罗琦的奇异科学系列：如果尸体会说话

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• You can't specify what happens to you when you donate your remains to science, only what doesn't happen. The dead people whose parts Glover and Corcoran have plastinated over the years checked a box on their University of Michigan donor form indicating that they did not object to "permanent preservation", but they didn't request it specifically. Here’s the other thing I think about. It makes little sense to try to control what happens to your remains when you are no longer around to reap the joys or benefits of that control. People who make elaborate requests concerning disposition of their bodies are probably people who have trouble with the concept of not existing. Leaving a note requesting that your family and friends travel to the Ganges or ship your body to a plastination lab in Mich... (查看原文)

  Lucia 1赞 2013-10-12 15:36:17

• There is a passage in the Buddhist Sutra on Mindfulness called the Nine Cemetery Contemplations. Apprentice monks are instructed to meditate on a series of decomposing bodies in the charnel ground, starting with a body “swollen and blue and festering,” processing to one “being eaten by… different kinds of worms,” and moving on to a skeleton, “without flesh and blood, held together by the tendons.” The monks were told to keep meditating until they were calm and a smile appeared on their faces. I described this to Arpad and Ron, explaining that the idea is to come to peace with the transient nature of our bodily existence, to overcome the revulsion and fear. Or something. We all stare at the man. Arpad swats at flies. “So,” says Ron. “Lunch?” (查看原文)

  Lucia 1赞 2013-10-12 15:47:32

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