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In reply to the discussion: End of life decisions [View all]

SCantiGOP

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5. I've already done that
Fri Oct 21, 2022, 09:46 PM
Oct 2022

but, at least in my state, the living relatives can overturn the decision if they choose to. One of my daughters is very opposed to my body being sent to the Medical University.

The best option I have heard of (I think it's legal in Oregon and maybe a few other states) is to have your body put into a burlap bag with soil and a tree, which is then planted. After a decade or so, none of your remains are left in the ground - everything that comprised your body has become part of the tree.
My wife likes this idea, but says I should become a part of a gum tree like the one we have that drops thousands of little pointy balls in our driveway every year. She says that way, I could keep annoying people after I'm gone.

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