Posted on 12/09/2019 11:35:58 AM PST by C19fan
The world's first funeral home dedicated to composting human remains will open in Washington state in 2021.
'Deathcare' company Recompose has spent the last two years working to bring the concept of human corpse composting, known as natural organic reduction, to the public, marketing it as a gentle and natural alternative to cremation and traditional burial with a significantly smaller carbon footprint.
The plan is finally coming to fruition as design firm Oslon Kundig has released digital renderings of what Recompose's first facility will look like when it opens in less than two years' time.
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Soylent Green for dinner?
Burial is the most carbon neutral alternative. If you burn or decompose it produces carbon dioxide.
its interesting how architects of the modern era always seem to be lurking about the fringes of fascism, communism and now, post-modern statism and eco-leftism.
I suppose one becomes an architect because one has a desire to engineer society and people's lives.
Seems an overly complicated solution when all you have to do to be eco-friendly is feed the corpse to some hogs.
Compost my body when i’m gone.
$9.
It all becomes what it started as anyway. CO2, water vapor, excess chemical binding energy, nitrogen, and various other elements worth about $10. It doesn’t matter if it’s buried, burned, or eaten by worms.
Doesn’t say what they’ll do with the bones.
I am fine with deciding on other ways for burial, at least for my own. We don’t just have to do it the same way.
We are running out of developed land that could be used for housing or other purposes. The world is far more crowded than it was 100 years ago. Personally, I don’t want to keep any dirt of my loved ones, but the final costs would probably be far lower than a formal funeral.
How ironic that the CEO of this compost centered project is named
Karen SPADE.
Some artists are already using that residual material to make personal jewelry for the bereaved.
What next? Tax incentives for composting? Tax rebates for turning into soylent green? Why not do this now with aborted babies? They just throw them in the trash now. Composting them would solve two problems. Feminazis could start composting businesses next door to abortion clinics.
[Of course I’m not serious. All this is so unreal, insane and unnatural, that cynicism is the only refuge.]
Well, we’re pretty much just meat anyway, and when we are dead we are dead meat, so what does it matter how we are disposed of? /S!
Every state has vast amounts of land!! This crap about running out of land is ridiculous!! Hey come to southwest Texas and we’ll bury you in the desert no need for embalming...The heat and the sand will take care of the decomposition! AND it’s free!
“You like Tennessee? That’s a good school. Not at the academic level of Ole Miss but they have an outstandin’ science department. You know what they’re famous for? They work with the FBI, to study the effects soil on decomposin’ body parts. When they find a body, the police wanna know how long it’s been dead. So the fine works at Tennessee help them out. Oh, they have lots of body parts. Arms and legs and hands, from hospitals and medical schools. And do you know where they store ‘em? Right underneath the football field. So while it’s fine and dandy to have 10,000 fans cheerin’ for you, the bodies you should be worried about are the ones right under the turf. Set to poke up through the ground and grab you... Well, it’s your decision where you wanna play ball. Don’t let me influence you.”
Naaa, hogs are for human consumption
Leave the bodies out there for the coyotes
I could put a corpse out here under the pine trees and it’d be down to bare bones in 2 days thanks to an abundance of vultures, raccoons and fire ants.
Down here there are artists who put the ashes in glass and there is a service that mixes them in concrete to make wiffleball-looking artificial reef structures
You can incorporate ashes into a glass sculpture
https://www.cremationsolutions.com/cremation-keepsakes/cremation-glass-keepsakes-and-urns
Turn Grandma into a paperweight.
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