• HeHoXa@lemmy.zip
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    21 hours ago

    I cannot fucking believe I’m going to participate here…

    … but when you’re talking to someone about organ donation, you’d typically say something like “You can’t take them with you. That isn’t you anymore. You’re dead. It’s just meat now.”

    … and that’s as much as I’m going to say because gross

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      21 hours ago

      But this is actually why we decide whether or not we participate in postmortem organ donation while we’re alive - we make the conscious decision ahead of time. Which is still then consistent with the consent argument

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        20 hours ago

        So then if I consent to someone fucking my corpse after I’m gone, it becomes morally OK for them to do it.

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          14 hours ago

          Well yea I guess if I go tell shawty she can ride my hog after I get the death erection and she does it I can’t really be mad at her can I

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          18 hours ago

          With regard to the corpse, maybe.

          There’s possibly a virtue ethics argument against the person doing it? Like, it’s a little weird that they want to, right?

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            18 hours ago

            Weird from a cultural perspective where any sort of non-medical interference with a corpse is frowned upon, so we’re trained from a very young age to find any of that stuff icky/morbid. Other cultures may not have that same aversion.

            Kinda in the same vein as we in North America have a very conservative opinion on being naked in public where other cultures couldn’t care less.

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              18 hours ago

              I’m already a moral relativist.

              What I’m asking is if a person who wants to and does have sex with corpses, knowing that this is socially profane and must be kept secret, is this a trustable person?

              Also, respect for the dead often involves rituals that are non-medical. I think disease obviously played a part in how these rituals were formed, but I don’t think that disease is the primary reason people care.