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Brownish, syrupy residue?

DIET COKE IS MADE OF PEOPLE!!!!!!!

Posted by NapoleonXIV | May 9, 2008 4:51 PM
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@1: I've always said it tasted like death.

Posted by Jerod | May 9, 2008 4:56 PM
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Granted, I didn't read the article, but there's nothing new about using lye to dispose of bodies.

Posted by Wolf | May 9, 2008 4:58 PM
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If you read Mary Roach's book "Stiff" you'd know all about alkaline hydrolysis and other cool ways to dispose of remains. Cause even putting your corpse in a box is just a way to dispose of it. I want to become compost for a tree- think it would be cool to have a fruit tree as my tombstone.

Posted by Enigma | May 9, 2008 4:59 PM
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I prefer to use peat bogs.

Posted by Will in Seattle | May 9, 2008 5:02 PM
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When I die, just buy me an "All Aboard America" pass and stick me on Amtrak. Someone will find me sooner or later, and do whatever they do with dead bodies.

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay | May 9, 2008 5:03 PM
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I'm opting for cryogenics if I can afford it.

Posted by Mr Fuzzy | May 9, 2008 5:10 PM
8

I'm going to be buried with my Darwin Award.

Posted by elenchos | May 9, 2008 5:14 PM
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I'm going to dig up elenchos' Darwin Award during a thunderstorm using a metal shovel, while it rains.

Posted by Will in Seattle | May 9, 2008 5:34 PM
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we should all be immersed in plastic resin--in sliced pieces, of course--and made into mobiles which hang from the ceiling. over the baby's crib.

Posted by ellarosa | May 9, 2008 8:14 PM
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Or they could turn us into coral farms ...

Posted by Will in Seattle | May 9, 2008 9:02 PM
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So what's the problem? Supposing I outlive them, I want my ashes sprinkled over my cats graves.

Posted by Crazy cat person | May 10, 2008 6:31 AM
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I was planning on the compost-for-fruit-tree thing, but then I read about this process where your ashes are compressed and turned into a diamond.

"Your ring is beautiful."

"It's my granny amazonmidwife."

Seriously though, I'll be dead so it won't matter; the family will do what it needs to.

Posted by amazonmidwife | May 10, 2008 6:43 AM
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Why all this technology and chemicals?

GATOR FARM!

Posted by CP | May 10, 2008 10:19 AM
15

Whatever happened to dumping the body in the woods?

Posted by Greg | May 10, 2008 12:50 PM

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