Ambrose's Answers (someone of a similar backround)
Do your grandparents or parents prefer burial or cremation?
-cremation
Is it important to you that you be buried or cremated?
-no
Do your family members believe in having wakes or burials with open caskets in which the bodies are worked on to look as good as possible?
-no
Would you like to be in an open casket yourself (when dead obviously – sorry for this one)?
-no
Have your grandparents or other family members ever mentioned where they would like to be buried or have their ashes put or spread or what music they would like at their funeral or any other details about how they would like to go out of this world?
-yes, my grandmother has mentioned music she would like to have played at her funeral.
Have any members of your family filled out organ donor cards?
- no, i don't' think so
Do you think you would ever fill one out?- no
Would you feel good about having someone be able to live thanks to one of your organs?
- While I would feel good about someone else living because I was a donor, I believe in keeping my body in one piece after I die (if i can help it).
Have you ever had a pet die? If so, did you bury it or did the vet take it?
- Yes I have buried two turtles, two dogs, and a crawfish in my back yard. Also buried my friends cat in the mountains.
If someone else would pay for you to have your body frozen and maintained so that you might be brought back to life one day (in spite of all current scientific evidence saying this is impossible), would you agree to be frozen?
- Maybe, I would have to think about it more when the time came, it would depend how old I was already. Sounds cold too!
Alexis's Answers (someone that I don't know that well)
Do your grandparents or parents prefer burial or cremation?
- cremation
Is it important to you that you be buried or cremated?
- no
Do your family members believe in having wakes or burials with open caskets in which the bodies are worked on to look as good as possible?
- no
Would you like to be in an open casket yourself (when dead obviously – sorry for this one)?
- no
Have your grandparents or other family members ever mentioned where they would like to be buried or have their ashes put or spread or what music they would like at their funeral or any other details about how they would like to go out of this world?
- no
Have any members of your family filled out organ donor cards? Do you think you would ever fill one out? Would you feel good about having someone be able to live thanks to one of your organs?
- yes, yes, yes
Have you ever had a pet die? If so, did you bury it or did the vet take it? yes, --- buried
If someone else would pay for you to have your body frozen and maintained so that you might be brought back to life one day (in spite of all current scientific evidence saying this is impossible), would you agree to be frozen?
- no
Marc's Answers (someone who is a close friend)
Do your grandparents or parents prefer burial or cremation?
burial
Is it important to you that you be buried or cremated?
- Catholics are supposed to remain "intact" so yes
Do your family members believe in having wakes or burials with open caskets in which the bodies are worked on to look as good as possible?
- No wake, just a memorial service.
Would you like to be in an open casket yourself (when dead obviously – sorry for this one)?
- No
Have your grandparents or other family members ever mentioned where they would like to be buried or have their ashes put or spread or what music they would like at their funeral or any other details about how they would like to go out of this world?
- My grandparents never talk about it but my parents want to be buried in their hometown in Mexico
Have any members of your family filled out organ donor cards? Do you think you would ever fill one out? Would you feel good about having someone be able to live thanks to one of your organs?
- I will be the first member of my family that will fill out an organ donor card
Have you ever had a pet die? If so, did you bury it or did the vet take it?
- I have never had a pet due to the fact that my parents are very cheap
If someone else would pay for you to have your body frozen and maintained so that you might be brought back to life one day (in spite of all current scientific evidence saying this is impossible), would you agree to be frozen?
- Hell No!
Jason (someone of a similar back round) and Emily (someone of a different backround)
Do your grandparents or parents prefer burial or cremation?
--Cremation (Jason)
--Some burial, some cremation (Emily)
Is it important to you that you be buried or cremated?
-- I'd prefer cremation (Jason)
-- Cremation (Emily)
Do your family members believe in having wakes or burials
with open caskets in which the bodies are worked on to look
as good as possible?
-- No (Jason)
-- Yes, they do (but this doesn't really work. My father looked like he was on a roller coaster ride) (Emily)
Would you like to be in an open casket
yourself (when dead obviously – sorry for this one)?
-- Not especially (Jason)
-- I don't mind-- as long as my mouth isn't hanging open (Emily)
Have your grandparents or other family members ever mentioned
where they would like to be buried or have their ashes put or spread or
what music they would like at their funeral or any other details
about how they would like to go out of this world?
-- My mother has expressed some interest in music and texts she would like read, but says she does not care where her ashes are placed. (Jason)
-- My father asked to just be put in a Hefty trash bag. My mother just doesn't want to talk about it. (Emily)
Have any members of your family filled out organ donor cards?
Do you think you would ever fill one out? Would you feel good about
having someone be able to live thanks to one of your organs?
-- No. I'd prefer not to have my recently deceased body disturbed in this way. (Jason)
-- I haven't decided on this yet. (Emily)
Have you ever had a pet die? If so, did you bury it or did the vet take it?
-- Yes, I have three buried in my backyard. (Jason)
-- I bury mine (Emily)
If someone else would pay for you to have your body frozen and maintained
so that you might be brought back to life one day (in spite of all current scientific
evidence saying this is impossible), would you agree to be frozen?
-- No, this is the very last thing I would want to happen to my body. (Jason)
-- No, no, no. (Emily)
What amazed me most about the responses was that two of the people said they would not fill out organ donor cards and one said she was not sure whether she would. One of the people who said he would not is known as a very generous person, and I know he is not Catholic. Actually, the religious excuse makes no sense to me. If you can save another person's life or help another person see after you are gone, why would your god not like you to do that? To me giving away organs after death when we are all going to turn into dust anyway is such an obviously good thing to do. It can't even cause us any pain. I am very proud of one of my best friends whose family is Catholic, who says he will be the first member of his family to fill out an organ
donor card. I have even more respect for him now than I did before.
Only my close friend who is Catholic said definitely that he wanted to be buried.
Here is another problem with the Catholic religion in my opinion. Cremation is better in every way. It is much less expensive although not as cheap as a Hefty bag, but cremation has more dignity. The ashes can go where the dead person asked them to go, and relatives don't have to feel guilty if they are far away and can't visit the grave. Also, there are a lot of Catholics and not so much land for burials.
Regarding my question about buring animals vs. taking them to the vet, I think people
bury their pets because it doesn't cost anything.
Regarding my somewhat stupid question about wanting to be frozen or not if someone else would pay for the process, I was interested that one person I know said that he
would like to do it if he died next month so that he could wake up with a young body.
He would never want it done if he was old and wrinkly.
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