[b]Mary Roach
…freshly dead popes are struck thrice on the forehead with a special silver hammer.[/b]
That shouldn’t surprise us. One for the Father, one for the Son and one for the Holy Ghost.
Sipski defines orgasm as a reflex of the autonomic nervous system that can be either facilitated or inhibited by cerebral input thoughts and feelings.
Explaing what exactly?
Mourning and moving on are hard enough. Why add to the burden? If someone wants to arrange a balloon launch of the deceased’s ashes into inner space, that’s fine. But if it’s burdensome or troubling for any reason, then perhaps they shouldn’t have to. McCabe’s policy is to honor the wishes of the family over the wishes of the dead. Willed body program coordinator’s feel similarly. ‘I’ve had kids object to their dad’s wishes [to donate],’ says Ronn Wade, director of the Anatomical Services Division of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. 'I tell them, "Do what’s best for you. You’re the one who has to live with it.
Let’s resolve this.
He will be lowered into a vat of liquid nitrogen and frozen. From here he will progress to the second chamber, where either ultrasound waves or mechanical vibration will be used to break his easily shattered self into small pieces, more or less the size of ground chuck. The pieces, still frozen, will then be freeze-dried and used as compost for a memorial tree or shrub, either in a churchyard memorial park or in the family’s yard.
Is this really as crazy as it sounds?
We are all nature, all made of the same basic materials, with the same basic needs. We are no different, on a very basic level, from the ducks and the mussels and last week’s coleslaw. Thus we should respect Nature, and when we die, we should give ourselves back to the earth.
I know: How comforting.
For those who must deal with human corpses regularly, it is easier (and, I suppose, more accurate) to think of them as objects, not people. For most physicians, objectification is mastered their first year of medical school, in the gross anatomy lab, or “gross lab,” as it is casually and somewhat aptly known. To help depersonalize the human form that students will be expected to sink knives into and eviscerate, anatomy lab personnel often swathe the cadavers in gauze and encourage students to unwrap as they go, part by part.
And then there’s the objectification of the living.