Posted on 09/19/2022 8:28:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I didn’t know or remember Soylent Green was set in 2022. One of the movies I watched as a kid that scared the boogers out of me. Heston made some pretty powerful movies. The Ten Commandments, Soylent Green, The Omega Man. All affected me greatly as a kid. I still watch The Ten Commandments every Easter.
When I snuff it, I would be perfectly happy to be tossed up on the ridge and just let nature do its thing.
Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms.
By the time Gavin Newsom is done with California, you’ll see Edward G. Robinson on an exercycle-generator.
The burial ceremony is for the living, the culture, and it evidently serves an important purpose.
This is just another big jump from the left in the deconstructing of our society and our relationship with each other and with life and God.
Euthanasia of the old, post-birth abortion, operating on children to make them look like the sex their 10-year-old selves feel like that month, skipping the cemetery, and putting the dead to use in fertilizer bags.
The left knows what they are doing and they are good at what they do as they remove barrier after barrier and make us ever more indifferent to everything and non-connected to anything or to each other, after all, to repeat one of their old major steps “sex is just like going to the bathroom, it is just a body function”.
We’ll give you the Tibetan ‘Sky Burial’. I think the Native Americans had something similar...
Not really. While yes, bodies were not embalmed (or cremated after Christianity took hold), they were buried individually in marked graves in consecrated ground with reverence. Yes, most were buried in simple wooden coffins or in shrouds only, and quickly decomposed, but they were treated with honor and care and given a space in the earth to be honored.
In places where space was limited and grave sites had to be reused, then many, many years after burial, bones might be removed to an ossuary or church crypt. In my extreme circumstances, such as during the Black Plague or after a huge battle, bodies were sometimes buried in trenches.
Honoring the dead is universally human, whether burial at sea, sending the deceased off on a journey to the next life in a burning Viking ship (one of the coolest and most creative methods), cremation or burial, people honored their dead.
In college, I worked on a archaeological dig of 9th century Eastern Woodland American Indian stone box burials. Because of the limestone boxes, the skeletons were perfectly preserved. We treated them with honor, excavating with spoons and soft brushes, and the bones were later reinterred elsewhere by their (most likely) band of descendents (the original cemetery was in a construction site). They all faced east. Sometimes a stone box had been reused, with the bones of the previous occupant carefully arranged at the foot of the box. There were grave goods, too. Clay pots and whatnot.
Composting is the commodification of human beings, treating them like trash to be recycled, or yard waste or whatever, a raw material to be made into a useful product.
We’ve already commodified pre-born babies. If wanted he’s called a baby before birth. If unwanted, she’s called “the products of conception” and disposed of as biological waste after being killed, sometimes after useful bits have been sold off to a lab. Want a child, but no hubby? There’s always the sperm bank where you can choose from a catalogue of characteristics you’d like your kid to inherit. Gay and want a baby? You can rent the womb of a desperately poor woman in a desperately poor country. Nevemind that a child needs both father and mother, and that every child craves both biological parents.
Now we want to commodify the dead, too. So much for being created in the image of God, so much for every human being having intrinsic worth. Kill the unwanted babies, compost the dead. Right now, treating human bodies as so much trash is still taboo between birth and death. But the idea of human bodies as commodities has also given rise to mutilating children confused about their “gender” and those grotesque implanted horns, amputated fingers, black eyeballs, etc. seen in those addicted to “body modifaction”. What next?
Oh why not power your television or heat your pool using grandma’s body as fuel?
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna45526347
https://energydigital.com/renewable-energy/dead-bodies-burned-heat-pools-uk
Thanks, granny!
A life can be commemorated and the dead honored in many ways. I was very moved by all of the ceremony surrounding the death of the Queen today; but I wouldn’t have felt any differently if she were cremated or - yes - composted somewhere.
If individuals want to do this, I have no problem with it. I don’t believe anyone should be forced to do it, but I also don’t understand conflating it with cannibalism, selling of aborted body parts, etc.
As I stated earlier in this thread, I’m aware of some very conservative, religious Christians who have chosen composting for themselves. It’s what they wanted. I very much doubt that they viewed themselves as associated with any of the materialistic notions that you suggest.
You sound skeptical.
The German title of the movie is "...Jahr 2022... die überleben wollen."
Regards,
Not skeptical. Just surprised. Soylent Green is not shown too much on movie channels, so I haven’t seen it in years.
Cremated and her ashes treated with respect, fine. Treated as a commodity — a raw material for compost, no.
It’s one thing to want a simple burial, plain wooden box or shroud, no enbalming, etc. It’s another to treat a human body as a commodity, a raw material to be used for some purpose.
On a societal level, it’s not so much what becomes of the body (in both cases decay), it is our attitude toward the human body, and how that attitude affects us and larger society. Are human bodies commodities or the temple of the soul created in God’s image? Are humans sacred or not? Before birth, is a baby a commodity to be nurtured if wanted, cast into the biohazard waste bin if unwanted? After death, is a human body to be honored, or a commodity used to make compost (or electricity)?
Except for the manufacture of the reusable container and the wood chips.
the wife will probably murder me and bury me in the garden
is that what they are talking about?
unvaxxed will bring a premium
The cemeteries in New Orleans - kind of like this too.
They don’t call the boy Gruesome Newsom for nothing.
Serial killers have been ahead of the curve for years.
Cordon off San Fran and la.
Governor Hair Gel 🤣
Enabling them to destroy the evidence of human trafficking...?
Oh FFS
This is exactly how I want to go.
Anybody with a problem with it can go straight to hell as far as I am concerned.
Bury me in the forest somewhere, not in a casket or a church graveyard.
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