my grandfather died on saturday (whilst i was in london) and i've come back to a family with one less member (there were only 7 in my family to start with).

over the past couple of days we've been talking about his funeral, and they have decided to use a photograph so everyone can remember him. my parents wanted a photo of him a few years ago.. my grandma wants one that was taken 20 years ago. i had to agree with the latter.. i think it's far more important for my grandma to remember him in the middle of their life, rather than when he was older.

i would like a similar thing. if i go when i'm old.. i want people to remember me when i was younger and full of life. if i go relatively soonish, i'd like a picture that isn't necessarily the most flattering, but one that shows me with a lot of energy.

and i would like to donate my organs... but i actually don't know if i can. i remember signing up when i sent off for my drivers license, but i can't give blood due to having an operation and receiving blood when i was younger.. so i wonder if it applies to that, too.

but if i can - i will. i wouldn't pass on the opportunity to save someone elses life once mine is over.

Edited by Jeeennnnniiiii - September/04/2008 at 7:01am

I have made absolutely no arrangements whatsoever.

I am just presuming when I die, anything I own will go to my Mum, which is what I would want.

And I'll be dead, so why should I care what happens to my body after that?

Although when I was younger I wanted to be either embalmed or frozen.

Sorry to hear that Jenni, hope you're bearing up ok.

Originally posted by Amplexus Originally posted by Rouslan spend a few days in scientific lab As it is, I shall not be doing that. One of my mum's friends has recently finished training to be a chiropracter, during which they used corpses for practice. Those bodies are treated appallingly, in both a physically and sexually abusive manner. If it wasn't for that, I would. And I know I know! I'll be dead, so who cares what they do? Well, I would. I would not intentionally put myself forward fro that kind of abuse, alive or dead.

Oh, yeah, I've seen a picture of a dead girl with a glue stick stuck in her vagina on encyclopedia dramatica's "offended"(wich i scrolled all without vomiting). I would hate that to happen to me..I dont know. People those days don't have any respect for dead people. I want to be burnt and to have half my ashes transformed into a diamond.The other half, I want them to be mixed to my man's to create a second diamond. Of course, I'll give out my organs: I'm type O- and I can give to just everyone..

i wouldn't wish for an autopsy - they'd screw up my ink damnit.
and i'd wish to be burnt on a funeral pyre.
but those are illegal in Malta. so i'll have to check whereabouts they're allowed.
and my books, they'd have to be given to whoever can appreciate them, not sold.
anything else, i don't care.