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and birds eat your body. . . what bird would you want to eat your body?

This is morbid.

Enforcer Talen wrote:and birds eat your body. . . what bird would you want to eat your body?

Only 3 of your Listed birds eat carrion, the Snowy owl is a Predator that eats fresh kills and the Parakeet is a vegetarian (i think).

What the hell brought this topic to mind?

Addendum : If you think we're going to care what happens to our bodies after we're dead, you haven't quite grasped the concept of being dead.

Once your dead, all the body becomes is meat, bones and fluids - who cares what happens to it at that stage? Certainly not the person who died.

Why would I care?

Maybe you should put down a 'chicken' or a 'turkey' option next time, so that you can turn other people into pseudo-cannibals.

Or maybe not.

Ravens are smart as shit, I'd like one of them to eat me, so that my essence might posses it and use the new form you continue what must be done......

Vulture, it's a classic.

Mass of Ravens, Poetic, plus my dead body would scare th shit out of some little kid for life and warp his little mind

To bad I won't be there to see it

I'd kill them since my body would be so chock full of artificial sweeteners and
preservatives that anything natural long ago died a horrible death

No birds for me, I prefer rats.

Now, I can imagine some people wanting to be eaten by seagulls - one reason would be that the seagulls, with their rather infamous habits would make sure that even after death, they could at least make one person's day absolute complete shit. If they're really lucky, said seagull could be sucked into the exhaust intake of a plane and cause it to crash, permentantly screwing up hundreds of people and doing millions of dollars of worth of damage.

The raven I see a harder time with. As Sea Skimmer mentioned, they're smart birds so someone might want to have the pleasure of becoming brain food rather than worm food. In addition, they're also associated with Halloween, so I suppose you could also hang up your corpse (or rather, have one of your former friends do it) as decoration. This seems kinda stretching it though.

For the snow owl, I guess you have to be a snow owl-phile of some sort, although I don't really think owls go for carrion. Correct me if I'm wrong though. I suppose someone might argue that snow owl babies are cuter than other bird babies at the same age and that they don't want to be eaten by something that looks like a deformed embyro, but I'm probably wrong on this as well. The final reason I could think of is that owls aren't known for their sense of smell (being able to eat skunks), so the owl wouldn't notice if you hadn't bathed in awhile. Of course, you're a corpse by then and corpses aren't known for smelling all the good.

I suppose the vulture would appeal to the conservative, or people that simply like large groups. The vultures hovering overhead on a baked desert plain is a classic image that is hard to go wrong. In addition, depending on the species of vulture, you could be saving an endangered species, even after death. A good, solid choice if lacking in imagination.

In contrast, being eaten by a Parakeet seems like an avant-garde thing. After all, who would expect the sweet little pet is how you took care of dear 'ol granddad? Or for that matter, how on earth would someone go about cleaning the cages? Most of the material eaten in food comes back out as waste. In any case, I suppose it would be fun for people that want to scare little kids away from small singing birds forever. Or, given on the type of parakeet, you would get the most colorful of the selections, so choosing parakeet as your 'final answer' would allow you to show YOUR many colors for the final time.

I would prefer being dragged out and left for the ... Coyotes.

Seagulls!!

If I had to choose, the raven. I have many reasons for this, most personal.

I'd like a hummingbird to eat mine. It should be done in a year or two.

Out of all of the options listed above, I'd go with the raven, though. I don't want to be embarrased by having some non-intimidating bird eating my dead body.

Vulture: anybody remember the TREE OF WOE

This was inspired by my law class. I was half listening, and the teacher finished by saying, and your body is eaten by seagulls. Struck my genius, I asked the chick next to me this survey. She started looking at me weird though. Cant think a reason on earth why.

I chose raven. Those things are soo cool.

and you only *think* parakeets are vegetarians. havent you seen those signs of missing pets??

Vulture of course. Classic death image.
"Polly want some carrion? Pretty bird, pretty bird!"

Well a parakeet, of course

Out of the choices, a raven, but I'd orefer a crow. They don't waste as much time yapping as ravens do.

Pterydactol (sp?) the biggest most bad ass bird (ITS A BIRD!!! ) of all.

I'd rather not have my body eaten by birds, you see I intend to live fast, die young, and leave a flesh eating corpse.

anarchistbunny wrote:I'd rather not have my body eaten by birds, you see I intend to live fast, die young, and leave a flesh eating corpse.

Granted, but that still isn't an option.

Why aren't more people choosing parkeets? They'd be so cute nibbling on flesh.

Ravens. They used to scare the hell out of me.