I heard about a tattooed guy in Australia who after finding out he had inoperable lung cancer got even more tattoos and stipulated in his will that he wanted to be skinned and his skin tanned and then hung up for display in his favorite bar and it all happened. Now THAT is creepy.
I never gave my corpse’s disposal much thought, but getting it stuffed sounds like a great idea. Then to top it off, come back and haunt the place where it ends up being kept.
The Bios Urn is something I saw recently. I really liked the idea and would rather leave a tree then a tombstone. My tree would be be able to give fruit for centuries. Or just be pretty, but I prefer berries for all!
I want to be cryopreserved and eventually brought back to life. Sadly, I am a minor and as such have no say in what happens to me if I die before I am an adult. 🙁
Well, with the way people are being cryopreserved right now, it’s amazing how few people are going GLASSY-eyed over it. (the most successful technology for long term tissue preservation today is vitrification) 🙂
I’m gonna go with the whole “I’m dead so take what you need and burn the rest!” approach…but that probably comes with the whole working in medicine thing 🙂
Yes sure you can…just gotta write down you dont want to donate your skin. The rest is fair game 🙂 sounds evil i know
SurlyQueen
Wow! I never really thought of donating skin, but I guess it could be reused. Just never really thought about it.
Lol, I guess organ transplanting does sound kind of evil in the wrong context!
eilianth
Burn victims and similar stuff get skin sometime.
And the sad thing is, that there are too many people who assume the organs are gonna be used in the wrong way…but I’m gonna start rambling if i get into that subject 🙂 and then my english is gonna suck even more XD
SurlyQueen
That make sense now that you mention it, I’d just never thought about donating skin. And I get what you’re saying.
if your ashes are in the soil and the tree absorbs your nutrients then bares fruit with your nutrients, people will be eating you! (indirectly, yes. but neat!) and they won’t even know! bwa haha!
i think i will do all- donate most of my innards, then get stuffed, then cremate what cant be used and bury it with a tree so people can eat my parts.
they really have these head- shaped urns that they make from a photo like a 3d printer can. they can’t even hold all of your ashes though. just like part of em. and people dont even make that much ash.
What’s also creepy is that you can get cremated when you die, then they can take the ashes and turn them into a diamond. That sounds pretty awesome – and it is – but it’s a lot more creepy for your relatives…
“Hey Mom, I love this diamond necklace that Gran’ma left me! I’ve been wearing it all week! I’m surprised I don’t remember seeing her wear it before.”
“Oh, she never wore it, sweetie. That diamond is made from your grandmother’s ashes.”
“…”
“What’s the matter?”
“I’ve been… wearing… my dead grandmother… for a week?!?!?!”
Have yourself stuffed and posed the way you described in the comic, then have Raf (or whoever else inherits you) bring you to parties and stuff and put you in the coat closet! Or the bathroom!
38 thoughts on “#376 Dead”
raisin
Wierd that when i think about being stuffed i never thought about being dead as an old lady. i’d always been my age in my mind.
SurlyQueen
Now that you think about it…I have to confess I’m picturing my current age as well, not “Older Future Wendy.”
Not sure what that says about me…
Little Voodoo Dolly
I like those people who have their dead stuffed Chihuahua posed curled up on top of the grand piano or the fireplace mantel. Soooooo creeeeeeeeeepy.
Gilhelmi
I am so sad that is illegal in the US. Stupid law, I should be allowed to be stuffed if I want to be.
bardcrest
I heard about a tattooed guy in Australia who after finding out he had inoperable lung cancer got even more tattoos and stipulated in his will that he wanted to be skinned and his skin tanned and then hung up for display in his favorite bar and it all happened. Now THAT is creepy.
Laurat81
In an art gallary-not bar. Though that doesn’t really make it less creepy. And it doesn’t mention anything about the lung cancer-oh lord what if there are TWO of them! 😐
http://newsbizarre.com/2009/05/geoff-ostling-tattoo-man-skin-to-hang.html
SurlyQueen
THAT IS SO CRAZY!
SurlyQueen
“Tan me hide when I’m dead, Fred, Tan me hide when I’m dead…”
XD Sorry! Now I’ll have that song stuck in my head forever.
AF
That is the creepiest thing I have ever read.
Hugh B Hayve
I never gave my corpse’s disposal much thought, but getting it stuffed sounds like a great idea. Then to top it off, come back and haunt the place where it ends up being kept.
SurlyQueen
I never really gave it that much thought, until this day, then my mind went here….
Must’ve been a weird day.
Iggy
I want to be mummified. And put up as a display is a creepy antique shop. ^^
SurlyQueen
Ooooooh. Would you go with some kind of contemporary version of an Egyptian sarcophagus?
Iggy
Something like that. Only I want the wrappings to be plaid and green with purple polka dots and stuff like that. I want nothing to match.
Lex-Kat
Something similar has happened in the U.S.. Look up Elmer McCurdy.
He was killed in 1911. His remains were mummified and used as an attraction until 1976.
Leaf
I want to be cremated and have my ashes buried with with seed/sapling of a fruit bearing tree.
SurlyQueen
That’s a really beautiful idea.
Leaf
The Bios Urn is something I saw recently. I really liked the idea and would rather leave a tree then a tombstone. My tree would be be able to give fruit for centuries. Or just be pretty, but I prefer berries for all!
Kelardry
I want to be cryopreserved and eventually brought back to life. Sadly, I am a minor and as such have no say in what happens to me if I die before I am an adult. 🙁
SurlyQueen
As long as you make it to adulthood!
And if Futurama has taught me anything, it’s that cryogenics is awesome (almost said cool, and then realized the terrible, TERRIBLE pun.).
Kelardry
Well, with the way people are being cryopreserved right now, it’s amazing how few people are going GLASSY-eyed over it. (the most successful technology for long term tissue preservation today is vitrification) 🙂
graybi
I want to be abducted by aliens and when they kill me I will be preserved In a HUGE jelly tank!!!! 🙂
SurlyQueen
Hahah! Nice!
bardcrest
Personally, I have decided to skip the whole dying thing all together. It just doesn’t sound like my kind of thing.
eilianth
I’m gonna go with the whole “I’m dead so take what you need and burn the rest!” approach…but that probably comes with the whole working in medicine thing 🙂
SurlyQueen
That’s fair! I can still donate and be stuffed though, right? I mean, they don’t need all those inside bits for that XD
eilianth
Yes sure you can…just gotta write down you dont want to donate your skin. The rest is fair game 🙂 sounds evil i know
SurlyQueen
Wow! I never really thought of donating skin, but I guess it could be reused. Just never really thought about it.
Lol, I guess organ transplanting does sound kind of evil in the wrong context!
eilianth
Burn victims and similar stuff get skin sometime.
And the sad thing is, that there are too many people who assume the organs are gonna be used in the wrong way…but I’m gonna start rambling if i get into that subject 🙂 and then my english is gonna suck even more XD
SurlyQueen
That make sense now that you mention it, I’d just never thought about donating skin. And I get what you’re saying.
raisin
if your ashes are in the soil and the tree absorbs your nutrients then bares fruit with your nutrients, people will be eating you! (indirectly, yes. but neat!) and they won’t even know! bwa haha!
i think i will do all- donate most of my innards, then get stuffed, then cremate what cant be used and bury it with a tree so people can eat my parts.
they really have these head- shaped urns that they make from a photo like a 3d printer can. they can’t even hold all of your ashes though. just like part of em. and people dont even make that much ash.
SurlyQueen
Heh. “and bury it with a tree so people can eat my parts” <---- misread that as "so tree people can eat my parts" at first!
Ashley
I’m having myself cremated, mixed with clay and made into a creepy lawn gnome. 😀
SurlyQueen
Hahahaha! That’s certainly original!
Evan
I want to me made into fire works and shot over the clyde river in nova scotia
heroesofcrash
What’s also creepy is that you can get cremated when you die, then they can take the ashes and turn them into a diamond. That sounds pretty awesome – and it is – but it’s a lot more creepy for your relatives…
“Hey Mom, I love this diamond necklace that Gran’ma left me! I’ve been wearing it all week! I’m surprised I don’t remember seeing her wear it before.”
“Oh, she never wore it, sweetie. That diamond is made from your grandmother’s ashes.”
“…”
“What’s the matter?”
“I’ve been… wearing… my dead grandmother… for a week?!?!?!”
SurlyQueen
Creepy? I believe you mean THE MOST AWESOME THING EVER! I’ve actually had conversations about this with Raf XD
Ashonai
Have yourself stuffed and posed the way you described in the comic, then have Raf (or whoever else inherits you) bring you to parties and stuff and put you in the coat closet! Or the bathroom!
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