And yet I'm still confused...

Before I even read Stiff I was wondering what I should do with my body after I die. I was kind of hoping that the book would help me decide. One day while sitting at my dining room table my mom and I were having a discussion when she says "Your Grandma is going to donate her organs. I don't know why she did that because depending on the people they could just let you die for your organs instead of trying to save you." Before this comment I had seriously considered giving my organs away after I die. I had grabbed Stiff in an attempt to try and figure out which way I wanted it. While reading the chapter before the last my mom says "Really our bodies are supposed to be cremated" Perfect timing Mom! I thought. I asked her to elaborate and she says "We're supposed to be cremated because our bodies are nothing. Our souls will go away from our bodies after we die so our bodies will just be nothing and are supposed to be given back to the Earth." I'm still deciding on whether I want to be cremated, buried or become a cadaver or whether I want to give my organs away or put them to waste. What could be some pros and cons to each?

Cannibal cures

I know that it seemed normal in the past and still seems normal in different places, but I just can't seem to grasp the idea that body parts served as cures for illnesses. It makes me sick to think that parts of the human body or produced by the human body were used to cure certain things. What makes me think the hardest is that they were so sure about each thing and what it cured. I wonder if those things really worked, or did they think it work and were these things almost like a placebo? How do you suppose they came to be so sure about the cures to everything?