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Hal
Skeptic Friend
USA
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 Posted - 11/07/2011 : 15:42:31
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On another forum, there was a discussion of corpse-disposal preferences that took a promising turn when someone posted that they wanted to confuse future archeologists by being buried with numerous ancient artifacts, and an iphone.
I've never much cared what becomes of my "mortal coil," but this sparked my imagination. If I did decide to make a game of it, I'm thinking I'd like my body to be bound in heavy iron chains with an iron bar run through my heart, and then entombed in a sarcophagus under several tons of granite blocks. The monument should be inscribed with several rows of runes, which must, of course, be completely undecipherable gibberish.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 11/07/2011 : 19:33:07 [Permalink]
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Have you seen Motel of the Mysteries?It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization. As for myself, I plan on donating my cadaver to a medical school. Since most of them wind up in basic anatomy classes, I also plan on getting a dotted line tattooed down my spine with "CUT HERE FIRST" written along it. Not original, but still fun. |
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alienist
Skeptic Friend
USA
210 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2011 : 10:39:01 [Permalink]
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| You can also have a tattoo that says "YOu idiot, Don't cut here!" |
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 11/08/2011 : 11:00:05 [Permalink]
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 11/08/2011 : 11:40:43 [Permalink]
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| Better would be to create a cell phone/communicator using only bronze age materials, of course you have to make sure that you are not buried with anything organic and you'll have to dig up some bronze age charcoal to be found with. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 11/08/2011 : 11:56:40 [Permalink]
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| How about you surgically install a device that shocks the students when they cut into you! As a bonus you could insert the tiny game peices from Operation. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Hal
Skeptic Friend
USA
302 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2011 : 13:42:41 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
How about you surgically install a device that shocks the students when they cut into you! As a bonus you could insert the tiny game peices from Operation.
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Or have the mortician install some kind of spring-loaded jack-in-the-box device? I think I'm going to watch John Carpenter's The Thing again soon.... |
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podcat
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 11/08/2011 : 13:58:02 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
How about you surgically install a device that shocks the students when they cut into you! As a bonus you could insert the tiny game peices from Operation.
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Only if you could make the nose light up if the side was touched during removal. |
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Trolling future archeologists
