Who cares if they eat me? I’m dead and the horror show is over.

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    I know somebody who ran with a kind of rough crowd. About a month after he was buried a few friends went to go pay respects to his grave. The place had all kinds of full liquor bottles left, and there were many empty beer cans nearby.

    One person said, “Why all the alcohol, he wasn’t a big drinker.”

    The other person said, “Yeah but his friends are.”

    That stayed with me as a very no frills kind connection people had.

  • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    So it crossed my mind looking at this meme that maybe the tradition of the wake with all the food and stuff came from a person who lived alone dying and maybe they had a pantry full of food nobody wanted to go to waste, so you just have a party where the dead person’s food gets eaten.

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      3 months ago

      That’s when everyone finds out the hard way that the cause of death was poisoned food from the pantry.

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    3 months ago

    Honestly, I would love to be eaten after my organs were harvested.

    Help people one last time, you know? It’s also symbolic because part of me will live on through them.

    #legalizeCannibalism

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        3 months ago

        All I’m saying, as a human, is that me and my fellow humans don’t need the nanny state telling us what to do. You should do your own research. Humans don’t need a nanny state telling them they can’t consume uncooked portions of human brains; they should be able to decide for themselves.

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            3 months ago

            Oh, no. If anything, we should put up more warning labels. Warning labels for scissors, knives, ovens. Just no warning labels for non-cooked meat. After all, food gives us life. How could it be harmful?

            Fire burns and destroys valuable nutrients.

            Consume the raw meat, human.

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              Funnily enough, some prions like those responsible for CWD will not be killed via cooking, but the infected material has to be incinerated to get rid of it.

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    I’d actually be honoured of my meat (and there is some amount of it) doesn’t go to waste. Is live to have a sky burial,but I guess i can forget it with our laws. Then again, what do I care what happens with my ballast when I’m gone.