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originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: Gothmog
religions and cultures if you want to be absolutely correct
Explain to me which religion mandates being pumped full of embalming fluid.
It's a Seattle-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has a novel idea when it comes to making burials greener: composting human remains. It calls its system "Recomposition" and says it "transforms bodies into soil so that we can grow new life after we die."
If that's not important to you, ok. Do it your own way.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: Gryphon66
In fact many forbid the practice.
Which takes me back to my original comment that death is big business. People are getting taken in by marketing.
"Not having a traditional funeral? Then you obviously didn't love the decedent."
originally posted by: scraedtosleep
Got to have the nicest coffin or you didn't really love them.
Got to have the memorial in a church (even if your not christain) or you didn't love them.
Got to have them buried or you didn't really love them.
Got to have them buried in the nice part of the cemetery or you didn't really love them.
Better make sure their body is pumped full of chemicals or you didn't love them.
If your family members aren't rotting in box somewhere than you didn't really love them.
originally posted by: scraedtosleep
I was going to post some video of the process but i'm eating right now....
And equating something with good just because it's found in nature is a logical fallacy.
It's a Seattle-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has a novel idea when it comes to making burials greener: composting human remains. It calls its system "Recomposition" and says it "transforms bodies into soil so that we can grow new life after we die."
originally posted by: darepairman
a reply to: silo13
To be honest I keep telling the wife, that if I ever find out I am terminal, I am going to get a couple pounds of bacon drive to the woods, get naked and go looking for a bear.
originally posted by: FHomerK
a reply to: ketsuko
And equating something with good just because it's found in nature is a logical fallacy.
Hey bub, do what EVER you wish.
And I'll do things my way. Deal? Or is that a logical fallacy as well?
originally posted by: FHomerK
a reply to: silo13
Because, being placed in a sealed coffin after the body has been embalmed is such a brilliant idea as well.
What we do with our dead is unnatural. I would probably prefer something along these lines for myself, as I have already opted for cremation.
originally posted by: silo13
The 'Urban Death Project' Wants to Turn You Into Soil
While the "Urban Death Project" may sound like the title of Hollywood's latest horror film, it's something else entirely—though perhaps not less macabre.
It's a Seattle-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has a novel idea when it comes to making burials greener: composting human remains. It calls its system "Recomposition" and says it "transforms bodies into soil so that we can grow new life after we die."
The devaluation of the humans is reaching a new low. Sure, it all sounds fine and good until you really start thinking about it.
All our dead bodies thrown together in a big blender mixed with animal carcasses, entrails and poop to be 'transformed' into fertilizer? Really? That's just perfectly wretched.
Sounds like a huge chance to take also. I don't know anything about how it all comes down but what if you have someone with let's say AIDS who just happens to be fertilizing under your feet. What germs - microbes - whatever would the fertilization process let loose into the air, ground, etc? Maybe someone here will know.
The Seattle Times notes the project has run one experiment thus far involving wood chips and a 78-year-old woman's remains.
It's not approved but they did it anyway? I'd like to know how all that came about.
What I do know is Washington State University is the first of it's kind to build one of these processing plants. Right now they're making fertilizer out of dead animals, manure, entrails, etc. They say they're going to keep humans separate during the testing phase - but by that statement alone? You know we'll all be smooshed in with Fido and pig guts and poo sooner than later.
Nope, no green death for me.
Just one more step towards Soylent Green in my opinion.
Edit to Add: Before you run right over there to allow your body to be made into shat? The page staes:
Due to overwhelming interest, we are not currently enrolling participants in the pilot program at this time.
Why doesn't that surprise me. I mean, it's Seattle.
peace