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I am an organ donor. Whatever they can use they will grab and whatever is left, well, maybe they will bury it and the worms will benefit or they will burn me up and I will help make mulch for something. I don't really care what they do as long as they make sure I am dead.  :o
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Low Maintenance, cool. 8)

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Re-animation is cool 8) If you did have the chance to take a byte out of Kim-Jong Il or a Chinese Party member, wouldn't you be afraid of SARS?
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No, I'd be dead...but I guess that my zombie reincarnation would be a carrier 8)

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No, I'd be dead...but I guess that my zombie reincarnation would be a carrier 8)
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True. True. You're thinking of indestructible undead. I could probably hack away at you and you'd keep coming back.

I was thinking more along the lines of Zombi undead the way it's done in the Caribbean 8) Those dudes still are susceptible to getting sick and living as humans do and can be killed (i.e. They came back from the dead to live!).

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I was thinking more along the lines of Zombi undead the way it's done in the Caribbean 8) Those dudes still are susceptible to getting sick and living as humans do and can be killed (i.e. They came back from the dead to live!).
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Sounds like my ex girlfriends mother.

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True. True. You're thinking of indestructible undead. I could probably hack away at you and you'd keep coming back.

I was thinking more along the lines of Zombi undead the way it's done in the Caribbean 8) Those dudes still are susceptible to getting sick and living as humans do and can be killed (i.e. They came back from the dead to live!).
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I think the powers of regeneration would be awesome, since I always find a way to injure myself (no broken bones yet, but plenty of dislocations and sprains...knock on wood).  And I would love to be able to juggle cars.  My immune system is already pretty crazy (I donated blood to one of my own experiments to test my neutrophils and they just destroyed the bacteria like nothing else) so I think zombie powers would only make me stronger ;)

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Sounds like my ex girlfriends mother.
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You need to bring her to Newfoundland and have her gaze upon the sea, then she'll realize she's supposed to be dead and go back to the waters...at least that's what I've read of zombie legend ;D

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You need to bring her to Newfoundland and have her gaze upon the sea, then she'll realize she's supposed to be dead and go back to the waters...at least that's what I've read of zombie legend ;D
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There's no way I could spend 18 hours in a car with her, besides i'm pretty sure the ocean would just spit her out.

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There's no way I could spend 18 hours in a car with her, besides i'm pretty sure the ocean would just spit her out.
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We certainly don't want to add to the pollution, do we?  ;)

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If I go for burial there will be NO enbalming.  What's the point?  It costs too much money, and doesn't really preserve the body at all.
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I think the undertakers lobby made it so that you have to be cremated with a coffin and that all corpses must be in a casket and embalmed...it's part of the law :P  Who said people didn't have voices in government?  ::)

Personally I think it'd be funny as hell if they took my dead body and paraded me around like Weekend at Bernie's, but that's just my sick sense of humor talking 8)

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I don't mean to be flip....wait a minute, yes I do.... ::)


How about a Viking funeral?  Laid out on a boat with food, my favorite posessios, and a couple of drugged naked hotties to serve my every desire in the afterlife.   8) 8)

Then the cremation....


Who says you can't take it with you? :o
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XenaKat, you have just planned my end.  I owe you a big  :-*.  Thank you. :)

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I intensely dislike the tradition of a wake.  I do not like to go view the enbalmed body of someone who used to be alive, no matter how well I knew them (or not as the case may be).

Almost everyone I know feels the same way, yet they, or their families have arranged for one or two day's worth of "visiting hours" as it is euphemistically called when planning their own.

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My sentiments exactly, XK13!! My idea of what I want is a lot like the one RaceB said they did for his buddy. I told some family members this and they were like :o......."That's just not acceptable". ::) It surprises me how many of us opt for cremation. I want half my ashes scattered at Buckroe Beach, Va. and half on top of East River Mt. (Local "overlook") because, in life, I never could decide which I liked better (the mountains or the ocean) so why be different when I kick the proverbial bucket?

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I intensely dislike the tradition of a wake.  I do not like to go view the enbalmed body of someone who used to be alive, no matter how well I knew them (or not as the case may be).

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Oh, I totally agree with you Kat.  I have never nor will I ever view a body in a casket like that.  My reason is because I don't want my last memory of a person to be dead.  Like at my grandmother's wake.....I kept telling everyone "I will not let the last photographic memory of gramma be dressed up, made-up & lying in a box, I would rather picture her alive".  Not only that, but every wake I have been too (which hasn't been very many) everyone says it doesn't look like the person anyway.  

Needless to say, I don't want a wake.  Plaster my pictures up on the walls in the funeral, but please don't look at my dead body.  I mean, what if the mortician didn't style my hair & apply my make-up right?   ::)  I'd be pissed.