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Post by Shenguin on Nov 19, 2019 16:20:31 GMT
Weirdly enough I was having a conversation along these lines earlier. If people were incentivised to donate their bodies to medical science, i.e the boffins cover the cost of a memorial or whatever, then it reduces the demand on burial grounds, and saves having to fork out for a funeral. Everyone's a winner. Either that or sun cannon. There was an interesting item on R4 recently, with someone from Nottingham (I think) University or Hospital talking about the dignity and respect they afford donor bodies. I think they said they keep them for a couple of years and then return them to the family for burial or cremation. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Nov 19, 2019 16:22:54 GMT
You only have the right to be buried in a churchyard if you are a member of the parish and can afford a grave.
Otherwise it is at the discretion of the local church.
Traditionally graves have been reused once there were no family members left 50-150 years after the burial. It is a major reason why there are very few pre 1800 graves in the UK.
The cost of burial is a major reason why so many people are cremated. Ashes are scattered or left with the undertaker who will send occasional reminders asking you to pick them up.
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Post by Sheep2 on Nov 19, 2019 16:28:05 GMT
University medical faculties are creepy enough without giving them extra corpses to play with.
I believe UCL still has Jeremy Bentham on display.
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Post by Faceless on Nov 19, 2019 16:32:00 GMT
Weirdly enough I was having a conversation along these lines earlier. If people were incentivised to donate their bodies to medical science, i.e the boffins cover the cost of a memorial or whatever, then it reduces the demand on burial grounds, and saves having to fork out for a funeral. Everyone's a winner. Either that or sun cannon. There was an interesting item on R4 recently, with someone from Nottingham (I think) University or Hospital talking about the dignity and respect they afford donor bodies. I think they said they keep them for a couple of years and then return them to the family for burial or cremation. Sun cannon it is then. |
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Post by gongfarmer on Nov 19, 2019 16:43:51 GMT
Preferred Mammel keeps a china egg of each of her parents ashes in a small birdcage in a corner of the living room. Is this weird?
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Post by Sheep2 on Nov 19, 2019 16:45:05 GMT
Preferred Mammel keeps a china egg of each of her parents ashes in a small birdcage in a corner of the living room. Is this weird? Is there a bird in the birdcage? |
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Post by gongfarmer on Nov 19, 2019 16:48:00 GMT
I have noticed the glue seal on her Dad's egg is shonky, and he has a habit of 'leaking'
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Post by gongfarmer on Nov 19, 2019 16:48:52 GMT
Preferred Mammel keeps a china egg of each of her parents ashes in a small birdcage in a corner of the living room. Is this weird? Is there a bird in the birdcage? No. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Nov 19, 2019 16:54:16 GMT
I'm going for it would be a whole world of odd to keep eggs with ashes in them in a birdcage with a pet bird in (especially an owl, but any bird). We are talking keeping multiple psychiatrists in moolah for decades odd.
It's merely strange to keep them in eggs in an otherwise empty birdcage.
Is the use of a birdcage because they are egg shaped? Or does it symbolise some deep resentments about stifled creativity and restricted childhood?
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Post by Sheep2 on Nov 19, 2019 16:55:41 GMT
One last question.
Is you preferred mammal the weird evil creature that lives in an owl?
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Post by Sheep2 on Nov 19, 2019 16:57:44 GMT
Are there any other taxidermy specimens in your home?
Do you run a lonely motel?
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Nov 19, 2019 17:10:41 GMT
Does Gong have an army of stuffed squirrels in his home?
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Post by gongfarmer on Nov 19, 2019 17:12:43 GMT
A) The eggs are glittery, and with multiple grand-daughters the birdcage is to keep them away from light-fingered kids.
B)While she has on occasion been known to complain her legs are skinny, she's never mentioned having problems with feathers, or over-friendly owl-fanciers peeking up her nethers
c)Not unless you include a small steroid-pumped dog, who is normally stuffed with whatever she can raid from tables/bins
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Post by cobblers on Nov 19, 2019 17:19:56 GMT
When I die, bury me in the largest bit of ordnance you can find and fire it at whoever’s being the biggest twat, from close range. “X” being Mons Meg and “Y” the entire Tory front bench, for example.
There is nothing about that lot that couldn’t be improved by a direct hit from a bloated corpse travelling at an appreciable fraction of the speed of sound.
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Post by Felice Landry on Nov 19, 2019 17:53:59 GMT
tenthenemy Friend request sent, if anyone wants to add me the code is: SW-7526-8785-1396
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Post by RollingEscargot on Nov 19, 2019 18:03:32 GMT
After the fire in my workplace yesterday, on the way home tonight my car overheated and started belching out smoke. It's me, isn't it? I am the demons.
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Post by Shenguin on Nov 19, 2019 18:04:10 GMT
No thanks Felice Landry. I mean, thanks for the offer though, for sure. |
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Post by tenthenemy on Nov 19, 2019 18:23:00 GMT
tenthenemy Friend request sent, if anyone wants to add me the code is: SW-7526-8785-1396 I haven't started up the console yet but I'll take up the offer. I'm sure it's more promising than Shenguin by request only. I'll be poking them mons later, once I'm finished putting recycling bins out and sending emails. Apparently the friend stuff doesn't work reliably in-game but we'll cross that bridge once we get there by Pokebike. |
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Post by Faceless on Nov 19, 2019 18:25:25 GMT
tenthenemy Friend request sent, if anyone wants to add me the code is: SW-7526-8785-1396 Good work steering the chat away from gongs weird house/life. |
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Post by crankcaller on Nov 19, 2019 18:27:18 GMT
Christ I was part of the pant chat back in the day.
Hello. I've been at The Mitchell Library all* day at software usergroup thing.
I walked all the way back down Sauchiehall St which I hadn't done in a while. There's a new (to me anyway) big Forbidden Planet. I shouted abuse in the door on the way by.
Hopefully some gaming tonight.
*9.30 to 16.00. Business absence. Kerching!
{Edit}Should have borrowed a dictionary
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Post by Destry on Nov 19, 2019 18:27:22 GMT
Today's 'box has taken a distinct turn to the weird.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Nov 19, 2019 18:32:56 GMT
Christ I was part of the pant chat back in the day. Hello. I've been at The Mitchell Library all* day at software usergroup thing. I walked all the way back down Sauchiehall St which I hadn't done in a while. There's a new (to me anyway) big Forbidden Planet. I shouted abuse in the door on the way by. Hopefully some gaming tonight. *9.30 to 16.00. Business absence. Kerching! {Edit}Should have borrowed a dictionary I sometimes worked in the Mitchell Library when I was a student. I liked it. Books all over the fucking place. |
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Post by Destry on Nov 19, 2019 18:37:15 GMT
Hello. I've been at The Mitchell Library all* day Named after Phil, Grant, Sam or Peggy? |
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Post by amipal on Nov 19, 2019 18:42:16 GMT
University medical faculties are creepy enough without giving them extra corpses to play with. I believe UCL still has Jeremy Bentham on display. I'd read a while back that there is actually a surfeit of bodies donated to science. Other than medical students getting their hands dirty, there's not much else that can be learnt from a human corpse anymore apparently. |
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Post by crankcaller on Nov 19, 2019 18:45:37 GMT
Hello. I've been at The Mitchell Library all* day Named after Phil, Grant, Sam or Peggy? Nah. This guy. mitchelsellers.com/ |
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