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PoindexterOglethorpe

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11. Not at all morbid. I am constantly pestering people about these kinds of things.
Mon Oct 24, 2022, 10:43 PM
Oct 2022

My mother, who died in 1999, had decided years before she wanted to give her body to the University of Arizona medical school for dissection. She had told all of us six kids, and had a note on her refrigerator so EMTs would see it if they came to her house when she'd died.

All of us were very much on board with that decision. Eventually, we got her cremains back, and while it took some years, we eventually scattered her ashes in a place we knew she'd have been very happy about.

Personally, I want to be cremated, but I have zero idea where I might want my ashes scattered, so I'm beginning to think about a green burial.

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