| | For some reason this is really bothering me. I don't think the guy should be in that casket and buried without that brain. We tend to sense our existence in our brains and it kind of feels like that is where we are but maybe it's just because the eyes are up there.
I have read that the ancient Egyptians believed that the center of their existence was in the heart, probably because it moves. I'm not so sure about the seat of existence but I feel like I'm all jammed up inside my head and that is where I live. My body is just attached at the bottom and it moves me around.
Perhaps I'm just sentimental but I would feel very uncomfortable if someone I loved was buried without their brain.
I know that for autopsy reasons and probably because he was the artistic talent that he was, his brain is greatly desired for research purposes. I know it is also being used to help with the determination of the cause of death investigation.
I also know that when someone dies, supposidly the body is just a shell that rots away and the person is gone forever but for some reason it just bugs me that people get taken apart and sometimes their brain is not buried with them.
Some religions do not believe in desecrating the body after death. Jews are not embalmed and must be buried within 24 hours, I think for religious reasons but I'm thinking that not embalming someone would be reason for a swifter burial as well for sanitary reasons.
There are religions that believe the body will come back to life and imagine coming to life without a brain! After an autopsy all your organs and stuff are generally just sewn up inside your big empty cavity anyway, but it's all there, except the biopsy bits that go to pathology and stuff that gets burned. Your blood goes down a drain.
How would you feel about being buried without a brain, or since I guess you wouldn't be feeling anything at all at that point, hopefully (!) but how would you feel about yourself or your loved one being buried without the brain?
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| | Posted 7/9/2009 8:13 AM - 38 Views - 18 eProps - 9 comments
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