Writer's Block: R.I.P

[browngirl]

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This reminds me to drop one of my local medical schools a line. I would really like for medical students to get to dissect my body after I'm dead (since I don't think my organs would be that useful, considering my metabolic disorder, but I am registered as an organ donor in case someone more qualified thinks otherwise).

I care more about my funeral, honestly. I hope enough people want to say goodbye to me that I have one, and that more people are pensive than are pleased to hear I've died. And I hope I inspire a warm convival wake, and that if I get to see my death coming I have the presence of mind to do something like lay in some fruitcake to be shared at said wake. But we'll have to see.

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[caitri.livejournal.com]

*tacklecling* I dislike it when my friends contemplate death and after. That is all. *clingy cuddles*

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*hugs you a lot* Well, like taxes, it happens.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

As I understand it, some med schools are glad of cadavers and some are oversupplied. All the more reason to get in touch now.

And I hope you'll be making the world a sweeter, warmer place for quite a few decades to come. :)

*love*

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*blushes and hugs you* Thank you. :)

[boosette.livejournal.com]

(since I don't think my organs would be that useful, considering my metabolic disorder, but I am registered as an organ donor in case someone more qualified thinks otherwise).

Your corneas would probably be useful, at the very least, and probably also your skin if we're still using human grafts for burn victims at such time as you kick it.

Also the idea of laying in fruitcake against the eventuality of death is very, very you and makes me smile. Not the dying part, mind, but the you part.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

There is that -- my skin has very little sun damage, between the built in sunscreen and my indoor habits. And I have lots of it! *laugh*

*blushes at you* If I see my death coming, after a bout or twenty of freaking out, I think I'll want to do something positive to prepare, if I can.

[bercilakslady.livejournal.com]

I'd suggest just not dying, and then we don't have to deal with such things. I know that's not actually an option, but if we're wishing..

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*hugs you* I wish I could manage that. There are people who likely will, but I doubt I'm one of them.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

the University of Toronto Med School Neurology Department has specifically asked for my brain, so it is all theirs.

Which means I can *prove* that I am wanted for my mind.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Really! If you're willing to say, how did that come about?

[thespian.livejournal.com]

I have epilepsy, and a few years ago they did a number of tests (cat scans, MRIs, etc). In the course of that, they discovered that I have a rarish congenital abnormality; my left brain hemisphere is visibly smaller than my right (everyone has some difference; but the weights are usually within a few grams). They believe that (in addition to the seizures, which always originate in my right hand), this may also explain my extreme left-dominance, and some issues I have with logic puzzles (if a word problem has *any* ambiguity, I cannot answer it. When I was younger I used to answer problems three and four times during tests, with notes explaining where the issues lay). By nature of the brain damage, connections within my brain hemispheres are different; some shorter, some longer, and some connections are simply different than anyone else's.

This they can see from the outside, and they did about a year of external tests on me to figure out how my mind works as a mind, but they want to back the information up with data about the physical brain, and see how this all stacks up. So they asked if I would be willing to give them my brain when I die.

So I have a will, and pretty much in completion it says wayward_va is to go through my property, remove anything that might cause distress to my mother, and he gets all my art, my mother gets everything else to dispose of as she wishes, but she is to take a selection of books I have signed for my nephew by Neil Gaiman, Joss Whedon, etc., and give them to him at appropriate ages, and finally, there are 3 pages of medical instructions for getting my brain to the UofT.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for your kindness is satisfying my curiosity. :)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*grins at you* You truly are. And for your brain!