Posted on 02/17/2020 3:58:58 PM PST by southern rock
It is not a ‘bug’. It is a protein. And if the crematorium doesn’t kill it due to low temperature you have a situation where you have to clean out blood and guts.
They are testing this in China. They dig huge holes in the ground. Then they pour in bodies. They are buried and haz mat signs are put in the ground.
We’ll see how good that is for the environment.
My mom was cremated. No funeral. No extras. If I didn’t do the obituary, it would have been less than $4,000. It will cost $75 to open the grave in the Spring.
I didn’t think that was bad.
And they are fast. I think they are on to something.
Crackle, crackle.
In fact, while not a requirement (and if laws/situation allows), the preferred practice is to drill holes in the bottom of the coffin to speed the process along.
From dust we came and to dust we shall return.
“How can Jewish burials do what you’re describing?”
Some areas, you can’t.
The preferred practice is as described. If law or situation prevents it, that’s the way it is.
For example, an autopsy is generally forbidden, but if there is a possible murder or whatnot, you follow the law.
On a related topic, organ donation is considered a mitzvah (a good thing).
“put them on elevated platforms and let them decompose in the wind”
I once put a dead cat up on a tree limb. Worked pretty good.
A friend of mine had a “green” funeral, according to her obit. I believe it involved some variation of this “recomposting” technique.
Less out of concern for climate change and more because she was just a hippie.
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