Reminds me of David Mitchell's bit on necrophilia:
"Of course no one should be allowed to get jiggy with a body the former inhabitant of which wouldn’t have liked the idea, but there must be plenty of people, like me, whose attitude, once all the useful organs have been harvested, would be “well I’m not using it - help yourself.” So all it would take is an extra box to tick on the organ donor card. “Once we’ve taken out your kidneys, liver and lungs and stuffed the resulting space with sawdust, do you or do you not have any objection to a couple of perverts having a go on you while you’re fresh?”
Obviously, I would want it to be made very very sure I was dead. But then presumably that would be one of the primary requirements of the necrophiliac as well, otherwise the magic goes out of the whole thing. Indeed, if I were to wake out of a deep coma just as the terms of my will were being enthusiastically honoured, I wonder which of us would be the more dismayed? I’d like to think it would be me, but maybe that’s just vanity."
Obviously, I would want it to be made very very sure I was dead. But then presumably that would be one of the primary requirements of the necrophiliac as well, otherwise the magic goes out of the whole thing. Indeed, if I were to wake out of a deep coma just as the terms of my will were being enthusiastically honoured, I wonder which of us would be the more dismayed? I’d like to think it would be me, but maybe that’s just vanity.
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u/BobTheSkrull Oct 15 '18
Reminds me of David Mitchell's bit on necrophilia:
"Of course no one should be allowed to get jiggy with a body the former inhabitant of which wouldn’t have liked the idea, but there must be plenty of people, like me, whose attitude, once all the useful organs have been harvested, would be “well I’m not using it - help yourself.” So all it would take is an extra box to tick on the organ donor card. “Once we’ve taken out your kidneys, liver and lungs and stuffed the resulting space with sawdust, do you or do you not have any objection to a couple of perverts having a go on you while you’re fresh?”
Obviously, I would want it to be made very very sure I was dead. But then presumably that would be one of the primary requirements of the necrophiliac as well, otherwise the magic goes out of the whole thing. Indeed, if I were to wake out of a deep coma just as the terms of my will were being enthusiastically honoured, I wonder which of us would be the more dismayed? I’d like to think it would be me, but maybe that’s just vanity."