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	<title>Comments on: MJ&#039;s funeral cost a&#160;mil</title>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2009/11/10/mjs-funeral-cost-a-m.html#comment-633600</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just rent a wood chipper and point me at a garden.</description>
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		<title>By: Xopher</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2009/11/10/mjs-funeral-cost-a-m.html#comment-633356</link>
		<dc:creator>Xopher</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m an organ donor.  I understand that pretty much leaves no option but cremation.  So much as I&#039;d love my long bones to be made into flutes and given to selected* friends as &lt;em&gt;mementos mori,&lt;/em&gt; potentially saving a life** is more important to me.

IWood: To be clearer than Antinous seems willing to be, Teresa is no longer Community Manager here.  She still posts from time to time, but has no formal role at BB.
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*Selected, in this case, for their ability to appreciate a bone flute made from a friend&#039;s bone without freaking out. Select++ if they can actually play a block flute.
**It&#039;s hard to imagine any of my organs being transplantable, but it&#039;s possible.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m an organ donor.  I understand that pretty much leaves no option but cremation.  So much as I&#8217;d love my long bones to be made into flutes and given to selected* friends as <em>mementos mori,</em> potentially saving a life** is more important to me.</p>
<p>IWood: To be clearer than Antinous seems willing to be, Teresa is no longer Community Manager here.  She still posts from time to time, but has no formal role at BB.<br />
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*Selected, in this case, for their ability to appreciate a bone flute made from a friend&#8217;s bone without freaking out. Select++ if they can actually play a block flute.<br />
**It&#8217;s hard to imagine any of my organs being transplantable, but it&#8217;s possible.</p>
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		<title>By: Little John</title>
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		<dc:creator>Little John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;I&#039;m an organ donor. I understand that pretty much leaves no option but cremation.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Huh? How d&#039;ya figure?
&lt;blockquote&gt;To be clearer than Antinous seems willing to be, Teresa is no longer Community Manager here.&lt;/blockquote&gt;This was slightly easier to see before the (new) masthead was taken back off the individual post pages.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m an organ donor. I understand that pretty much leaves no option but cremation.</p></blockquote>
<p>Huh? How d&#8217;ya figure?</p>
<blockquote><p>To be clearer than Antinous seems willing to be, Teresa is no longer Community Manager here.</p></blockquote>
<p>This was slightly easier to see before the (new) masthead was taken back off the individual post pages.</p>
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		<title>By: grimc</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2009/11/10/mjs-funeral-cost-a-m.html#comment-633380</link>
		<dc:creator>grimc</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wonder if that number includes what LA had to cough up for services. Probably not.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wonder if that number includes what LA had to cough up for services. Probably not.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2009/11/10/mjs-funeral-cost-a-m.html#comment-633390</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not if you&#039;re the one being buried. In that case, it should make you pissed that they&#039;re rushing it.

Oooh Poe. Buried alive.
--adunaphel13</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not if you&#8217;re the one being buried. In that case, it should make you pissed that they&#8217;re rushing it.</p>
<p>Oooh Poe. Buried alive.<br />
&#8211;adunaphel13</p>
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		<title>By: cstatman</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2009/11/10/mjs-funeral-cost-a-m.html#comment-633423</link>
		<dc:creator>cstatman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>YES YES YES    YES Xeni,   YES

please!  spend the money on kids.  kids he did not try to f***.    On kids who are hungry.

a mil on a funeral?    what an a55hole</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>YES YES YES    YES Xeni,   YES</p>
<p>please!  spend the money on kids.  kids he did not try to f***.    On kids who are hungry.</p>
<p>a mil on a funeral?    what an a55hole</p>
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		<title>By: LB</title>
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		<dc:creator>LB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Except he&#039;s dead and isn&#039;t capable of directing his funeral arrangements from beyond the grave...

(They weren&#039;t in his will.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Except he&#8217;s dead and isn&#8217;t capable of directing his funeral arrangements from beyond the grave&#8230;</p>
<p>(They weren&#8217;t in his will.)</p>
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		<title>By: Antinous / Moderator</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2009/11/10/mjs-funeral-cost-a-m.html#comment-633685</link>
		<dc:creator>Antinous / Moderator</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Anyone feel free to correct me if I&#039;m wrong.&lt;/i&gt;

I once had a guy walk up to my desk and hand me two little specimen containers, each containing an eyeball on a gauze pad.  They were labeled &quot;13 year-old girl, bicycle accident.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Anyone feel free to correct me if I&#8217;m wrong.</i></p>
<p>I once had a guy walk up to my desk and hand me two little specimen containers, each containing an eyeball on a gauze pad.  They were labeled &#8220;13 year-old girl, bicycle accident.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Talia</title>
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		<dc:creator>Talia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;d bet good money he&#039;d prefer the cash to go towards helping kids too. 

Despite all the slander, he&#039;s never struck me as the sort to be egomaniacal. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;d bet good money he&#8217;d prefer the cash to go towards helping kids too. </p>
<p>Despite all the slander, he&#8217;s never struck me as the sort to be egomaniacal. </p>
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		<title>By: apoxia</title>
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		<dc:creator>apoxia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Chances are you will die old and no-one will want your organs. I think you pretty much have to be on life-support in a hospital in order for your organs to be harvested. If you die in a car wreck I&#039;m guessing they can&#039;t use anything. Anyone feel free to correct me if I&#039;m wrong.

Thanks for those links Antinous. I love that grisly stuff.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chances are you will die old and no-one will want your organs. I think you pretty much have to be on life-support in a hospital in order for your organs to be harvested. If you die in a car wreck I&#8217;m guessing they can&#8217;t use anything. Anyone feel free to correct me if I&#8217;m wrong.</p>
<p>Thanks for those links Antinous. I love that grisly stuff.</p>
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		<title>By: evilpeacock</title>
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		<dc:creator>evilpeacock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When my uncle died of a second stroke and wasn&#039;t found for at least 45 minutes the coroner was still very excited because he was in his mid-fifties and his bone marrow was organ donor gold. So not everything has to be &quot;fresh&quot;.

It was small consolation but I know we all were happy that something good would come of his passing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When my uncle died of a second stroke and wasn&#8217;t found for at least 45 minutes the coroner was still very excited because he was in his mid-fifties and his bone marrow was organ donor gold. So not everything has to be &#8220;fresh&#8221;.</p>
<p>It was small consolation but I know we all were happy that something good would come of his passing.</p>
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		<title>By: mikerbaker</title>
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		<dc:creator>mikerbaker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Now you&#039;re just baiting the anti-pieists.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now you&#8217;re just baiting the anti-pieists.</p>
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		<title>By: Brainspore</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brainspore</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Clarification, please- use the rest of the &lt;em&gt;money&lt;/em&gt; for pie or make pies from the edible portion of your corpse a-la &quot;Sweeny Todd?&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Clarification, please- use the rest of the <em>money</em> for pie or make pies from the edible portion of your corpse a-la &#8220;Sweeny Todd?&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Antinous / Moderator</title>
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		<dc:creator>Antinous / Moderator</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ll take &lt;a href=&quot;http://bbs.gy.soufun.com/lygs~-1~517/30276306_30276306.htm&quot;&gt;sky burial&lt;/a&gt;. At least somebody gets a meal out of me. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;b&gt;WARNING:&lt;/b&gt; Do not, DO NOT, &lt;b&gt;DO NOT&lt;/b&gt; click either link if you are faint of stomach!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll take <a href="http://bbs.gy.soufun.com/lygs~-1~517/30276306_30276306.htm">sky burial</a>. At least somebody gets a meal out of me. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial">Wikipedia article</a></p>
<p><b>WARNING:</b> Do not, DO NOT, <b>DO NOT</b> click either link if you are faint of stomach!</p>
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		<title>By: IWood</title>
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		<dc:creator>IWood</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m for any burial ritual that involves sledgehammers.</description>
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		<title>By: InsertFingerHere</title>
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		<dc:creator>InsertFingerHere</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Being aroused at a funeral makes me feel so dirty.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Being aroused at a funeral makes me feel so dirty.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m pretty sure traffic accident *are* the big source of donor organs.  Motorcycle (&quot;donorcycle&quot;) accidents notoriously, but anything where brain injury is the cause of death.  Obviously, this isn&#039;t all fatal traffic accidents, and the severely brain-injured do end up on life support; you&#039;re sort of right.  </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure traffic accident *are* the big source of donor organs.  Motorcycle (&#8220;donorcycle&#8221;) accidents notoriously, but anything where brain injury is the cause of death.  Obviously, this isn&#8217;t all fatal traffic accidents, and the severely brain-injured do end up on life support; you&#8217;re sort of right.  </p>
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		<title>By: dculberson</title>
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		<dc:creator>dculberson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

But seriously, that was really interesting.  I had no idea.  I like the idea of having to coax the fat vultures to eat.  Hmph.  Ingrates!  I&#039;m tasty, I swear!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!</p>
<p>But seriously, that was really interesting.  I had no idea.  I like the idea of having to coax the fat vultures to eat.  Hmph.  Ingrates!  I&#8217;m tasty, I swear!</p>
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		<title>By: IWood</title>
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		<dc:creator>IWood</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>(Hey Antinous--totally off topic, but where&#039;s Teresa these days? No comment on your mad mod skilz intended, just got curious when I realized I hadn&#039;t seen her in quite awhile and noticed she&#039;s not on the masthead.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(Hey Antinous&#8211;totally off topic, but where&#8217;s Teresa these days? No comment on your mad mod skilz intended, just got curious when I realized I hadn&#8217;t seen her in quite awhile and noticed she&#8217;s not on the masthead.)</p>
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		<title>By: Antinous / Moderator</title>
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		<dc:creator>Antinous / Moderator</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>She&#039;s been gone for ~ seven months.  You can find her over at Making Light.</description>
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