Funerals

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My Aunty ( 92 when she passed) donated her body to medical research !!! Several years before she passed away

As I under stand it they retrieved her corpse took it to were ever fir training / dissection
And than they cover costs to bury or cremate her ??

 

[motorbiking]

That’s a noble thing to do.

 

[norseman]

That’s a noble thing to do.

A personal choice that should be respected of course, but such a decision can have a traumatic effect on any children already upset at their parent's passing.

 

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A personal choice that should be respected of course, but such a decision can have a traumatic effect on any children already upset at their parent's passing.

True and needs to be considered

Her husband had died some years prior and she also survived her only child ( son)

I also saw a prog ref The FBI in the states
Some people donate there bodies to there forensic training grounds

The bodies are just dumped in a field were they are used to train forensic students

The bodies are just left to decompose naturally in the open or in shallow graves etc

 

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Also not related as such but there was a doc on the radio ref autopsy’s on people they have died under suspicious circumstances

Aparently the number of such people that carry out autopsies on small children / infants / babies can be counted on your fingers for the whole of the UK understandably ??

Not the most pleasant of jobs potentially having to cut up babies ???

 

[gas112]

My Aunty ( 92 when she passed) donated her body to medical research !!! Several years before she passed away

As I under stand it they retrieved her corpse took it to were ever fir training / dissection
And than they cover costs to bury or cremate her ??

you get paid for donating your body , my grandad done it 3 times when he was skint. No one ever put a claim on his body so normal standard family funeral

 

[Justin Passing]

Not the most pleasant of jobs potentially having to cut up babies ???

Wouldn't bother me in the slightest, it's a job. We're all different.

I don't want a funeral. Body on a pole so the vultures get fed, would be fine.
To research, if they want me.

There's an odd "route" to training and research on dead humans in the uk, which doesn't exist in the USA. It's not allowed here to do things beyond a certain line (which I've forgotten) so we "go there", with pigs. Then there's a load of research to show how humans are like pigs, by Brits in the USA, to join the dots.

My mother will be dying soon, and frankly I'm not bothered about any funeral.
Nobody will be upset.
So what's it for?
"To show respect"? To whom - I mean who is seeing it?
Much of the world's funerology is about superstition. I'll pass on that.
In Madagascar they bury the bones above ground in a tomb thing because below ground is "fady" - bad, in some imagined way. Then when someone dreams about the person they get the bones out and go for a dance with them.

I have one distant brother. He might go to keep his wife happy.
She's the sort to "fall out" with people so I might go, to not do so with her, - all a bit silly.

 

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There is a religious sect from India parsee (?) religion

When they die they are put on an elevated platform and the vultures come down and eat them

There was a report in the independant paper a while back about some high rise luxury apartments that were built under the vultures flight path

Residents were finding body parts dropped on there balconies as the vultures flew back to there nesting sites

 

[Old Salt]

There is a religious sect from India parsee (?) religion

When they die they are put on an elevated platform and the vultures come down and eat them

There was a report in the independant paper a while back about some high rise luxury apartments that were built under the vultures flight path

Residents were finding body parts dropped on there balconies as the vultures flew back to there nesting sites

Saw something similar in Bombay (now Mumbai).

 

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Saw something similar in Bombay (now Mumbai).

Yeah must be that Parsee religious sect ???

 

[blup]

Similar experience.

My advice after my parents funerals.

Make a will, make sure your children ( or other beneficiaries) have a copy. There is no argument after the death if everybody is clear with the details. Include any things that you want to happen, or not happen.
Let those who will arrange your funeral know of your desires, type of funeral, cremation etc, celebration of life type, etc.
As long as your estate leaves enough to cover the cost of the funeral, the cost can be covered by it directly, before the estate is fully sorted (subject to official paperwork).

Plus buy a plot, the cemetery /area of choice may have got full when the grim reaper eventually strikes

 

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Also not related as such but there was a doc on the radio ref autopsy’s on people they have died under suspicious circumstances

Aparently the number of such people that carry out autopsies on small children / infants / babies can be counted on your fingers for the whole of the UK understandably ??

Not the most pleasant of jobs potentially having to cut up babies ???

It happens during more abortions than you would believe

 

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It happens during more abortions than you would believe

Well yes but that’s a slightly different circumstance

All came to my attention on a radio doc ref small children who’s. Bodies are delayed for release ref
Funerals

Due to the shortage of those professionals who need to carry out autopsy type investigations

 

[gas112]

i know someone who has had to attend young child autopsies , said its absolutely horrendous

 

[Justin Passing]

i know someone who has had to attend young child autopsies , said its absolutely horrendous

I object!. The procedure isn't horrendous, though the observer may or may not find it so.

Closest I ever got was helping a farmer clean out a myiasis on a cow's rump. There was blood and pus and the strong smell, but it was good to get the job done. I must have had feelings because I stamped on the maggots even though they aren't the baddies - they only eat rotting flesh.
Africa - all a bit diy out there sometimes.

The cow disapproved.