{"id":1231,"date":"2005-03-31T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T02:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2005-03-31T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-01T02:11:00","slug":"living-will-foo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1231","title":{"rendered":"Living will foo"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘s recent post<\/a> on living wills and what not, got me thinking….<\/p>\n

I’d say that I haven’t done this yet, because deciding what to do with my body after my brain goes buhbye is up to the living, but really I think it’s mostly because I’m lazy. If there’s hope, keep me alive. Even if I come out retarded, I’m fine with that. Crippled and retarded, I’d adapt. If my speech centers go, if I am incapable of feeding myself or communicating, and there is no rational chance that that will be reversed, then pull the plug. Or spare the uncertainty and delay, pump me up with happyjuice til the meat can’t take it anymore. <\/p>\n

I’ve often thought how odd it would be for me to die. Who would know who to contact to get the word out for my funeral? Would they call everyone in my cell phone? (that would result in some awkward conversations, I’m sure.) Would some friends of mine not find out for years? It’s dumb to say, but I’d feel kind of bad for them (I know, I wouldn’t be feeling anything, if my guess as to the afterlife is on target), more accurately, the thought of people missing it who’d want to be there makes me a little sad now. Everyone should have their time to grieve and get on with their lives together.<\/p>\n

I signed up for organ donation with my last license. If my whim were the determinant of the fate of my remains, I’d say cremate the rest & use it to fertilize (is (human) ash useful as\/in fertilizer?) a garden somewhere. Maybe a floral garden if people get weird cannibalism vibes. Though the idea of my body helping feed other people has a certain symbolic beauty to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘s recent post on living wills and what not, got me thinking…. I’d say that I haven’t done this yet, because deciding what to do with my body after my brain goes buhbye is up to the living, but really I think it’s mostly because I’m lazy. If there’s hope, keep me alive. Even if … Continue reading “Living will foo”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}