Flushing Grandpa Down The Toilet
Jun. 6th, 2020 07:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jpegghostI had a nice weekend with Alex that was tragically boring solely from how fucking MISERABLE this heat wave is. It's currently 7:30, with the sun setting, and it's abouuuutt 90 degrees. I need to speak to who is in charge :/
I wrote an essay for my Mortuary Administration class (boo) on alkaline hydrolysis (yay!) and why it is good and the FUTURE of death. Wouldn't you like to be hit with water and acid over the course of several hours until you were brittle bone? Then that brittle bone pounded into powder and placed in a decorative urn? The professor responded:
"Good research and paper. Personally, I am squeamish about hydrolysis for the usual reasons; boiling grandpa in acid and flushing him down the drain? How is that respectful? But I know the new generation of funeral directors will have to come to grips with new demands."
But all that matters is that sweet sweet 100% I got.
Me and Alex then laid on the couch and tossed ideas back and forth on what to do while adhering to social distancing in public. We could go to a store, but people. We could go to the park, but the sun is currently boiling the city.
We ended up watching an Ode To A Most Belov'd Anamalocarus. Yes. All 4 minutes and 14 seconds. We truly lament the loss of such a pivotal ancestral arthropod.
I'm now deep into a rabbit hole of looking at bisected lungs filled with P. jiroveci fungi until the sun sets, then hopefully we can actually go for a walk in the ... Cool, chilly, 87 degree weather. Augh.
Pictured: Me
I wrote an essay for my Mortuary Administration class (boo) on alkaline hydrolysis (yay!) and why it is good and the FUTURE of death. Wouldn't you like to be hit with water and acid over the course of several hours until you were brittle bone? Then that brittle bone pounded into powder and placed in a decorative urn? The professor responded:
"Good research and paper. Personally, I am squeamish about hydrolysis for the usual reasons; boiling grandpa in acid and flushing him down the drain? How is that respectful? But I know the new generation of funeral directors will have to come to grips with new demands."
But all that matters is that sweet sweet 100% I got.
Me and Alex then laid on the couch and tossed ideas back and forth on what to do while adhering to social distancing in public. We could go to a store, but people. We could go to the park, but the sun is currently boiling the city.
We ended up watching an Ode To A Most Belov'd Anamalocarus. Yes. All 4 minutes and 14 seconds. We truly lament the loss of such a pivotal ancestral arthropod.
I'm now deep into a rabbit hole of looking at bisected lungs filled with P. jiroveci fungi until the sun sets, then hopefully we can actually go for a walk in the ... Cool, chilly, 87 degree weather. Augh.
Pictured: Me
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Date: 2020-06-07 01:13 am (UTC)Oh I like it. Much better than fire. I'm going to pick that. You know, if my preferred death of "in hole I dug myself and as I die dislodging the dirt I piled myself and yes, at the end she buried herself and planted her own memorial tree so y'all just fuck off now"
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Date: 2020-06-07 01:18 am (UTC)That's also a possibility and sounds like a green burial to me! People do that kind of thing -- Which I have also discussed in my proposal but no one wants to talk about how you can legally recreate The Wicker Man :/
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Date: 2020-06-07 01:22 am (UTC)i mean IDEALLY i would be exposed to the elements and like feed a hungry bear cub or something. sigh. what a waste of meat.
(DONATE ME TO A WILDLIFE RESCUE)
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Date: 2020-06-07 01:26 am (UTC)You'd be surprised how many people say in their will "Throw me in a ditch" ... And then the children choose an elaborate funeral worth 17k