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Swedish green-burial firm to turn frozen corpses in compost
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Posted on 04/19/2011 5:49:53 PM PDT by massmike
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posted on
04/19/2011 5:49:56 PM PDT
by
massmike
To: massmike
It’s peeeeeeeeeeople!
Pretty weird stuff.
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posted on
04/19/2011 5:51:18 PM PDT
by
SuzyQue
(Remember to think.)
To: massmike
“Mommy, that squash looks like grandma”.
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posted on
04/19/2011 5:51:52 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
To: massmike
To: massmike
Sounds like a sick Redneck joke; ‘You might be a Redneck if your Grandma's grave is not at the cemetery but the County Compost Heap.”
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posted on
04/19/2011 5:55:01 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: massmike
Anything is better than being embalmed, painted and Bondoed, put in a fiberglass casket with a plastic drip pan underneath. Composting might be a great way to go.
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posted on
04/19/2011 5:56:37 PM PDT
by
Sawdring
To: SandRat
Grandma, is that you?
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posted on
04/19/2011 5:57:10 PM PDT
by
massmike
(DADT repeal: the Boy Scouts now have tougher membership requirements than the Army!)
To: massmike
Quiet. Eat your vegetables. ewwwww ... barf ......
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posted on
04/19/2011 5:59:31 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: massmike
My organic gardening friends would have a (free range) cow at the barest hint of meat or meat by-products anywhere near their compost pile....
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posted on
04/19/2011 6:02:26 PM PDT
by
Uncle Ike
(Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
To: massmike
Welcome to obamacare gardens.
Enjoy your stay
To: Sawdring
Exactly. I kinda like the idea of the “green burial,” although even this, being dunked in liquid nitrogen and then mulched, seems too complicated. I want to be wrapped in a shroud and dropped in a hole. Under a tree would be good. And that’s it. No embalming, no box, nothing.
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posted on
04/19/2011 6:04:27 PM PDT
by
Bubba Ho-Tep
("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
To: massmike
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posted on
04/19/2011 6:04:38 PM PDT
by
Califreak
(You can't go swimming in a baseball pool)
To: SuzyQue
This may hurt the Soylent Green supply.
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posted on
04/19/2011 6:06:55 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(I fell asleep during my air traffic controller job interview and still got hired. Cool!)
To: massmike
Swedish green-burial firm to turn frozen corpses in compost Follow the logic.
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posted on
04/19/2011 6:07:43 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on its own.)
To: massmike
Once you get past the eewww! factor, this actually makes quite a bit of sense. I will applaud the result if not the motive.
When looked at from a historical perspective, this is a major step up. Until very recently, people were generally buried in a shroud and the grave was recycled on a regular basis after the body had decomposed.
I will point you to the gravedigger scene in Hamlet from which we get the memorable phrase, "Alas, poor Yorick!"
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
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posted on
04/19/2011 6:15:17 PM PDT
by
LonePalm
(Commander and Chef)
To: massmike
Hum? My husband will be happy. He is always telling me to wrap him in a grass mat, and toss him out in the woods. I always reply, I am not spending the money on the mat.
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posted on
04/19/2011 6:15:21 PM PDT
by
svcw
(Non forgiveness is like holding a hot coal thinking the other person will be blistered)
To: massmike
Anyone want anymore of grandpa's pistachio nuts?
To: massmike
This method gained popularity and even earned her an award from the King of Sweden for her business innovation. She had a dream about the King of Sweden.
He gave her things that she was needin'.
He built her a house made of gold and steel.
A diamond car with platinum wheels.
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posted on
04/19/2011 6:23:56 PM PDT
by
Ken H
To: SuzyQue
I could swear I read about the Swedish fetish for composting
human corpses about a decade ago.
Not surprised that they are still looking for the initial location, it
being Sweden and the EU, after all.
As for it being "environmentally friendly", freezing, dunking in LN2,
and finally zapping with ultrasonics, does seem to be a very
energy intensive process.
Wouldn't a pit, some solar heating, worms, maggots, and a dash of
enzymes accomplish the same thing?
Better yet, a trebuchet, and an active volcano...
To: Calvin Locke
“...and an active volcano...”
But, that would sort of defeat the purpose of compost.
I plan on being cremated. Just to spite anyone who wants to sprinkle me on the carrots and radishes.
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posted on
04/19/2011 6:27:47 PM PDT
by
SuzyQue
(Remember to think.)
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