Kevin comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

97 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2010 11:23PM

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Comment author: ata 15 March 2010 10:04:57PM *  10 points [-]

I remember once reading Richard Stallman saying that when he dies, if his body cannot be used for medical research, he would want it to be used for cannibalism or necrophilia.

A rather weird thing to say, but on reflection, not quite as weird as people's usual thoughts on death — "I want my body to be put into the ground so it can decompose" or "I want my body to be burned so it can be of no use to anybody" — right?

Comment author: Kevin 15 March 2010 10:17:39PM *  1 point [-]

I tried searching to find a citation for this and the most obvious keywords just take me here. 50 karma to anyone who has enough Google-fu to find me a citation.

Comment author: ata 15 March 2010 10:26:44PM 3 points [-]

I was thinking of the fourth post on this page. Looks like I misremembered, he didn't mention cannibalism, but given the rest of that post, I'd bet money that he'd be fine with it (perhaps as a third choice).

Comment author: Jack 15 March 2010 10:25:13PM 1 point [-]

Here.

Command-F "corpse".

Comment author: thomblake 15 March 2010 11:01:38PM 3 points [-]

Command-F "corpse".

In context and reading quickly, I thought you were suggesting a macro in Emacs.