Nah I don't mind, especiallly if it can be programmed to yell "VIKING BURIAL" as soon as I die (or am about to die), will help others to also locate me in case I am away
not necessarily, unless someone specifically is fed on carcasses of other dead. Basically, if any body with prions is present in open environment, and only small bugs/bacteria/fungii are doing their job, they will simply decay everything, since they don't have many complex protiens in them, they don't mind eating prions. And once they die, they basically just become raw nutrients (amino acids) and then to even simpler compounds (most amino acids are not that stable outside life, would get oxidised). If we consider bigger animals decomposing, for example hyenas and vultures or crows, as long as they are not then fed upon by something that we eat (lets say cattle, or we don't directly eat them) then it is ok. If i am not wrong, some cultures basically just through theri bodies in some large pits for these animals only.
What if you die in a building with not enough decay-agents present, your carcass would be there for quite some long time. And what if you die in hospital.
most of these prices are wrong, if you live in a third world country, you may not even get a tenth of it (for kidney, you may get around $250 (yes, 0 amount is correct) to $5000 (the highest that i have ever heard, and this in particular is a settlement amount paid by some foreigner as a settlement as aftermath to not let it come in news)). And why do I know this, I live where there is illegel organ trafficing, and sometimes poor and destitute are either operated and get these organs stolen from them unknowingly (specifically kidney, because you can technically survive on one) or sometimes they themselves selll them, if they are in really hard situations. And Once in a while, some operation gets shut down and it is in the news
lungs specifically are expensive, because there almost impossibly hard to get out. Brain, Lungs and heart would be hardest to graft organs, mostly because there is no eay way to store it. Brain without blood pumping starts to decay in literal minutes, befor becoming a mass mush. Heart in cryogenic state can be stored for about 1-2 days. Lungs are hard (I don't even know any place where they do lung transplant, I am guessing it happens, but I don't know of it) but basically imagine just as frail as brain (maybe not as frail, but pretty close). basically, if no blood reaches, and there is no inert air pressure maintained, alveoli will start degenerating, and without alveoli, lungs are useless. These are logistical issues - but that is the limiting casee here. Most first world countries will not have enough operations running to get these organs, and if they get them from some third world country, they have a huge race against time.
Hence, there is almost no black market for brains/lungs or conversely if there is one - from supply and demand, the prices shoot sky
don't upload directly to lemmy, use some other image hosting. to cut on costs, lemmy servers can either have (adjustable) file size limits, or (optionally) compress the image
I did try, but they are not that, lets just say helpful, because I am switching my specialisation, and they say what i currently seeking is more of a fad (it is not, but the are relatively old school folks)
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