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This is the vision - in an indoor garden, a honeycomb structure lines the walls, and inside each cell, a human body composts. When it's done, loved ones take home a pot of soil, not an urn of ash.A person's final resting place could be the foundations of a flowerbed or could feed the roots of a tree.
This is what Washington state is preparing to legalise. If the bill passes, the western state would be the first in the nation to allow human composting as a burial option.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47031816
Thoughts?
Sure sounds better than embalming and burial. Sounds a bit less menacing than cremation.
I like the sound of composting over many of the other options.
I have no desire to be embalmed and buried.
Would you sign up for this? If not, why?
Serious response : I might consider it, but it's one of many unappealing options. Being a mummy in a mausoleum sounds interesting, though.
Next step...Soylent Green.
Marketing message: Take home a piece of your loved one...let them nourish you even after they have passed on.
What's menacing about cremation?
Intense FIRE!!!!
Yeah, but your already dead, so...
That's the hope anyway...:shock:
Why is it unappealing?
Are you familiar with the process of mummification? It's not very pretty.
I dug mummies when I was a kid. As for appealing, I don't find much appealing about death.
That's the hope anyway...:shock:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47031816
Thoughts?
Sure sounds better than embalming and burial. Sounds a bit less menacing than cremation.
I like the sound of composting over many of the other options.
I have no desire to be embalmed and buried.
Would you sign up for this? If not, why?
That’s why the last stitch in the navies of old was through the nose...
What is done about the smell? Real estate sales in the area could be affected......
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47031816
Thoughts?
Sure sounds better than embalming and burial. Sounds a bit less menacing than cremation.
I like the sound of composting over many of the other options.
I have no desire to be embalmed and buried.
Would you sign up for this? If not, why?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47031816
Thoughts?
Sure sounds better than embalming and burial. Sounds a bit less menacing than cremation.
I like the sound of composting over many of the other options.
I have no desire to be embalmed and buried.
Would you sign up for this? If not, why?
The carbon tax.
Or donate my body to science is probably the best, most useful thing to do
Think of it as a good, loooooooooooooooooooooong nap.eace
That's one way to look at it.
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