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Old 06-04-2015, 11:31 AM
 
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Sadly, my fake knees make me a no-go for donation anywhere.

Some people live in states where it's a lot easier to donate, due to skeleton need, cadaver need, "body farm" need, etc. Other states don't have as much need, and I have only seen one that will ship bodies free to their state from the death state.

Be sure to read the fine print of whatever organization you go with. Many retain the right to refuse your donation, even if everything is "set up" in advance. Time elapsed between death and being contacted, their needs change, your body condition changes, too old, etc.
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Old 06-04-2015, 12:50 PM
 
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You're looking for an Executor of your Will if you're deceased and/or a Power of Attorney to handle your matters if you're alive but incapacitated.

For both, start with an attorney. If you have nobody else, they'll probably do both for you, but it won't be free.
My advice as well.
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Old 06-23-2015, 09:02 AM
 
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You can call a funeral home and prepay for your funeral.
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Old 06-26-2015, 04:02 PM
 
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Default ur farm/ranch makes u a target (for ur neighbors)

don't worry about the city folks, who have to come 100 or 500 miles. worry about all the unprepped people within 50 miles of you. (which is nearly every last one of them). Hundreds of people know about your place (or will hear about it, from others, once shtf. All the guys who've tried to sell you stuff, or got lost and drove up your lane, or delivered stuff to you, or visited, or who ever talked to anyone who has done those things. Additionally, you're probably among those dumb enough to use a chainsaw post shtf, or fire un-suppressed shots, or send up "smoke-signals" by having an open fire, have tracks in mud or snow coming off of the "main road', etc. Plenty "think" that dropping a big tree across their lane amounts to stopping people. Desperate, predatory people will just hide their vehicles and walk to your place, and snipe you or set your place ablaze after dark and shoot you as you try to flee, , cause you've TOLD them (with the blockage) that you have something worth taking.
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Old 06-26-2015, 04:08 PM
 
Location: Sugarmill Woods , FL
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O.K. thanks for letting us know.
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Old 06-26-2015, 04:11 PM
 
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Default do not HAVE an open fire, if shtf.

cache some paraffin now, along with a "can candle-stove", with 5-7 wicks, in a #10 can, half full of paraffin. Whenever possible, of course, use a Dakota firepit. Plenty of youtube vids about them. Put shelter over your fire and over your fire wood. Wet wood barely gives off more btus than you'll use up gathering and cutting it. Break dry wood by using your legs, with the end of the tree/limb 'caught between a pair of close-growing trees. WHY is your shelter not so located? :-)


If you'll use wetted vines/roots to bind sticks into a bundle and stand them vertically in your Dakata pit. and put large, flat stones (or water kettles) atop the fire hole, you can then bury the stones, under your sleeping area, or wrap them (or the water, in bottles) and bring them inside of your sleeping gear with you.

You'd danged well BETTER have the right clothing and sleep gear to not NEED a fire to stay warm, folks. Certainly with the right insulation, your shelter should let you sleep comfortablly with no fire inside of it. You don't want the calorie expenditure of gathering wood, moving it to your shelter,, the risk of noise and "sign" and movement, and the smoke/light/CO risk of a fire any more than you can avoid.

Get underground, get Space Blanket reflective material all around you, and you'll need very little in the way of insulation/sleep gear, folks. To hell with all that wood gathering/cutting. If shtf, the next year, (if not sooner) get the hell OUT of cold country for the winter. It's just not worth all the hassle/risk. 90-99% of the population will be dead, and your supplies will be exhausted, so you'll have no reason to not move twice a year, basically.
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Old 06-27-2015, 05:29 PM
 
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You can call a funeral home and prepay for your funeral.

My question is, how do they know when and where to get you?

I guess you could wear a tag,

If dead, please contact Joe's Mortuary
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Old 06-27-2015, 05:31 PM
 
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Well, I plan to leave whatever I have to my cat(s)!

Stevenson Companion Animal Life-Care Center - Texas A&M Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences

Seriously! At least they gave me love!
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Old 06-27-2015, 06:44 PM
 
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Default get 6k college loan, buy a 1-2k old mini-van

and you're set. If you go at it just right, you can access 24k in one year, working 800 hours, If you stick with it and get c's or better in your classes, you can get 13k per year, for 5 years of loans, and 5k per year of grants (which will cover your actual school costs). if you'll say that you'll teach after graduation, and keep up a 3.25 GPA, you can borrow an "extra" 2k per semester, too.

Don't start in the fall, if you can help it, cause it beats you out of access of several k $. YOu can live in an old, $1000 mini- van on your food stamps and sales of plasma. many do so, along with eating at the mission and churches, a bit of craigslist gigs, maybe some day labor. so why stay any one place, "eating it"? You do so only out of ignorance. open your eyes.
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Old 06-27-2015, 06:55 PM
 
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Default u can MARRY 90k, spread over 3 years.

100k, really, untaxed, no ss, but you have to spend 5k-10 to get it started. Simply use your college loan money to go to the Phills and get engaged to a Filipina nurse (no kids or hubby, BEWARE) It will cost you several k to live there while you check her out (several months, after taking a month or more to find her in the first place. DateInAsia site works great, but AVOID dating sites until you GET there. All you'll meet on foreign sites is scammers, guys! who will ask you and ask you for money, non stop and no amount will be enough, either.

check out her LICENSE, her college, her actual knowledge about nursing, her manner/concern with patients, etc. Make certain that she can PASS the California State nursing exam! once in US, an RN can easily start at 50k per year. She can also get the 16k of loans and 6k of grants that I mentioned elsewhere. by working as a nurse, she will be "forgiven" those loans. So yes, she CAN give (ykw) 35k per year (private, nobody knows) to anyone, for the 3 years it will take her to feel secure about divorcing you. Naturally, your property should be owned by a Nevada corporation and not known about by anyone else. :-) Gold coins, if bought privately, with cash, in various places, are good stores of wealth, easily cached in various locations,
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