Posted on 09/19/2022 8:28:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Remember the Charlton Heston movie Soylent Green?
It comes to mind, because this 1973 futuristic movie was set in 2022.
Let that sink in.
It also comes to mind because thanks to Biden’s economic agenda (or lack thereof), much of the dystopian ethos of that world is being baked into our everyday lives. The World Economic Forum keeps pushing new forms of insect protein on us, and it was only a matter of time before cannibalism was happily presented as an idea whose time had come.
For the sake of the environment, even our death traditions are being restructured to fit the paradigm of you will own nothing and you will be happy with it. It’s wasteful to plant a headstone to memorialize your loved one, not to mention selfish. The land should belong to everyone, and you can contribute to its flourishing by composting your loved ones remains.
Save the planet, and save some space.
While this is not a new concept (it started in Washington state), making the idea hip, palatable, and righteous has moved to the next level.
And of course, California leads the way.
From the San Francisco Gate:
There are traditionally two options for what to do with a body after death: burial or cremation.
In California, a third choice will soon present itself for those who shuffle off this mortal coil. That choice is human composting.
Assembly Bill 351, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday, will allow residents to choose human composting, or natural organic reduction (NOR), after death starting in 2027.
The process of composting a cadaver, already legalized in Washington, Colorado and Oregon, involves placing the body in a reusable container, surrounding it with wood chips and aerating it to let microbes and bacteria grow. After about a month, the remains will decompose and be fully transformed into soil. Companies such as Recompose in Washington offer the service at a natural organic reduction facility.
Unlike cremation, the process avoids the burning of fossil fuels and emission of carbon monoxide. National Geographic estimates that cremations in the U.S. alone emit about 360,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year.
Ahh, climate change. No wonder Hair Gel signed it. As I write, His Hairfulness has abandoned the state to attend Climate Week NYC, because he pushes zero emissions and an all electric California by 2035, but begs people not to charge their electric vehicles in order to not overwhelm the power grid.
Totally brill.
During the early depths of the coronavirus pandemic, when funeral homes were inundated, Los Angeles County suspended regulations on cremation emissions. The author of the bill, Democratic Assemblymember Cristina Garcia, says the threat of climate change motivated the new law.
“AB 351 will provide an additional option for California residents that is more environmentally-friendly and gives them another choice for burial,” said Garcia in a statement. “With climate change and sea-level rise as very real threats to our environment, this is an alternative method of final disposition that won’t contribute emissions into our atmosphere.”
AB 351 was signed into law! It legalizes “human composting” as an after-death option.
Wildfires, extreme drought, record heat waves reminds us that climate change is real and we must do everything we can to reduce methane & CO2 emissions. @Earth_Funeral https://t.co/iKJ9QK0qDU
— Cristina Garcia (@AsmGarcia) September 19, 2022
You know if Cristina Garcia is attached to it, there’s a kickback in the middle of the human compost, especially since there is a five-year stretch between the signing of the law and the actual implementation (2027).
Garcia is the genius behind California bills which dictated the non-binary Target aisle, “period poverty,” and “stealthing.” She is also one of the most corrupt members of California’s Assembly; and that’s saying a lot. After supposedly championing the whole #MeToo in the California Assembly in 2018, she was accused of sexual harassment, along with making racist comments.
Quite the package, and totally on brand for the face of the Democrat Supermajority.
Garcia’s 58th District, between SouthGate and Santa Fe Springs in Southern California, is part of the infamous corridor of corruption—elected officials and bureaucrats within the public utilities make it an art form to rape the taxpayers while feathering their nests. So, bet you dollars to donuts that if we dig into the financial records of Recompense, or whatever company will be handling this new boondoggle, we will probably find Garcia’s dirty hands all over it.
The ethical considerations behind it are also questionable. The Catholic Church, for one, is none too happy.
The idea of composting human remains has raised some ethical questions. Colorado’s version of the law dictates that the soil of multiple people cannot be combined without consent, the soil cannot be sold and it cannot be used to grow food for human consumption. The California bill bans the combining of multiple peoples’ remains, unless they are family, but unlike Colorado, California is not explicitly banning the sale of the soil or its use growing food for human consumption.
The process has met opposition in California from the Catholic Church, which say the process “reduces the human body to simply a disposable commodity.”
Sounds like another death practice that the Supreme Court released back to the states to decide, and that California is falling all over itself to enshrine.
“NOR uses essentially the same process as a home gardening composting system,” the executive director of the California Catholic Conference, Kathleen Domingo, said in a statement shared with SFGATE. She added that the process was developed for livestock, not humans.
“These methods of disposal were used to lessen the possibility of disease being transmitted by the dead carcass,” she said. “Using these same methods for the ‘transformation’ of human remains can create an unfortunate spiritual, emotional and psychological distancing from the deceased.”
The church also said that the process, which may lead to remains being dispersed in public locations “risks people treading over human remains without their knowledge while repeated dispersions in the same area are tantamount to a mass grave.”
The executive director of the archdiocese of San Francisco, Peter Marlow, told SFGATE that Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone opposes the law, and stands by the position of the California Catholic Conference.
While we are watching the Left go scorched earth in their wholesale destruction of traditional values and institutions, and in some respects, the Right’s accedence to it, death traditions and the recent erosion of them was not necessarily on anyone’s Bingo card. But think back to June of 2020, when we were fighting lockdowns and restrictions on gatherings, even funerals, while the Left conducted a three-day, multi-city, full-court press “honoring” the death of George Floyd and they expected you to just take it. The same with the July packed funeral for Rep. John Lewis. My dear cousin passed away in June of 2020, and we had to have a memorial for him over Zoom.
Dead bodies, whether from COVID or other illnesses and fatalities were allowed to back up and pile up, thrown into refrigerated vans like so much detritus. It has only been recently that things have returned to normal; if you can call it that.
Illinois lawmakers have also been pushing to legalize human composting as a means of burial over the last few years. The Illinois Family Institute has been exposing the agenda behind this and draws a straight line between the trans agenda and this so-called new form of honoring life.
Isn’t “recomposition” what the “trans” cult believes they can do? Don’t they believe they can recompose male bodies into female bodies?
In a grave tone of voice with not a glimmer of irony, Spade [CEO of Recompense] pays lip service (or as Macbeth calls it “mouth honor”) to the natural and deep reverence people have for the bodies of loved ones as demonstrated in the ceremonies that attend their deaths:
Imagine it: part public park, part funeral home, part memorial to the people we love, a place where we can reconnect to the cycles of nature and treat bodies with gentleness and respect.
Hmmm… is that how most people conceive of human-composting?
Human composting will be voluntary at first, but how long will that last? Probably about as long as voluntary euthanasia. Doctors are now performing non-voluntary euthanizations. And what comes after non-voluntary human composting? Mandatory human composting.
How long before cannibalism of recently deceased humans is legalized? After all, why waste all that good meat. Maybe we could call it Soylent Green.
Charlton Heston and the Soylent Green filmmakers probably had no idea they were prophets.
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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