Stuff on life (macabre)

Posted on Tue Oct 31, 2017

Not the happiest time of the year. USA’s movies culture is slightly transforming this time of the year, in Italy, into an occasion to party; but it is not meant to be this way. USA’s culture can sod itself off.

The italian tradition is to put your corpse in a tomb, although lately cremation is gaining market share. I do not really feel the need for a tomb. Being a science and technology enthusiast, I would like to definitively donate my whole cadaver for the Advancement of Human Science (fuck yeah!); my carcass’ leftovers, if any, can be cremated.

As far as I can search the Net: for years and years there has been a proposal of law, in Italy, to allow this practice in a clear and simple way; but the thing has not been finalised yet. It is still possible to do it, with a complex procedure offered by some institutions, like the University of Bologna. I would like a simpler method.

A cremation urn is as inconvenient as a tomb. It appears that some very ancient populations used to keep the dried heads (the heads only) of their deceased relatives on the floor of their house, maybe the kitchen; that makes it easy to talk to them, no? An urn is for sure less spooky but still a bit of impediment. Getting rid of the whole thing would be better.

Now, I should have some dolcetti lying around…