re: Washington is 1st state to allow composting of human bodies

Id gladly be turned Into a tree. If im lucky, some hipster will turn me into artisnal hand-crafted firewood

Handcrafted Firewood

She says, "Wake up, it's no use pretending"
I'll keep stealing, breathing her
Birds are leaving over autumn's ending
One of us will die inside these arms
Eyes wide open, naked as we came
One will spread our ashes around the yard

She says, "If I leave before you, darling
Don't you waste me in the ground"
I lay smiling like our sleeping children
One of us will die inside these arms
Eyes wide open, naked as we came
One will spread our ashes around the yard

Good, cemeteries are a giant waste of space.

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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.

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Do you think this treats bodies like trash or garbage? They give the family the soil which can be used to plant a tree or something. IMO that's more memorable than sticking the person in a box in some random piece of land with a bunch of other bodies.

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Isn't that what happens when they stick us in the hole in the ground anyway?

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Not the way people are buried now. The body is essentially preserved with chemicals and places in a sealed casket.

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When buried six feet down, without a coffin, in ordinary soil, an unembalmed adult normally takes eight to twelve years to decompose to a skeleton. However if placed in a coffin the body can take many years longer, depending on type of wood used. For example a solid oak coffin will hughly slow down the process. I believe there was a case where a body was exhumed in an oak coffin and it was found to still be in a state of decomposition some 50 years later. Of course a lot also depends on how deep the coffin is buried, the state of the soil and the local water table.

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*looks at piles of fresh dirt in back yard*





Allow?

They can compost the shite out of me after they’re done farming my organs and poking my wiener at a medical school. I want society to get the most out of my deadass body.