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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I am pretty sure it is becoming legal to get composted some places. Then you wait and disinter the giant bastard, free yard skeleton

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah everyone knows in Europe there's just skeletons everyone's gardens. It's considered pretty common over here and not at all weird or strange.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Are you implying the fellow in this green text might not be the most ..normal person?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I think this is one of those societal level conspiracies

I like by taking life, in death I want to give life. It's legal, it's ethical. Unless I die from a bacterial disease or nasty virus, I find it ghoulish and cruel to be cremated or pumped full of preservatives - let me return to the earth. Feed me to birds, bury me under a tree, i don't care - I just want to feed life as I fed upon it

It's legal, it's ethical, and if I died tomorrow I'm sure my frequently expressed wishes would be ignored

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Going to have to update my will

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You're "homeschooling" !

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

im gonna force (post mortem) whatever morgue that has to deal with my body upon death to rip all my teeth out so i can send them to my friends.

I've got worse ideas. Apparently there's a company or was, idk if it's still around that would preserve tats from the skin of the now longer alive individual. I'm really tempted to get a tattoo of a dashed grid on my back, with numbered squares (2x2inches per square for example) just so i can tell people that when i die it's going to be removed, segmented, preserved, and then sent to people that knew me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

i would describe it is realist more than anything. People subscribe to things that are meaningless more often than not.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

What if I put it in my will that I want my skeleton turned into a kick ass statue in a WH40K style marine suit?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Would be more ethical to buy a full body autopsy CT scan its's only a fewthousands dollars) to get a 3D model, then 3D print a replica of his skeleton out of something not biodegradable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

how is that more ethical if they want that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Not dessicrating the corpse, since CT xray is nondestructive.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What would be the point? Space marine armor is fully enclosed, nobody would see the skeleton anyway.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Akshully, a significant portion of them prefers to fight without a helmet where possible, for various reasons such as chapter culture or certain gene seed variants. The primarchs are also often depicted without helmets, but considering the lore is essentially imperial propaganda it might make sense to depict them that way for PR reasons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wearing insanely heavy armor only to leave the helmet off seems like the kind of thing so obviously stupid it should be kept out of propaganda material at all costs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not defending the practice in a combat scenario because that's obviously dumb especially in the uber warfare thats happening in 40k. Virus bombs that can destroy entire ecosystems in proverbial seconds, rounds and shells with more diameter than a fucking bus, chaos sorcery of the worst kind is a frequent encounter as well.

But for propaganda material it makes a lot of sense I'd say, the masses need to see their heroes' faces. There are also some marine chapters that use mutated or otherwise extreme gene seed when making their warriors, for example one chapter becomes a lot more animalistic in its physical characteristics and the helmet negatively impacts their altered natural senses.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

It's not for them, it's for my skeleton.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Shove my corpse on a random desert hillside and study its decomposition ... hyper-specific because there's actually a study like so, but yeah, anything that isn't claimed by patients/doctors who need it, I want set out for sky "burial".

Now I think about it, I think I read that study wants entire corpses. Now I'm sad.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

.....how would a coroner go about removing a skeleton without destroying the body? I'm pretty sure this is nowhere in a coroner job description. I'd tell him the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

You just need a straw and some patience.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would assume you would need to dissolve everything but the bones, unless you want to start cutting and peeling and pulling and scraping.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They use special beetles. Eats all the meat off nice and clean.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I went to the Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma City and they have an area in the entrance where you can watch the beetles do their thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That would be something worth seeing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

True or not this is now a fact in my mind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

They don't just throw a whole body in with them. But they do use them to finish cleaning the bones.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

So what you're saying is that Anon just asked the wrong person.

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