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To: S0122017

German man feeds dead neighbor to pigs.

I once asked my younger son what he wanted done with his body when he died. He said, "Bury me in a pine box, under an apple tree on a hillside in a cow pasture." When I asked him why there, he replied, "Well, I've eaten enough of them in my day, it is only fair that they get to eat me." That is the grass and apples that would come from the roots nourished by his body.


66 posted on 03/11/2006 2:53:04 AM PST by gleeaikin (Question Authority)
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To: gleeaikin

I read once, (wish i had a link) about a man that was buried under an appeltree. For whatever reason they dug up the coffin years later, only to find that the coffin was empty except for some roots!

Then one person looked closely, and noticed that the many fine roots followed the human bloodcirculation..
The roots had penetrated the body and in the conditions of the soil + bacteria which had dissolved the skeleton, had completely absorbed the body through roots. And ofcourse the roots followed the path of the most nutrients, being our bloodstream. Cool huh?


67 posted on 03/11/2006 4:38:53 AM PST by S0122017
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