You can't specify what happens to you when you donate your remains to science, only what doesn't happen. The dead people whose parts Glover and Corcoran have plastinated over the years checked a box on their University of Michigan donor form indicating that they did not object to "permanent preservation", but they didn't request it specifically.
Here’s the other thing I think about. It makes little sense to try to control what happens to your remains when you are no longer around to reap the joys or benefits of that control. People who make elaborate requests concerning disposition of their bodies are probably people who have trouble with the concept of not existing. Leaving a note requesting that your family and friends travel to the Ganges or ship your body to a plastination lab in Mich... (查看原文)
There is a passage in the Buddhist Sutra on Mindfulness called the Nine Cemetery Contemplations. Apprentice monks are instructed to meditate on a series of decomposing bodies in the charnel ground, starting with a body “swollen and blue and festering,” processing to one “being eaten by… different kinds of worms,” and moving on to a skeleton, “without flesh and blood, held together by the tendons.” The monks were told to keep meditating until they were calm and a smile appeared on their faces. I described this to Arpad and Ron, explaining that the idea is to come to peace with the transient nature of our bodily existence, to overcome the revulsion and fear. Or something.
We all stare at the man. Arpad swats at flies.
“So,” says Ron. “Lunch?” (查看原文)
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1 有用 水红 2014-07-21 13:01:18
我只好认为是翻译的问题，好多地方不连贯，看起来怪怪的
0 有用 听说 2013-07-23 14:21:27
没有red market写得好。
3 有用 临时昵称 2013-08-19 11:18:23
书名跟章节题目都很耸动，不过翻译、排版差到难以忍受，还有很多错别字……现在好多科普书都主打冷知识，玩命卖“geek心中有真爱”的噱头，但大多做得都挺烂。
1 有用 生煎馄饨秃子 2014-02-09 17:07:37
作者写得很好玩，很多地方真是黑得漂亮。讲人肉那章把天朝黑得体无完肤。最后一章提到的处理尸体时要把死者家人的愿望要置于死者的愿望之上这一观点真是无比认同，无论一个死者是谁，怎么死的，家属才是最后需要承担住一切的人。
1 有用 蝌蚪往人 2016-04-01 20:47:11
本来要查点尸体腐烂的资料，结果这本书也就写了几段话吧。更多的是很多有趣的内容。我们没法忽视尸体，因为我们都会死亡。作者的笔调充满了幽默感和温情，人类文明的进步让人心头温暖。只是里面提到天外奇谭的中国的内容，对于我们来说未免不寒而栗了。