Ash, Diamonds, Stones, Trees, Compost, Effluent, or … Plastic?
Of all potential methods of final disposition, this one may qualify as the most “21st Century.” Plastination is the process of converting flesh to plastic by replacing a...
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I Used to Want to Donate my Corpse to Science
True story. I’d gone so far as to request the appropriate papers from my alma mater, a big midwestern teaching university, to find out how to leave my...
10 Ways Sextons and Senators Have Historically Defended Corpses and Their Rights
Wouldn’t it be nice if “final disposition” was always, well, “final?” Unfortunately, ensuring that corpses actually end up — and stay, intact or otherwise — where they are...
Efforts to Battle Body Broker Side Gigs and Sketchy Donations Continue
Last year Connecting Directors reported the FBI raid of Colorado’s Sunset Mesa Funeral Home. According to Reuters, the funeral home’s owner, Megan Hess, ran a side business as...