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Respecting the Earth, even in death: Seattle architect proposes human composting
Seattle Times ^ | May 8, 2016 | Lauren Frohne

Posted on 05/10/2016 6:22:44 AM PDT by C19fan

“I had this epiphany as a thirty-something, that I was going to die someday,” says Seattle-based architect Katrina Spade. As she watched her children, (then 2 and 5 years old) grow up day to day, she thought about a time when they would be 40 years old. And that she would be 70. And that she would eventually die.

She began to look into the options we have for our corpses when we die, and the spaces and rituals associated with them: hardwood caskets, concrete vaults in the ground, carbon-emitting cremation, formaldehyde embalming, claiming a piece of real estate in the Earth as your own for eternity.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: burial; death; envirowhackos
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Sick. Too bad Hitler did not think of this alternative to burning Jewish corpses in ovens.
1 posted on 05/10/2016 6:22:45 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Apparently he thought Soylent Green was a documentary.


2 posted on 05/10/2016 6:24:55 AM PDT by cyclotic (Liberalism is what smart looks like to stupid people.)
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To: C19fan

Gee, what a waste — why not full-on Soylent Green?!


3 posted on 05/10/2016 6:25:11 AM PDT by twister881 (Politics)
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Soylent Green be peoples!


4 posted on 05/10/2016 6:25:29 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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Zoroastrians did it first!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Silence


5 posted on 05/10/2016 6:28:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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To: C19fan

She sounds like she already is “human compost”.


6 posted on 05/10/2016 6:29:15 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (It's time to TRUMP the race card in America so we can all get along again.)
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To: C19fan

I want to be a willow, so I can eat my hobbitses.


7 posted on 05/10/2016 6:29:23 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: C19fan
Way ahead of his time...


8 posted on 05/10/2016 6:30:21 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: Jonty30

Until Tom Bombadillo dances around the corner... ;)


9 posted on 05/10/2016 6:30:35 AM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Maybe so. But she is also just a little bit more than that.

Go look at this woman’s picture at the link.

http://www.echoinggreen.org/fellows/katrina-spade


10 posted on 05/10/2016 6:30:52 AM PDT by Gaffer
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“I had this epiphany as a thirty-something, that I was going to die someday”

We are all going to die! In less than 125 years every man, woman and child now living will be dead!!!

It's Bush's fault. Bush and those damned SUVs.

Womyn and minorities will be hardest hit.

11 posted on 05/10/2016 6:31:45 AM PDT by kennedy (No relation to those other Kennedys.)
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eh, not much different then what they did in the old days, if you died, they just buried you along the trail somewhere and you decomposed...When I go, just bury me by the lake somewhere, I’ll be just fine I think.


12 posted on 05/10/2016 6:32:55 AM PDT by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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To: Gaffer

u ruined my day with that pic


13 posted on 05/10/2016 6:33:32 AM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: Gaffer

Yikes!

14 posted on 05/10/2016 6:34:08 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty.)
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To: Gaffer

Yikes! Now I’m going to be hearing that Looney Toons theme all day in my head.


15 posted on 05/10/2016 6:34:33 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (It's time to TRUMP the race card in America so we can all get along again.)
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Actually in modern Germany bodies are only buried for so long. After a period of time, I think it’s ten years or so, the body is dug up and cremated and the plot is reused. They only have so much space.


16 posted on 05/10/2016 6:34:53 AM PDT by Snowybear
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To: Gaffer

I had a premonition before you posted.


17 posted on 05/10/2016 6:35:20 AM PDT by TurkeyLurkey
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To: Rummyfan

Kee-ripes! is that her?

Why do all libtards LOOK SO STUPID?


18 posted on 05/10/2016 6:35:55 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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To: wyowolf

You want waterfront property? You pay extra for that. :)


19 posted on 05/10/2016 6:36:13 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Rummyfan

Miley Cyrus meets Pee Wee Herman.


20 posted on 05/10/2016 6:36:29 AM PDT by IronJack
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