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Old 03-08-2016, 02:04 PM
 
Location: Huntsville, AL
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Old 03-08-2016, 02:08 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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if you were a heavy smoker, you could be cremated and put in a large ashtray-- you'd feel right at home.
There's a story in one of David Sedaris' books where he talks about scattering his cat's ashes on the carpet and vacuuming them up, since she was an indoor cat.
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Old 03-08-2016, 09:20 PM
 
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Look at an apple. Do you have any idea how many atoms are in that apple? Somewhere in the septillions (there's a lot of zeroes in that one). Within that apple are carbon and hydrogen and oxygen atoms, among others, that have passed through the bodies of almost everyone on Earth who have ever lived (the only exceptions might be the very recently born).

Take a bite of anything - there's a little bit of everyone in there. George Washington. Adolf Hitler. William Shakespeare. Ted Bundy. Charlemagne. Jimi Hendrix. Everyone.

PS - I hope you enjoy whatever you're eating right now...
Wow, I never thought of that, but once read, can never be unread.
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Old 03-08-2016, 09:21 PM
 
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Well, we never stopped at Gen. Braddock's grave, just drove past it.
I would, too
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Old 03-08-2016, 09:24 PM
 
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Do what? You are worried about a biodegradable covering after just burning enough hydrocarbons to power a small country for a year to put your corpse in space?
Maybe not for me since I will probably go before they perfect the technique, but maybe 100 years from now they will find a way to do it in a more green way without burning all those hydrocarbons.
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Old 03-09-2016, 06:58 AM
 
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I would, too
Actually, I did stop there once. A few times a year, there's a large flea market held on a nearby field. My wife and I went to it once, and we walked over and paid our respects to the General, but it was in the spring, so there were no apples available.
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Old 03-09-2016, 08:26 AM
 
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I had never heard of General Braddock before this. Now I want to go visit his grave and have an apple.
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Old 03-09-2016, 11:42 AM
 
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Actually seems like a decent idea to me.
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Old 03-09-2016, 10:20 PM
 
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Actually, I did stop there once. A few times a year, there's a large flea market held on a nearby field. My wife and I went to it once, and we walked over and paid our respects to the General, but it was in the spring, so there were no apples available.
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I had never heard of General Braddock before this. Now I want to go visit his grave and have an apple.
Braddock Apples! I have to google General Braddock. I have never heard of him before his appearance in this thread.
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Old 03-09-2016, 10:48 PM
 
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Excellent idea. Traditional methods of disposing of dead bodies are so bad for the environment and a waste. Put our bodies to good use when we are done with them.
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