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		<title>The nephews visit is AWESOME!!!!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brandon, Ryan and Aaron came to visit and we are having an AWESOME time!!!! The nephews visit is AWESOME!!!! is a post from: BUSHBAKER dot com<p><a href="http://bushbaker.com/2010/02/14/the-nephews-visit-is-awesome/">The nephews visit is AWESOME!!!!</a> is a post from: <a href="http://bushbaker.com">BUSHBAKER dot com</a></p>
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		<title>Protected: Anatomy Of A 10 Week Old Father</title>
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		<title>What to do with those you love (after they are dead)…</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 19:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this article by Norma Love at the AP on the web today concerning a new alternative of dealing with bodies of our loved ones. The following description was offered up in the article: “The process is called alkaline hydrolysis and was developed in this country 16 years ago to get rid of animal [...]<p><a href="http://bushbaker.com/2008/05/11/what-to-do-with-those-you-love-after-they-are-dead%e2%80%a6/">What to do with those you love (after they are dead)…</a> is a post from: <a href="http://bushbaker.com">BUSHBAKER dot com</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: #000000;">I found this <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/05/08/national/a114608D06.DTL">article by Norma Love at the AP</a> on the web today concerning a new alternative of dealing with bodies of our loved ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The following description was offered up in the article:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000;">“The process is called alkaline hydrolysis and was developed in this country 16 years ago to get rid of animal <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span>carcasses. It uses lye, 300-degree heat and 60 pounds of pressure per square inch to destroy bodies in big stainless-steel cylinders that are similar to pressure cookers.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: #000000;">They are claming this revolutionary technology, developed 16 years ago used on animals, is a game changer for the industry.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: #000000;">Since Gail and I are relatively young, we have not talked very much about what we done with our bodies after we die, but this certainly has peaked my interest in the subject and I will tell you why.<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #000000;"><img class="alignright" style="float: right; margin: 5px 3px; border: black 2px solid;" src="http://images.zwire.com/local/Z/Zwire1817/zwire/images/2008/05/story/20080509_130141_2_story.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="276" /></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: #000000;">The alternatives have always been either bury or burn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hate getting burned and I think that option doesn’t work for me just because of my hatred for the feeling of getting burned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will I feel it when I die, I don’t think so, but why take the chance?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, what do J.D. and Gail (I am certain she will outlive me) do with the ashes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, I thought it silly to have ashes buried, put out sea, or placed in some remote place on the Earth, “because he always loved that…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How messed up is that thinking?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nope, that option stinks.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: #000000;">The other option is to bury me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not much better than the first option.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What if I wake up and find out that I am 6 feet under.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that there is a very remote chance of that happening, that’s why they call it death, but still, what if?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How horrible the thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who would hear me and I simply don’t have the time to learn the amazing <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">put my fingers through wood</em></strong> trick that Uma Thurman’s character “The Bride” was forced to learn in <a style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" title="Kill Bill" href="&lt;a href=" target="_blank">Kill Bill</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, if I am buried and not quite dead yet, I would be very upset.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: #000000;">Finally, and this is not really an option (at least for me), dedicate my body to science.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What the heck does that mean?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my mind, there would be a bunch of punks looking over my torn apart liver from all the beer I drink at my <a href="http://bushbaker.com/?p=5" target="_self">favorite watering holes</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not to mention the years of sipping cocktails with friends on the weekends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those same punks might then decide to use me in some weird experiment to see what happens to the human body when put under severe duress or something like that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ouch…again, what if I can actually feel that on the other side…not a good thing.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: #000000;">This new alternative means that I have face the music with the whole burn thing, but they know for certain that I am gone and there is no coming back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best of all it is “green” for the environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No worm food jokes or sprinkling the Bush-man over Lake Michigan while everyone toasts…”remember when” or “he always liked the Chicago skyline and now he will get to see it forever.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just fry me up, turn me into some powder that can simply go down the drain and move on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am liking this alternative already…</span></p>
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