What Not To Do With My Remains

[dr_pretentious]

Until I started writing fiction, I didn't know I had an obsession with bizarre funerary customs. Grave goods, mummification, ritual grave robbing, cremation, burning boats, decorative ossuaries--bring it on, there's a place in the Big Book for all of it.

All of it except this.

It's not gross. It's perfectly worksafe. It won't give you nightmares. It might give you a good laugh. The basic premise isn't any weirder than mummification, really. Nonetheless...

I'm with seedmoon on this one. Whatever you do with me, don't do that.

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[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

I don't want to see that movie, but there are writers who could write that story in a way that I'd want to read. I haven't read Harlan Ellison in a long time, but he's suitably twisted, I'm sure he'd do something surprising with it. Michael Swanwick would do something light and lyrical with it. He can make anything light and lyrical, especially materials that shouldn't be.

I have a friend who has expressed a desire to be cremated so that her ashes can be divided among as many of her friends as want them, and that we should keep or scatter them as we each see fit. It's a very trusting approach. She can absolutely trust me, however, not to put any of her in a twee stuffed bear.