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fuck thousands for a coffin. or hundreds for an urn. can i legally be burried in butcher paper?

can i donate my body to science and skip burrial all together?

i want my final action to be a big middle finger to the funeral industry picking on people in their weakest moments.

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[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Become entirely homeless and cut off all contacts and remove all identification so no one will be around to care when you die.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, in my mind it's freezing to death on a side walk pressed against a wall trying to stay under the one unobstructed over hang.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Please, I can only get so erect.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm sincerely curious, what is done with corpses like that? And who takes care of it?

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

They just stay in the morgue until there is no room and then cremate you for space.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I wonder why they wouldn't just cremate immediately, which makes me wonder if morgue is waiting for a moment when cremating a non-paying homeless person would be most time-and cost-efficient, horrifying I imagine that they might throw that body in with the next paying customer. You know family members are never allowed to witness a cremation of loved one, even if they're the ones who paid the fee. So hey, morgue might as well throw in a homeless guy, make it a two-for-one deal. Because surely there are costs associated with heating up the crematorium.