Posted on 09/19/2022 8:28:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
We need a two state solution. California gets to become its own country. So they get to be as crazy as they want to be.
Will I have to pay extra for a non gmo version?
Human humus
I’m not sure how you get from composting to cannibalism.
There was a very conservative, Christian couple a few years ago who used to post on YouTube - I believe they were in North Carolina. They decided to be composted. In the very old days, it’s basically what happened to most of us in the Western world.
With all the drugs, preservatives, etc, that we’re putting into ourselves, is that necessarily a good idea?
I’d rather be squeezed into a diamond, but that’s just me.
We’re not the first society to have grappled with the problem of laying the dead to rest in dignity and the finite nature of real estate. See Japan and Germany. A few blankets, personal trinkets, and some bird feathers in a hole covered with dirt was a serviceable solution for a very long time.
Buried is different than being turned composted into fertilizer for crop fields.
Like hell that’s Soylent Green, that’s Hamlet.
Hamlet Act 4 Scene 3
KING CLAUDIUS
Now, Hamlet, where’s Polonius?
HAMLET
At supper.
KING CLAUDIUS
At supper! where?
HAMLET
Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain
Convocation of politic worms are e’en at him. Your
Worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all
Creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for
Maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but
Variable service, two dishes, but to one table:
That’s the end.
KING CLAUDIUS
Alas, alas!
HAMLET
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a
King, and cat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
KING CLAUDIUS
What dost thou mean by this?
HAMLET
Nothing but to show you how a king may go a
Progress through the guts of a beggar.
I personally favor cremation; but it doesn’t matter to me if people want to do this. Everything we eat is grown in soil probably made of disgusting stuff, if you take it back far enough.
(And we eat dead animals without even turning them INTO soil!)
What you are describing is not what this is.
MAN: (entering a shop) Um, excuse me, is this the undertaker’s?
UNDERTAKER: Yup, that’s right, what can I do for you, squire?
M: Um, well, I wonder if you can help me. My mother has just died and I’m not quite sure what I should do.
U: Ah, well, we can ‘elp you. We deal with stiffs.
M: (aghast) Stiffs?
U: Yea. Now there’s three things we can do with your mum. We can bury her, burn her, or dump her.
M: Dump her?
U: Dump her in the Thames.
M: (still aghast) What?
U: Oh, did you like her?
M: Yes!
U: Oh well, we won’t dump her, then. Well, what do you think: burn her, or bury her?
M: Um, well, um, which would you recommend?
U: Well they’re both nasty. If we burn her, she gets stuffed in the flames, crackle, crackle, crackle, which is a bit of a shock if she’s not quite dead. But quick. And then you get a box of ashes, which you can pretend are hers.
M: (timidly) Oh.
U: Or, if you don’t wanna fry her, you can bury her. And then she’ll get eaten up by maggots and weevils, nibble, nibble, nibble, which isn’t so hot if, as I said, she’s not quite dead.
M: I see. Um. Well, I.. I.. I.. I’m not very sure. She’s definitely dead.
U: Where is she?
M: In the sack.
U: Let’s ‘ave a look.
(FX: rustle of bag opening)
U: Umm, she looks quite young.
M: Yes, she was.
U: (over his shoulder) FRED!
F: (offstage) Yea!
U: I THINK WE’VE GOT AN EATER!
F: (offstage) I’ll get the oven on!
M: Um, er…excuse me, um, are you… are you suggesting we should eat my mother?
(pause)
U: Yeah. Not raw, not raw. We cook her. She’d be delicious with a few french fries, a bit of stuffing. Delicious! (smacks his lips)
M: What! (he stammers)
(pause)
M: Actually, I do feel a bit peckish - No! NO, I can’t!
U: Look, we’ll eat your mum. Then, if you feel a bit guilty about it afterwards, we can dig a grave and you can throw up into it.
M: All right.
How is it different? Bugs, critters and all kinds of microbes can break down an animal pretty quickly. It happens in the fields your food comes from all the time.
I guess I just don’t see anything sacred OR despicable about the human body after the soul has moved on.
What DOES seem gruesome to me is embalming and burial.
Billy Shakes had a thing for recycling...
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Not I; ‘twas Chiron and Demetrius:
They ravish’d her, and cut away her tongue;
And they, ‘twas they, that did her all this wrong.
SATURNINUS
Go fetch them hither to us presently.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Why, there they are both, baked in that pie;
Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,
Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.
‘Tis true, ‘tis true; witness my knife’s sharp point.
Kills TAMORA
Or then there’s Tenorman Chili.
You keep avoiding burial, and how it is different from falling on the ground where no civilized human finds you, we find graves from thousands of years ago.
Treatment of the dead has always been seen as a measure of humans advancing, now America is going to use our parents and wives as fertilizer.
This is another step into a new Western man that bodes ill for our future survival.
What do you think happened to people in the past, buried without embalming in wooden boxes? Or people just thrown into a hole?
The same thing happened. It just took longer; and I don’t doubt that you’ve eaten some of their “products” in your life.
I don’t see embalming or impervious metal caskets as a measure of ‘advancement’. I think it’s a pagan attachment to the material. (And it’s one thing I’ve never ‘gotten’ about the ancient Egyptians, whom I admire very much in other ways. By your measure, they were extremely ‘advanced’ - at least the rich ones.)
It’s a very western notion that your atoms somehow follow you around. It’s actually rather perverse and sullies the idea of being and spirit which transcends matter and four macroscopic dimensions.
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