When you've popped your clogs................

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    Scrungee are you trying to tell your beloved something?lol
     
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      DADDY.xxxxxxxxxxlol lol
       
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        I am already making progress in preserving my body for medical science - by the time I pop my clogs, my liver should be fairly well pickled :biggrin:
         
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          That's a fair point. Surely nobody can preserve their body for medical science. Surely by the time you stop using it yourself, it's pretty much knackered, the exact opposite of preserved.
           
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            Ah, but in the name of science, surely that remains to be proven?
             
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              You only think that because you keep looking in the mirror, clueless:dunno::heehee:
               
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                I don't need a mirror.

                It occurs to me that mother nature might have been kind in making older people gradually lose their hearing. It means I might one day once again be able to move without hearing any joints click.
                 
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                  I plan to be ashes.

                  However I wouldn't mind a little poster. Pulvis et Nihil.

                  :)
                   
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                  As you have put your first sentence in there I think it would be better represented by Pulvis Cinis et Nihil. :dbgrtmb: :snork:
                   
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                  'Help! Let me out - I haven't finished!!' Anyone on here read Edgar Allan Poe's story about catalepsy? I'm going to be buried with a saw, a screwdriver and a spade.......:yes:
                   
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                    @noisette47 Why not have what they used to have - a bell fixed to the coffin. You could have a modern version that is wired to a bell on top of the gravestone and a few packs of spare batteries put in with you. Or, how about a mobile phone and spare batteries.
                     
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                      Nope, it was a direct quote from an Edgar Wallace story, Sanders of the River. Correction not valid here :)
                       
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                        Sorry, I was taking it literally as you said 'I plan to be ashes'. :noidea: :love30:

                        Pulvis means dust and Nihil means nothing. Whereas the full saying means 'dust, ashes and nothing' with Cinis meaning ashes :)

                        Sanders of the River - great books and film. Here Bosambo sings this song to the river and 'Sandy' (Sanders).

                        Edgar Wallace :dbgrtmb:

                         
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                          You'll need an oxygen supply and a co2 scrubber too.

                          This was covered in a TV programme I saw. It might have been mythbusters, it might not. I can't remember but it was an entertainment/documentary type programme.

                          In a coffin, even if you fully relax and meditate, you'll have less than an hour before you suffocate. At full on panic level of exertion, 3 minutes max I think they estimated.
                           
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