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What would you want to do (have done) with a severed limb?

Asked by rebbel (35549points) August 7th, 2010

Suppose, for what ever reason, that you get the unfortunate news that doctors have to take away one of your limbs (or any other body part for that matter).
What would you want done with it?
Or do with it yourself?
I once read a gripping story about a WW I soldier who had died during that war and was buried in, i think, Belgium.
Without one of his legs (the leg being the cause of him dying).
Years later, somewhere in the beginning of 2000, his family buried the leg with his remains.
When i thought about that, it made sense to me: i also would like to give it some sort of burial, since it is (was) a part of me.
I wouldn’t feel ‘whole’ again once i knew the limb was getting rid off in lets say, a hospital human remains bin.
What are your thoughts on this subject?

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