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sharp_stick

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24. You mean the body farm at UT Knoxville?

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 12:35 PM

Sep 2012

http://fac.utk.edu/

They do some really weird and fascinating work.

For my part, after reading Stiff, I've decided to forego the Plastic Surgeon Practice Face or the real Crash Test Dummy

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What do you want done with your body after you die? [View all] Bertha Venation Sep 2012 OP

Do you know something I don't? HappyMe Sep 2012 #1

I said science but OriginalGeek Sep 2012 #2

I figure even if some med student dissects me like a frog, I've contributed something. Arugula Latte Sep 2012 #7

I wonder if I could have a sign surgically implanted OriginalGeek Sep 2012 #33

I would prefer... av8rdave Sep 2012 #3

Freeze dried and... pipi_k Sep 2012 #4

Jerky? Remmah2 Sep 2012 #23

Now there's an idea... pipi_k Sep 2012 #42

yep heaven05 Sep 2012 #5

Flip a coin. Iggo Sep 2012 #6

I'm warped. Remmah2 Sep 2012 #9

See? OriginalGeek Sep 2012 #34

If you donate your body to a medical school you ultimatly get a free cremation. Remmah2 Sep 2012 #8

If you've really pipi_k Sep 2012 #14

Don't care. I'll be dead. Shadowflash Sep 2012 #10

... Arugula Latte Sep 2012 #11

science! fizzgig Sep 2012 #32

Reanimated and sent on a quest looking for fresh brain matter. Liberal Veteran Sep 2012 #12

So you want to come back as a Republican? JustABozoOnThisBus Sep 2012 #15

Tossed into the north woods of MN geardaddy Sep 2012 #13

Speaking of snacking... pipi_k Sep 2012 #16

That sounds like an awesome show. geardaddy Sep 2012 #18

Oh, it is! pipi_k Sep 2012 #44

There will never be nothing left. Chan790 Sep 2012 #29

I don't think she's seeing it that way, though pipi_k Sep 2012 #43

I literally just gagged reading this out loud to my husband. a la izquierda Sep 2012 #46

Cremation. Denninmi Sep 2012 #17

Being stuffed and mounted would be interesting The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2012 #19

Donate it to a CSI school ismnotwasm Sep 2012 #20

You mean the body farm at UT Knoxville? sharp_stick Sep 2012 #24

Burned up and some ashes in Compost Pile in Lexington. era veteran Sep 2012 #21

I want a green burial. Chan790 Sep 2012 #22

And I'm gonna push up daisies! See next post!!! elleng Sep 2012 #26

Pushing up daisies elleng Sep 2012 #25

I will not be needing it anymore liberal N proud Sep 2012 #27

Natural Burial Taverner Sep 2012 #28

I've taught human anatomy and I'm not going to be leaving my body for health-science students HereSince1628 Sep 2012 #30

If I understand what you are saying... Hassin Bin Sober Sep 2012 #61

Traditional Burial Nikia Sep 2012 #31

Anything they want, as long as they get my consent first. DFW Sep 2012 #35

Taxidermy...and I want one of those little buttons you can hit that GumboYaYa Sep 2012 #36

well...finish making love to it, for one thing. After that don't care. eom yawnmaster Sep 2012 #37

I don't care Generic Brad Sep 2012 #38

Cremated. Ashes flushed down toilet Major Nikon Sep 2012 #39

I've already signed up for medical school. Pool Hall Ace Sep 2012 #40

Dumped in a field to be picked apart by vultures. cpwm17 Sep 2012 #41

soylent green Johonny Sep 2012 #45

After the formal funeral memorial, we took my sister-in-law's ashes rustydog Sep 2012 #47

If I am still living here on this property, there is a Huge Oak Tree where One Day (many yrs from Tuesday Afternoon Sep 2012 #48

I'd allow for some of my organs to be donated to science rachel1 Sep 2012 #49

BBQ whistler162 Sep 2012 #50

Set ablaze on a viking longboat flying rabbit Sep 2012 #51

My inspiration: musette_sf Sep 2012 #52

Cremated HeiressofBickworth Sep 2012 #53

I read years ago Sweet Freedom Sep 2012 #54

Have it posed naked with about 20 naked women and have the pictures sold to a tabloid. HopeHoops Sep 2012 #55

Donated to science. I have already made the arrangements Glorfindel Sep 2012 #56

I wanna get turned into a RoboCop Blue_Tires Sep 2012 #57

My GF and I have been discussing just this as we fill out our living wills... Javaman Sep 2012 #58

My remains Moogy Sep 2012 #59

I'm going to medical school. I figure it's the only way I could ever get there and maybe kas125 Sep 2012 #60

Eaten by wild animals. Preferably crocodiles, vultures would be OK. dimbear Sep 2012 #62

donate to science juliathesexworker Sep 2012 #63