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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Oh bury me not on the lone prairie
Just lay me out in a field and let me rot in peace
In a proper composting process, even the bones are reduced to their simplest components. The reason the bones in *your* compost pile don’t decompose is because it doesn’t work hot or fast enough. There isn’t enough volume to do the deed.
Ah, was just thinking it would take {a lot?} longer for the funeraries to compost bones.
Great conductors never die... they just decompose.
I’m reminded of the ancient Egyptian undertakers putting several animals into a single animal mummy.
Chicken farmers compost chickens. They pile them up in alternating layers with mulch. The key is a waterproof slab to keep juices from entering the ground.
You want ghost plants? Cause that’s how you get ghost plants.
Think outside the box.....
Soylent Green. “Eat your dead neighbor Charles or you get no dessert”. Cue up “just another brick in the wall. “
Learned about that from movie Blindside.
Mommy, why is grandpa sleeping in the garden?
Rochester, NH, needed to widen a roadway. They moved the entire cemetery out of the way!
For $5,000, the Neptune Society will mix one's ashes with concrete, and put that "sculpture" in a "garden" below 30 feet of Atlantic Ocean. The "sculpture" designs aren't particularly inspiring.
There haven't been too many taking the Neptune Society's "Neptune" offer, so they'll just take over with a usual cremation from the moment of one's death. (That is, if they're made aware of it). No refunds, I guess...
$9.
Do I have to pay in advance?
;)
With 7 Billion on the planet, about 1 in 70 dies every year. If I was good at math, I could possibly compute how many die every year.
Many in the West cremate, and India uses open fires—with 400 pounds of wood consumed per corpse. Sure, natural decomposition involves a modest amount of heat, but world-wide cremations by gas- or wood- fire puts out a lot of heat!
April Fool’s Day joke.
Why not a common cemetery for a non-casket burial. Wrap them in a cotton shroud and bury them deep. Natural decomposition will do the rest. Worms need to eat as well as buzzards.
A friend of mine had something called a “green funeral.”
Hmmm...if i could get about million people to each contribute..
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