My family is notoriously poor, but they're still generous and try to make attempts to make the holidays easy on the kids of the family. I can always get behind that, but I'm selfish when it comes to people putting money in toward me. Up until a few years ago I would ask my father for money once in a blue moon if I was having trouble paying rent, but with my new job I've been fine enough on my own. I'm still too poor to make the holidays fun for people, so instead I'm leaving a going away present. They won't need to worry about a funeral or the cost of burying me. In addition to this, I'm donating my body to a good cause.
I've officially signed off on the form confirming that upon my death, my body goes to the Oregon Health Body Donation program. So they'll get their chance to experiment, and when they're done after a year I get cremated and interred at a shared plot. My family won't need to go bankrupt to pay for anything.
This was a concern that hit me the other night when I remembered how I had to sell my gaming systems to pay for our dogs funeral. I couldn't imagine my father having to sell his car or his liver to do it, so I wanted to do one nice thing before I left. Plus there's a little bit of sick pleasure on my end, knowing I took the opportunity to have a real funeral from my family. I won't lie there's an element of spite here. But there's more good coming out of this than bad so it works out.
I've officially signed off on the form confirming that upon my death, my body goes to the Oregon Health Body Donation program. So they'll get their chance to experiment, and when they're done after a year I get cremated and interred at a shared plot. My family won't need to go bankrupt to pay for anything.
This was a concern that hit me the other night when I remembered how I had to sell my gaming systems to pay for our dogs funeral. I couldn't imagine my father having to sell his car or his liver to do it, so I wanted to do one nice thing before I left. Plus there's a little bit of sick pleasure on my end, knowing I took the opportunity to have a real funeral from my family. I won't lie there's an element of spite here. But there's more good coming out of this than bad so it works out.
