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re: Washington is 1st state to allow composting of human bodies
Posted on 5/22/19 at 9:23 am to TouchedTheAxeIn82
Posted on 5/22/19 at 9:23 am to TouchedTheAxeIn82
Many people will be more useful dead than alive
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Posted on 5/22/19 at 9:25 am to Cajunate
I tell folks to just throw me in the trash, so this is an even better option.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 9:26 am to Cajunate
Uh gross...
Posted on 5/22/19 at 9:27 am to Cajunate
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It allows licensed facilities to offer "natural organic reduction," which turns a body, mixed with substances such as wood chips and straw, into about two wheelbarrows' worth of soil in a span of several weeks.
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Loved ones are allowed to keep the soil to spread, just as they might spread the ashes of someone who has been cremated — or even use it to plant vegetables or a tree.
I dont see a problem with that...but when they start selling grandpa compost at Home Depot that might be going a little too far.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 9:28 am to Cajunate
is it weird if someone already does this with their pets?
Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 9:28 am to Jimbeaux
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but neither should we treat our bodies like discarded husks or just some trash that needs to be disposed of like garbage. To do so would contribute to the cheapening of our understanding of human life.
I know a guy who owns a funeral home in Shreveport who when preparing a body once kept messing with this dudes leg bc it would make his dick fly up in the air. Him and his buddy kept making big joke about it. To me, this is better than that happening to my body by some random dude.
This post was edited on 5/22/19 at 9:33 am
Posted on 5/22/19 at 9:31 am to Dire Wolf
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Isn't that what happens when they stick us in the hole in the ground anyway?
Even though the box we're buried in is biodegradable (as are we), many cemeteries require cement vaults. That's one of the several hundred dollar add-ons that up the bottom line. Reason, so the grass in the cemetery is more easily mowed with no swales to be filled.
The move to simpler burials has been a thing in England for several decades.
Now for a historic perspective. Obviously after a major battle, locals would go out, and retrieve boots, clothes and metal things. But a couple of years later, they'd go out and retrieve bones for fertilizer for their crops. Bone meal is a really good slow release fertilizer.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 9:32 am to Rabbs and QStick
Coffin burials are a waste of time, resources, and land imo.
Stick me in one of those organic tree pods when I die or feed me to Jaws.
Stick me in one of those organic tree pods when I die or feed me to Jaws.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 9:33 am to Cajunate
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"That's a serious weight on the earth and the environment as your final farewell"
Bitch, please.
Get your liberal SJW arse out of here.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 9:59 am to Supermoto Tiger
So no one has a problem with their loved one like a child that has died spread in their vegetable garden?
Posted on 5/22/19 at 10:02 am to Jimbeaux
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I don’t think that the physical remains of our body after death should be “preserved” or prevented from returning “to the earth” (ashes to ashes, dust to dust), but neither should we treat our bodies like discarded husks or just some trash that needs to be disposed of like garbage. To do so would contribute to the cheapening of our understanding of human life
But if it is the preferred ending of the deceased and their family, is really a cheapening? How different is it from cremation? or burning on a Pyre? If it's done with reverence i don't think it really matters how it's done.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 10:03 am to Cajunate
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So no one has a problem with their loved one like a child that has died spread in their vegetable garden?
I'm sure some people do, but I don't? To each their own.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 10:05 am to Cajunate
There's a few places around the US that do studies on the decomposition of human remains, mostly for crime purposes.
Body Farms
Body Farms
Posted on 5/22/19 at 10:05 am to Cajunate
Is this why Washington is ranked 1st?
Posted on 5/22/19 at 10:09 am to Athos
Using our dead bodies as tree food is not the worst idea, and it’s more balanced than preserving our corpses in a box.
However, this is one of those societal traditions that took a long time develop and we would be wise to unwind it cautiously.
Modern people presumptuously believe that all change is good and a sort of historical blindness has taken hold.
Honoring and remembering the dead, however we choose to do it, as long as it has a well established and respected sense of the sacred, should not be eroded by short sightedness or the misuse of past traditions whose purpose has been forgotten.
However, this is one of those societal traditions that took a long time develop and we would be wise to unwind it cautiously.
Modern people presumptuously believe that all change is good and a sort of historical blindness has taken hold.
Honoring and remembering the dead, however we choose to do it, as long as it has a well established and respected sense of the sacred, should not be eroded by short sightedness or the misuse of past traditions whose purpose has been forgotten.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 10:11 am to Cajunate
But officer, I'm not a serial killer, I was just trying to fertilize my garden.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 10:14 am to Cajunate
I always thought it interesting that over the 200,000 years that humans have been around, the likelihood of human remains being buried underneath farmland or pastures is high-ish. So the bodies fed the grass that feed the cows that we eat. Or the bodies fed the corn, wheat, etc that we eat.
So the same oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, phosphorus, calcium atoms that were in our ancestors may be within our own bodies
So the same oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, phosphorus, calcium atoms that were in our ancestors may be within our own bodies
Posted on 5/22/19 at 10:17 am to Cajunate
I think it's time to stop burying people in vaults and taking up real estate. I'm good with this.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 10:18 am to rented mule
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If it's done with reverence i don't think it really matters how it's done.
This is the key to the discussion. I agree.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 10:21 am to Cajunate
Don't we all decompose at some point?
This post was edited on 5/22/19 at 10:22 am
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