Posted on 01/18/2021 3:47:24 PM PST by devane617
KLICKITAT COUNTY, Wash. (KOIN) — Walt Patrick slowly rolls a giant wooden spool-shaped cradle back and forth. Inside, a human body is gradually being turned into compost, one of the first licensed “natural organic reductions” to be performed in the entire country.
“This is simply another option at a time when people feel they have no options,” Patrick said. “You know, death has intervened and changed your life forever. How can you do something at least to make it the way you want?”
Patrick is the senior steward at Herland Forest, a natural burial cemetery and nonprofit research center located north of the Columbia River Gorge in Klickitat County. Natural organic reduction (NOR) has given them a second way to return bodies to the land.
He’s following an old communist tradition. Soviet farmers were directed to plant cabbage over the mass burial sites of Stalin’s victims. They knew they would get a bumper crop for a couple of years.
Hey I watched that just the other night! TO SERVE MAN. Twilight Zone.
They’re going to let me die a natural death first, right? Right?
Of course not, Christians decay all the time.
Boy you don’t know the difference between respecting a body by burying it in a place set aside for respect and throwing it into a refuse pile?
So let’s drain all the fluids from the body, pump it full of chemicals, seal it in an expensive metal box, and then bury the box.
Honestly, after my first choice of a Viking funeral where I’m set adrift on a burning longship with all my goods around me and maidens singing of my exploits, my second choice is to be wrapped naked in a linen shroud, dropped in a hole, and a tree planted on top.
Hey Pelosi
Nothing new.
The bones of soldiers killed in Europe were ground up, shipped to England, and used as fertilizer—including the bones of English soldiers.
https://medium.com/study-of-history/the-bones-of-waterloo-a3beb35254a3
See...a Viking funeral actually is more respectful than throwing a body into a trash heep.
There is a difference and it matters.
Asking for a friend?
“Soylent Green is people”—1973 film starring Charlton Heston.
Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies!
Bayard - “Hope none of those were baptized.
The body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and by grace God resided with the entire person who lived. It is not a piece of garbage.
1 Corinthians 6:17-20”
Ruffian - “So Christians don’t decay and rot?
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, doesn’t apply to us?
LOL.”
Thank you, Bayard.
To Ruffian: A devolving (un-Godly) society begins to treat their fellow men as garbage heaps, as they have done with innocent unborn children. There is no respect of life from the living. Remind you of any time in history? This is not about God’s plan and purpose in the natural course of His word. It is about how man treats man and what value is placed upon an individual created in the image of God.
Perhaps they are doing this to have a convenient way to dispose of sacrificial victims. Both are in Klickitat County, here is a link to the article on Maryhill Stonehenge:
https://smalltownwashington.com/maryhill-stonehenge/
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“Who Created Maryhill Stonehenge?
While the history behind the original Stonehenge is not so clear, the story behind Maryhill Stonehenge is a bit more obvious.
This beautiful Washington monument was created by Sam Hill, a visionary, philanthropist, businessman, and builder. He built this monument in 1918 to the size and dimensions of the original Stonehenge, finally completing the project in 1929.
This Stonehenge wasn’t made to be used as an astronomical calendar, even though the altar stone is fixed to the astronomical horizon, which gives it a few degrees difference from the original.
Rather, Maryhill Stonehenge is actually a war memorial dedicated to the servicemen of Klickitat County who perished in WWI. In fact, it was the first WWI memorial built in the United States.
At the time the Stonehenge in Maryhill was built, the theory behind the original Stonehenge was that it was a sacrificial spot. With that in mind, . . . “ . . .
Holy Jesus Christ... literally, not in blasphemy.
The left is truly a death cult. They love this kind of macabre crap. This is like a sacrament to them.
What is the difference between a body turning to earth in a composter, then nourishing the soil, and a body turning to earth buried in a a 6-foot rectangular hole, nourishing the soil? Other than the fact that you are offended by it?
Well, maybe it’s not as idolatrous as cremation.
If I cared even the slightest bit what happens to my body after I’m through with it, I’d request that it be be ground up and tilled into a garden plot. Then plant lots of good hot peppers.
Its a sad statement.
If you want to look historically what Christians did that was very significantly different than the practices of pagan world around them, you can go to the 1st, 2nd century catacombs.
Christians were noted for not cremating remains, but for putting their dead into underground niche’s under the city of Rome and elsewhere.
The difference is Christians expected that Christ would come again and raise the dead to life restoring the remains to perfection if they were to enter heaven.
Christians respected the body because it was the house of God’s grace. Christians are not duelists, thinking only the spirit goes to heaven and that the Body is evil. You are a Body and a Soul, not a Soul that has a Body.
I’ve often seen the parallel in our growing atheistic society and practices like body mods, obscene tattoos, the trans movement, ect. The Transsexual movement is a notable example of dualism, because they think themselves to be another gender “trapped” inside the wrong sex body.
Kinda gives new meaning to that song: "Roll me over in the clover..."
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