exit.

    My thought is to just wander into the wilderness, preferably in the winter, go to a place as far away from anyone as possible in the thickest wildest forest I can get to … tell no one what I did or where I went and then just lie down and go to sleep.

    Chances are though … I’ll probably just end up in a home not knowing my name

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      Heroin OD on some remote overlook in Yellowstone. I know it might be rough on somebody eventually, but that would be the place.

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        Boooooring. I’m gonna do a fuck load of PCP and die in combat from the chef at waffle house.

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    Use me for parts. Donate me to a school, use whatever organs are usable, then bury the rest somewhere it can be good fertilizer. Or burn it. I won’t be here to complain 🤷🏿‍♀️

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    Can I get the viking funeral, but skip the boat to reduce costs? Just chuck me into the sea and fire arrows at me untill I sink.

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    One ticket to the cheapest way to dispose of a human carcass please! But flaming boat would be a good plan B, it’s true.

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    As far as I’m aware, it’s not illegal to conduct a Viking funeral, as long as it won’t interfer with shipping.

    Probably wouldn’t hurt to tell the coast guard prior to the event…

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      In my state, it’s completely legal as long as you inform the fire marshall (?) beforehand. Apparently for many others as well

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      My favourite take is from a few old friends of mine in their 70s and 80s … they say do whatever you want … they won’t be there

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      that is common in south east asia, mostly because of beliefs of 4/5 element that are belived to form us, fire is common to most of them

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    Nah, I want that anime coffin, better yet, put a gundam on the side of the boat and light me up!

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        not necessarily, unless someone specifically is fed on carcasses of other dead. Basically, if any body with prions is present in open environment, and only small bugs/bacteria/fungii are doing their job, they will simply decay everything, since they don’t have many complex protiens in them, they don’t mind eating prions. And once they die, they basically just become raw nutrients (amino acids) and then to even simpler compounds (most amino acids are not that stable outside life, would get oxidised). If we consider bigger animals decomposing, for example hyenas and vultures or crows, as long as they are not then fed upon by something that we eat (lets say cattle, or we don’t directly eat them) then it is ok. If i am not wrong, some cultures basically just through theri bodies in some large pits for these animals only.