if you died

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-03-03 03:33pm

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

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-03-03 03:36pm

This is morbid.

Post by **Rob Wilson** » 2003-03-03 03:40pm

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.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-03-03 03:43pm

Why would I care?

Cyborg Stan · Post by **Cyborg Stan** » 2003-03-03 03:46pm

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.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-03-03 03:48pm

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......

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2003-03-03 03:51pm

Vulture, it's a classic.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2003-03-03 03:51pm

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

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-03-03 03:55pm

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

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2003-03-03 03:56pm

No birds for me, I prefer rats.

Cyborg Stan · Post by **Cyborg Stan** » 2003-03-03 04:02pm

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.

Post by **Coyote** » 2003-03-03 04:36pm

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

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-03-03 04:46pm

Seagulls!!

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-03-03 04:54pm

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

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-03-03 04:57pm

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.

theski · Post by **theski** » 2003-03-03 05:40pm

Vulture: anybody remember the TREE OF WOE

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-03-03 08:46pm

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??

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-03-03 08:51pm

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

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2003-03-03 08:53pm

Well a parakeet, of course

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-03-03 08:53pm

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

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-03-03 08:55pm

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

) of all.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-03-03 09:02pm

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.

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2003-03-03 09:07pm

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.

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2003-03-03 10:06pm

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

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » 2003-03-03 10:06pm

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

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