In today's mail...

[laconicsax]

An advertisement for continuing education for health care professionals and community education seminars for the general public from Bastyr "University." (http://www.bastyr.edu/continuinged)

Seminars for health care professionals:
-Li Shizhen's Exposition on the Eight Extraordinary Vessels
-ND Billing & Coding
-Bowenwork
-Endocrine Disruptors
-Cultivating a Healing Presence
-Conditions in the 50+ Population
-Ancient Chinese Parasitology & Gu Syndrome
-Kinetic Chain Approach to Musculoskelatal Pain

Seminars for the general public:
-Hatha Yoga
-Cooking Fermented Foods
-Guided Autobiography
-Tarot Card Reading
-Food as Medicine
-The Body Reveals Through Meditation
-Botanica Erotica
-Responding to Stress
-Raw Food Prep
-Botanical Shamanism.

Seminars for both groups:
-Home Funerals & Green Burials
-Medical Qigong for Diabetes
-Essential Oil Therapy
-CranioSacral Therapy
-Zen & Chinese Medicine
-Cleansing the Human Biofield

:spray::rofl:

[realisticphish]

1. green burials?

what, does that mean no embalming or something?

[trotsky]

2. Yes indeed.

Hardly a woo idea, thankfully. Only a few states allow it; unfortunately mine is not one. I prefer cremation over traditional burial but it does take a lot of energy and releases a lot of pollution to cremate a body. Hopefully there will be better options when I die A LONG LONG TIME FROM NOW. :)

[laconicsax]

3. Too bad soylent isn't an option...yet. n/t

[lizerdbits]

4. I'd like to be donated to that body farm.

In Knoxville I think. Traditional burial is a waste of space, cremation as you said isn't that great either. Why not help science and forensics? I'm not sure what they do if you have any bones left over after they're done.

[realisticphish]

6. I read that guy's book

absolutely fascinating. It's something I would consider.

It's been invaluable to forensic science and anatomy.

[trotsky]

10. I would love that kind of ending as well.

Return to the earth, consuming as little resources as possible to do so. After every useful bit of whatnot has been plucked from my corpse first!

[onager]

5. Yep. As seen in "Six Feet Under"

No **SPOILERS**! Like character names or anything...

One character has a "green burial." Not embalmed, and the body is buried in a biodegradable cardboard box coffin. In this case, under a big tree. With the idea that the decomposing body would feed the tree.

I think it's a pretty neat idea myself, and I think I will check into it.

Whoa! Google-Christ tells me that one of the green cemeteries is in my home state, South Carolina - the Ramsey Creek Preserve. If I want to get planted in my adopted state, Calif. has one as well:

http://www.greenburials.org/index.htm

Right now my will says I'm to be cremated, after being harvested for all useful spare parts.

That's about the best kind of real immortality I can imagine - if part of me lived on in somebody else.

During a visit to South Carolina once, I told one of my fundie relatives I was signed up as an organ donor. She was horrified...because my body won't be complete on Judgment Day. Does that mean all my pieces get Raptured individually? :eyes:

[salvorhardin]

7. "Does that mean all my pieces get Raptured individually?"

You can't imagine all the trouble that creates for God. Why the paperwork required to track down all those errant body parts alone! And you can just imagine the lawsuits if some minor angel flubs up and Cousin Larry is raptured only to find he has a black man's eyeball and a Jew's spleen.

[Deep13]

8. Thanks, God, for giving me back the train-wreck of a body...

...that is suffciently damaged to have quit on me in the first place!

[charlie]

9. I guess she'll love getting those inflamed tonsils and appendix back

And a restored lifetime of lost blood will make her look like a walking pomegranite.

It's a pity silicone gets left behind. She'll be sporting deflated bazongas for eternity. Bummer.

Make fun of a role playing geek's obsessions and everyone laughs. Goof on a Christian's cartoon heaven and everyone up to the president will say you're not fit for decent company.

Funny that.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. I think the Left Behind series missed a trick there

They could have had donated kidneys magically disappearing from the ungodly recipients, backsliding Christians struck blind as their donated retinas vanished, etc. Alternatively, rather than leaving behind piles of clothes, eyeglasses etc., you could have had a pair of lungs sitting on an airplane seat.

I can't remember if Left Behind specified what happened to intestinal contents ...