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[–] [email protected] 124 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Look and see if your state has at home Burial services. If they do tell them you want to bury the body at home and you do not want it embalmed. Then buy an absolute fuck ton of Dermestid beetles online. Then, get ready for the horrid smell as they eat the flesh off of your father's rotting corpse over the course of a year or more.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Didn't we have a community for unethical life pro tips? This comment would be a perfect post there.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't see what is unethical about it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It's probably not what his father wanted

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago

Well he should have considered that before dying. Its about personal responsibility.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

We don't know that, and imo that hardly matters now as they are dead and never coming back. They no longer have wants, needs, or feelings.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

put it in the will or enlist it to a trusted family member, those are the two options you have to deal with this problem.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

will is a limited immortal version of the dead person, you can only ask them questions about their death
"put it in the will" is because back in the 70s the will could only read paper slips
will is a shortened form of william, the first man to never die (in 1683)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

to clarify, that's not their birth date

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago
  • unethical death pro tips
[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I guess I'm gonna have to talk to my apartment's landlord first.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago

It's better to ask for forgiveness than for permission.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Imagine a neighbor who’s annoying dog barks in their yard sometimes.

Now imagine a neighbor who’s fathers’s rotting corpse is slowly being eaten by beetles over the course of a year or more.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

If you bury the body first it should take away a good chunk of the smell but you have to bury it in like a mesh cage almost so the bones and stuff can't be slowly moved over time by the beetles.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I'll take the corpse

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

When I read this, I was curious how possible it would be, if there's sufficient supply in the market... I found this vendor page. So, there would probably be enough supply as there are taxidermists who need to clean big game skulls, which require thousands of larva and adults, and the vendor say you should email them if you need more than 10'000. I couldn't learn how much time it would take, but they do say that more = faster, and to communicate with them to fit your project timeline.