[Skwor]

Feels wrong. We came from the earth and should be returned.

Just a gut opinion, it feels like desecrating a body to me.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Follow the whole cycle.
Dissolved body goes into the sewer.
Sewer water flows to the ocean.
Ocean evaporates forming clouds.
Clouds drop rain on the earth to sustain life.
Dissolved solids that don’t evaporate precipitate onto the ocean floor which is earth underwater.
Subduction moves that material into the earth’s crust.

So the body IS returning to the earth, just on different time scales.

[wildcard_redneck]

I agree. Flushing someone’s remains down the sewer is a desecration. I don’t have a problem with the process, but they should find a better way to dispose of the water and waste that has some dignity about it.

[MotorCityBuck]

You can always have a weekend at Bernie’s set up. Sure you’re family would love that.

[Poison Pill]

Seems a little off putting. But less so than pumping the body full of formaldehyde before putting it in a $10,000 casket that then goes in a concrete burial liner.

[GenXPolymath]

“Just a gut opinion, it feels like desecrating a body to me.”

It’s literally liquid cremation. You could take the ashes of cremation and dissolve them in water too. When people spread ashes the first rain they will dissolve as well or if you spread them at sea or in a river. I understand there are different levels of cremation I am talking the full 1500C version where there is nothing left but ash not cremains from the lower temp cheaper versions.

You might like the become a tree funeral then.

https://earthfuneral.com/resources/tree-pod-burial-explained

Rotting in a box doesn’t appeal to everyone. It’s only a matter of time before the vault gives way and collapses then water will eventually enter the casket no matter how well sealed. Then worm dirt, over geological time you will either be buried under a rising ocean and sediments or uplifted and eroded to the surface and washed away. No land surface is permanent.

I specificity want to be buried at sea in a deep basin that is under active deposition thus ensuring the fossilization of my body into the geological record. Maybe some nonhuman geologist far far in the future will see my bones and be like hey we found another of those primitive ape creatures the ones that gave birth to our silicon based life millions of years ago.

[Bigg Red]

It certainly is desecration.

[sonova]

Feels wrong. We came from the earth and should be returned.
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I have personally drained thousands of gallons of Holy water down the drain, as I maintained a font at Catholic church for several years.

Priest said no problem, as it returns to the earth.

Seems to be a parallel here..

However, I somewhat agree with you.

[9YearLurker]

Well water to well water and ashes to dust?

[greenbrier]

just a gut opinion, it feels like desecrating a body to me.

Indeed, there is no aspect of ritual about this. Respect for the body is service to the remaining part of the person that it once served.

This disrespect for the body, treated as sewage, will only tend to reinforce the already disturbing disrespect for the person.

Another question is why the obsession with technology to turn the deceased into something so disregarded? Simple trench graves would be more dignified, and ultimately reusable and sustainable - example, Hart Island in NYC.

[one guy in new jersey]

That’s your inner Catholic talking.

[No name given]

I’m with you on this one.