I don’t see this as disrespectful. You’re certainly entitled to feel otherwise.

After I’m done with the meat, I have a few preferred uses I’d like to see it put to, mostly transplant or educational… but outside of that,  my corpse will just be an inconvenient thing to dispose of. If people want to seek my spirit, I can guarantee it won’t be hanging around wherever the residue winds up.

If it does matter to someone, they have a right to leave appropriate directives. For a pet… well, we are continuously making decisions for our pets; this is another one.

If it matters to you, fine; that’s legitimate. If this particular project bothers you, that’s legitimate too. What isn’t legitimate is to assume that yours is the only valid reaction.

No.

It can’t be the opposite for it is the same. 

Thereby, if the tributary in the mind of the artist is teh act of creating,  not uncommon among creators or artists, then the sale of the creation in no way violates the tenet of respecting what you cherish, thereby can the money be spent on hookers and blow.

It is impossible for you to determine without asking/knowing, thereby it is impossible for you to pass a valid judgement on either the act of creating or the sale of the creation or the use of the benefit from said sale.

If humanity were only done one way you might have a point, but it isn’t, never has been and can vary from individual even within an established cultural norm.

This made me spray cheezburger out of my nose. Thank you.

“Tan me hide when I’m dead, Fred;
Tan me hide when I’m dead.”
So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde
And that’s it, hung on the shed.”

I agree that this pose is unnatural, but I’m willing to accept it as metaphor for that sequence. as well as forced by the quad-copter design.  I’m also willing to call this no more unnatural a pose than the various taxidermy mounts showing animals posed as if they were humans.

It isn’t a cat any more. It has become an anthropomorphic/cartoon cat.  Given that cats often seem to be operating on cartoon physics rather than that which the rest of us use,  and that they often seem to suggest that they can do more than we think when we’re not looking,  that makes sense to me.

I’ve got a set of small felinoid statuettes which are quite realistically skinned in dyed rabbit fur. Is turning rabbit into cat really that much less weird than turning cat into flying-cat?

Americans  (other than folks who work on farms and have been forced to see it) seem to have trouble with the concept that a single species may be a pet, a work animal, a lab animal, or a food/leather/fur animal… and that a single individual may fall into several of these categories at once, or at different points in its existence.  That’s been true since we first domesticated them (or they us).

Cope. If you need help, I’ll lend you a coping saw.

There is nothing “antihuman” about the uncanny valley. It’s just an observation about how we process things.  (And I disagree that this hits that point.)

How much karma are you deducting from yourself for asserting that others react as you do, rather than asking?

I think I like the guy.  I mean, I’d be creeped out if he tried to make Oscar into a helicopter while Oscar was alive, but to turn Oscar’s body into a helicopter?  That’s AWESOME, and deeply respectful of his cat.  What cat WOULDN’T want to be a helicopter?