burial rituals are a strange thing. putting dead things into the ground or burning them until they are ash make sense on an instinctual level. the cycle of life thing. but preparing bodies to be viewed for say a funeral is very strange. i understand the function, allowing people to say goodbye, to get some closure, but its a strange last image of someone and pumping them full of formaldehyde or whatever is very peculiar. i have seen tombstones that have photos of the deceased person on it. how does one choose this image? presumable they specified that they want this on their grave and they have a photo chosen before they go. if they have led a long life then how do they choose from a life of photos? do they choose from an image from when they were happiest or maybe from when they were best looking?
a friend of mine is not an organ donor because he doesn't know what he might need in the next stage of things. its hard to argue with thoughts like that.
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