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> If you’re dead, what do you care what happens to your remains? Not speaking for this case in particular, but regarding the general question, maybe it's somet
by mehrdadn 7y ago
> If you’re dead, what do you care what happens to your remains?
Not speaking for this case in particular, but regarding the general question, maybe it's something you don't want your loved ones to have to think about/go through?
- mirimir 7y agoCremation would have made little difference in this case. They would still have identified his relatives, and obtained DNA from them. It would have just prevented confirmation.
- scarface74 7y agoWell. I’ve told my wife to get rid of my body as cheaply as possible if I die first. I don’t care what happens to my body. I also don’t really like the idea of traditional funerals. Even though it’s too much to ask, I would much rather for people to have a cookout or something more joyous to celebrate my life than a funeral with everyone in suits.
- conanbatt 7y agoNo organ donation?
- scarface74 7y agoSure. I signed up for organ donation.
- travmatt 7y agoNot positing this as your position, but we can’t base the rightness of such an action in a vacuum that only considers the interests of one party and ignore the interests of everyone else. In weighing the relative rights of individuals and society, the relative rights of the deceased’s relatives are less important than the victims relatives in knowing the truth about their loss, and societies interests in identifying murderers, whether alive or dead.