Who really owns you?

Everyone lives their lives thinking they are in control, they have the right to do this and that, privacy etc. but when you die it turns into something else. All those rights go away. The government grabs your body, whisks it off to be embalmed, autopsied, documented and stored in a freezer somewhere.
Are they checking for alien incursion? They need to validate you are human and not a vampire, or maybe you have two hearts or 3 lungs or something.
Can you not wear a bracelet that says "no embalming" or something? Can't you be burned with your own blood?
Why does some random guy get to cut you open, dig out your kidneys and liver and then your heart and examine it?
Isn't that against some religious passage?
"Though shalt not chop open random corpses to check for two hearts, nor shalt they replace blood with some other horrible thing. Thine corps shalt be preserved until it turns to dust in some fashion ort another."

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Thevy29 · 41-45, M

The Government only takes care of your body if you didn't have plans for your burial in place.
They don't embalm you if you opted for cremation.
They autopsy you to make sure there was no foul play in your death.
They will take care of your body in accordance to your religious values only if those values are known.

Fertilization · 36-40, F

Not every dead body goes through autopsy.

ninalanyon · 70-79, T

@Fertilization That's true but it's surprising common; at least it was a surprise to me when I looked it just now. In Norway and the US 8% of bodies are autopsied, in the UK it's almost 16% (nearly one in six!).

I don't know how reliable the data is, it says that the rate in Russia is 70%.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/autopsy-rate

Fertilization · 36-40, F

@ninalanyon Very strange 😔

Adrift · 61-69, F

Welp what I figured out is the government owns you the day you take your first breath.
As far as autopsies go, unless your family requests it or there could be questionable circumstances involved in a death, you can have a planned directive in place saying what it is you want.

PoohSmasher

@Adrift I suspect you will be collected, autopsied and stored before anyone checks lawyers for any directives.

Adrift · 61-69, F

@PoohSmasher I personally wont care because you cant really hurt something that is already dead.
The government usually doesn't want to bother with anything that eats and poops, so they would probably feel the same about something that rots and leaks fluids.

FreddieUK · 70-79, M

No human authority ‘owns’ me, legally or otherwise.

PoohSmasher

@FreddieUK Believe what you want. They will still pull out your liver and make a judgment about it.

Charity · 70-79

They don't do autopsies on everybody just those that die suspiciously or through some type of foul play. Those who die of natural causes no autopsy is done.

The government whether elected, inherited or forced is in control of much of everything and everyone's life. One has to live by the rules of the government, and being paid to do it.

PoohSmasher

@Charity Yes exactly, you are owned, even when you are dead.

0uijaFinger

My cat.

Zonuss · 46-50, M

Nobody.

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