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azurelunatic) wrote2002-06-11 04:13 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2002-06-11 04:13 pm
On funeral customs (copy of comment to discussion)
"Waste not, want not."
It's the Betan way, after all.
On the back of my Official Alaska State Organ Donor Card (little slip of card, filled out at the same time as I got the license, then laminated) I wrote in green ink: "I love you all", in the way of a final message to my family and friends, should review of the card become necessary.
Display of body? Closure. I'd far prefer the display of various portraits of me (which reminds me, time to break out the gouache and paper again, for various reasons) and the reading of passages of various of my favorite literary works, and the sharing of comforting memories by those I love who love me who survive me. If possible, I would prefer that those who have been given life again by my spare parts would have the option of attending, that those who love me might see that certain physical bits of me do live on, as well as my spirit in the unknowable and in their hearts.
It's the Betan way, after all.
On the back of my Official Alaska State Organ Donor Card (little slip of card, filled out at the same time as I got the license, then laminated) I wrote in green ink: "I love you all", in the way of a final message to my family and friends, should review of the card become necessary.
Display of body? Closure. I'd far prefer the display of various portraits of me (which reminds me, time to break out the gouache and paper again, for various reasons) and the reading of passages of various of my favorite literary works, and the sharing of comforting memories by those I love who love me who survive me. If possible, I would prefer that those who have been given life again by my spare parts would have the option of attending, that those who love me might see that certain physical bits of me do live on, as well as my spirit in the unknowable and in their hearts.
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