Posts tagged with ‘death’

Meanwhile in Egypt… soon it will be legal to fuck your dead wife

Egyptian husbands will soon be legally allowed to have sex with their dead wives - for up to six hours after their death.

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This is what happens to metal implants after someone is cremated

When people are cremated, everything in the body is turned into fine ash— everything except for any non-organic components or implants the person may have had. So what happens to all those metal pins and knees and joints and bones? They’re recycled into new metal implants.

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New South Korean thing: Turning your departed loved ones into beads

When you or your loved ones pass on, as an alternative to burying or cremating or freezing or having your body stuffed and posed to put in your kid’s living room, many South Koreans have opted to have the remains of their family turned into beads.

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Virginia considering tax incentive for space burials

Being buried in the ground takes up a lot of room. Even if you’re cremated, you might have a headstone and that’s just more room and who wants to waste all that good land for dead people? The state of Virginia is thinking more about boosting traffic for its Mid-Atlantic Spaceport, but in any case, they’re considering offering tax incentives for those who want their remains blasted off into space.

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Today is Day of the Skulls in Bolivia. Dig up your ancestors and celebrate!

Day of the Skulls in an ancient tradition in Bolivia, based on the idea that people have seven spirits and one remains in the bones after the person dies. So after the dead is buried, they give it some time for the six other souls to leave and then dig up the body, keeping the skull and some other bones at home to care for.

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Daily Discussion: What do you want to do with your body when you die?

Halloween is a celebration of the harvest and of the death part of the cycle of life, yesterday was the Mexican Day of the Dead… this time of year it’s all about death death death. It’s a shitty part of life, but it’s a part of being here on this planet in these watery flesh bags with an expiration date. So when you go, if you could choose any possible burial or disposal method, what would it be?

Computer model reveals what would happen if humans were immortal

Haters gonna hate.

Death is one of the few certainties in life, and death and the length of the life of an organism seems to be set by one’s genes. If you watched this past season of Torchwood, you’ve heard most of the arguments against immortality— overpopulation, resources running dry, a weakening of the gene pool. From an evolutionary perspective, it’s in life’s interest that things reproduce while they’re young and healthy and then die.

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Burial? Cremation? What about just liquifying your useless dead ass?

Burial and cremation are so yesterday. So third world, so 1st century. In the future, all the cool people will have their remains liquified when they die. Personally, I’m partial to a Tibetan sky burial, but there are no really tall mountains around here, so I’d be fine with doing it on the roof of a KFC/Taco Bell. I’d disappear eventually.

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