Self-Driving Cars Will Make Organ Shortages Even Worse. Or, with a combination of scanning social media for some good potential local donors and with some minor hacking.....

I for one couldn't care less what happens to my body once I die. Give me to necrophiliacs for all I care. One thing I never understood is cemeteries. Why should any one person take up some valuable real estate for eternity? Once the necrophiliacs are finished with me, I only hope they have the dignity to cremate me, dump me in the trash, sell my body parts for drugs, throw me in the freezer, whatever. And if they bury me, NO HEADSTONE....

Really the human obsessions with the disposition of corporeal remains borders on necrophilia.

Necrotic tissue is useless for transplant.

Yes, I'd expect that from small-minded people who claim to be men of science...

It's for the survivors. It gives them a sense that they did one last thing for the deceased and creates a solemn and permanent marker by which to remember them. Grief doesn't have to make sense.

True, but there have to be limits, or eventually the entire planet will be a graveyard. I mean, there's historical reasons to preserve a grave, but how many of them are now for people whose entire family has died off and they're taking up space?

I'm for what New Orleans does with its above-ground graves; the bodies decompose into ash over the course of a year, then they're put in small urns in vaults. Why not have a system where after X number of years, unless the relatives say otherwise, the body is exhumed, cremated, and placed in a smaller container, perhaps within the marker over the grave? The marker could then be relocated or put nearby and a new body interred.

The entire planet already is a graveyard. Entire cities built on top of the dead.

On of the stories in Kundera's Laughable Loves, is "Let the old dead make way for the young dead." Not as good as The Book of Laughter and Forgetting but worth czeching out.

It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks and become one
with all the people.
Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Ethics for Tomorrow"

You can pry my organs from my cold dead-!

Waaaait...

Shit.