Posted on 02/17/2020 3:58:58 PM PST by southern rock
At a cost of around $10,000 per pound just into low orbit, it doesn’t sound very profitable unless the land is a diamond mine.
***the world’s first human composting service ****
First? People have been wrapped in cotton or woolen shrouds and buried in earth for thousands of years. One nasty problem....anal leakage. Must stick a cotton ball up the rectum.
Jewish burials are never (supposed to be) embalmed.?
Genesis
50 When Jacob died, Joseph hugged his father and cried over him and kissed him. 2 He commanded the doctors who served him to prepare his father’s body, so the doctors prepared Jacob’s body to be buried. 3 It took the doctors forty days to prepare his body (the usual time it took). And the Egyptians had a time of sorrow for Jacob that lasted seventy days.
Betcha Joseph got the same treatment.
Zoroastrian burial ritual exposes naked corpses in a Tower of Silence where the flesh is stripped from the bones by vultures then the bones are put in an ossuary with other common remains. The soul is said to be released when the bones are stripped clean. It is very much like the American Indian burial rituals.
Yes, and the price of milk is quite high.
“According to one of my son’s (in the funeral biz) it depends on the heat levels of the crematorium. Some aren’t high enough to kill the bug.”
ROTFLMAO!
One of the most memorable movie scenes for me as a child was watching the funeral ritual of Kirk Douglas in The Vikings as flaming arrows were shot into his funerary ship as it drifted out to sea. I always thought that would be the best sort of funeral service anyone could ever hope to have. I wonder if he ever thought so, too.
Whatever, troll.
“Whatever, troll.”
It is not trolling when you point out that someone is wrong and too stubborn to admit it.
That’s what I’m saying - this outfit isn’t really the first.
“I prefer cremation, when I’m done with this meat vehicle. It seems clean and very symbolic, recognizing that the *person* is not/never was the body.”
We have pre purchased mini vaults in our church, side by side for our ashes.
However, we are also, looking at our ashes becoming part of a bench in Bodega Bay, overlooking the bay/ocean. The benches are a fiberglass composite with the ashes and should last for 100+ years. Half of our ashes would be in one mini vault in the church and the other half in the bench in Bodega Bay.
Our two favorite places in this area/world,
Its Soylent Green!
Mixed with wood chips.
http://maryarrchie.com/2019/12/08/zoroastrian-funeral-practice-at-the-towers-of-silence/
“Zoroastrianism is one of the world’s oldest religions that survive in modern times. Like many other religions, Zoroastrianism guides the followers to do more good to life and believe in their High One. The Zoroastrian Funeral Practice not only presents an air of mystery about this religion but also reflects their care towards the environment.
So how did the fellows of Zoroastrianism treat the corpses? According to the surviving sources, they would expose the dead bodies to the scavenging animals. Many scholars believe that this practice dated back to the 5th century.
Zoroastrian Funeral Practice and the Environment
In the belief of the Zoroastrian followers, four elements – fire, water, earth, and air – are the most sacred in the cosmos. No one and nothing in the cosmos would pollute these elements. And they would do anything in order to prevent the pollution. For example, the cremation would cause pollution to the fire, air, and river water. Burial would cause pollution to land and groundwater.
So the solution to this was to dispose of the corpse. There are some other ways to dispose the corpse but leaving them to the scavenging animals was the reason why the Zoroastrians built their Towers of Silence.”
People can do their own searches to find photos of “Towers of Silence” and their guardian vultures.
http://maryarrchie.com/2019/12/08/zoroastrian-funeral-practice-at-the-towers-of-silence/
“Zoroastrianism is one of the world’s oldest religions that survive in modern times. Like many other religions, Zoroastrianism guides the followers to do more good to life and believe in their High One. The Zoroastrian Funeral Practice not only presents an air of mystery about this religion but also reflects their care towards the environment.
So how did the fellows of Zoroastrianism treat the corpses? According to the surviving sources, they would expose the dead bodies to the scavenging animals. Many scholars believe that this practice dated back to the 5th century.
Zoroastrian Funeral Practice and the Environment
In the belief of the Zoroastrian followers, four elements – fire, water, earth, and air – are the most sacred in the cosmos. No one and nothing in the cosmos would pollute these elements. And they would do anything in order to prevent the pollution. For example, the cremation would cause pollution to the fire, air, and river water. Burial would cause pollution to land and groundwater.
So the solution to this was to dispose of the corpse. There are some other ways to dispose the corpse but leaving them to the scavenging animals was the reason why the Zoroastrians built their Towers of Silence.”
People can do their own searches to find photos of “Towers of Silence” and their guardian vultures.
My husband wants his ashes scattered in the creek where he and his father went fishing together for decades.
Sorry! Dup post.
Sounds like a good plan.
Just don’t tell fish and game or the enviros.
It’s so ‘in the sticks’ that I doubt anyone would be watching ;-)
I’ve been telling this to my kids for YEARS! Just bury me under some home grown tomatoes (tjere used to be a song about that) or just bury me in a pine box and plant some fruit trees on me...that way I can continue to produce good fruit.
Well, they found the idea revolting and not legal in some places. But...if you own your own land in some states, it can be done that way. I’m going to send tje article to my daughter.
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