aviel wrote:It's worth noting that there currently is no right, under US law, to decide what happens with any body (your own included) when you die. You have only four options: you can bury a corpse, cremate it, donate its organs, or donate it to science.
It's my understanding there's a fifth option.
I'm an organ donor for the obvious reason that dead people don't need organs, so they can do whatever they want with my insides before they mummify and entomb me, while erecting a Bender-pharaoh-esque statue of me, complete with flame-breath. We have the same stupid system of 'even if you are a donor, we still need someone who isn't you to sign off on it once you're dead', making the whole thing moot. Anyway, in a country where stuff like
this is common, I don't think there'll be any scraps left to donate when I'm viciously killed, even if I do start living a somewhat healthy life.