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Why not plan ahead for your big send off - check the Net for some helpful hints

Made plans for the disposal of your body yet? If not, what about being boiled in Thailand? There is, it seems, a member of the House of Lords who, when he pops his ermine-lined dogs, wants to be reduced to a skeleton and presented to a local Buddhist monastery to be used as an 'object of contemplation'. His search for someone to do the cooking has led his lordship, via various taxidermists, to Thailand where skilled body- boilers can reduce you to bones.

Nursing Standard. 14, 34, 24-24. doi: 10.7748/ns.14.34.24.s37

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