How would you feel to have a part of your body passed down as a holy relic?

[Drathnoxis]

You see this from time to time in fiction, where some part of a person's body is passed down for centuries and worshiped as a holy relic or used as an object of power. Would you like this to be done for you, and what body part would you like preserved?

 

[Thaluikhain]

Be a bit too dead to care.

Now, a lot of relics are just random bones from some random, and not from whoever they are supposed to be. That's more interesting, IMHO.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

Does the content of my bowels count as a body part?

 

[Thaluikhain]

Oh, wait, if it has your DNA on it, it could be used to clone you by cultists in the future.

 

[Chimpzy]

Utterly horrified and disgusted

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

musing of own death's a daily occurrence from childhood, though what ppl do to this shambling corpse afterwards has not once entered the worry cells in all that time. so, um, whatever you want I guess: experiment, pickle, paint, stuff, deify, snort, burn, maim, eat, fuck - won't matter anymore, those are your problems of consciousness now. flll ya boots with whatever freaky shit you want!

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

"As we prostrate ourselves before the Holy Duodenum...."

 

[Catfood220]

Fucking hilarious. My ghost would probably die laughing at the stupid people.

 

[Kyrian007]

I think I'd rather a part of me become a novelty rather than relic. Something like the things Barnum put on display, or the Dawson City Hotel Bar toe shot. Something that would ensure you'd be remembered, bring joy to people, and probably not convince anyone that they should purge unbelievers with fire and steel.