Posted on 06/17/2021 1:02:50 PM PDT by Marchmain
At the age of 50, Nina Schoen expects to have a long life ahead of her, but the Seattle-based project manager has thought a lot about death - and why people are so reluctant to talk about it: "It's going to happen to all of us," she says, "but it should be a more positive experience than the fear we infuse into it."
When she first heard about a new end-of life process that turns the body into compost, "I was really moved by the idea. It just felt right," says Schoen, who became one of the first to reserve a spot with a Seattle-based company called Recompose, the country's first funeral home to offer human composting.
"I love the idea of helping other life," says Schoen. "Is it a tree? A flower? Whatever - go thrive. I'll have had my turn. After my death, it's their turn."
Last year Recompose began transforming bodies to soil, after Washington became the first state to legalize the practice of human composting, more formally known as natural organic reduction. Before that, end-of-life options in the U.S. were limited to burial or cremation, both of which come with environmental costs - U.S. cremations alone dump 1.7 billion pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year.
This spring, Colorado and Oregon have followed suit with laws legalizing composting human remains, and bills look likely to pass later this year in New York and California. Pioneering the composting movement is Recompose founder Katrina Spade, who has spent a decade developing the process and who is leading the push to legalize it in hopes of offering people a greener option for death care.
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Might be against some religions. Others no. Jew aren’t supposed to embalm, so this would probably be OK. Really we’re too precious about dead body storage. Take up a lot of real estate for a spot that in 20 years or so nobody will ever go back to.
Why would it be sacrilegious? Wasn’t it God who designed our bodies to decay when we die?
The Cultural Marxists have never found a hideously degenerate act that they didn’t love.
Anyways, George's neighbors said that George always had the best tomatoes...
Agreed!
"Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust."
"By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."
Should be...
Rejoin the cycle quick like.
EVERTHANG rejoins the natural cycle.
Formaldehyde, burial vaults, coffins, caskets etc.... makes the process longer but the outcome is the same. Dust to dust and all that.
The atoms and energy remain floating around the Cosmos and overtime where would they end up?
What if....
2022 is the year of Soylent Green.
I see lots of people walking around who are starting early.
Half the Congress is way ahead of the game......
It is gross, disgusting, and a liberal idea.
Liberals are nothing but smelly hippies.
“Isn’t this sacrilegious?”
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100%. We are to believe in the Resurrection of the Body. Doing this would be in total defiance of that belief.
I thought those were called body farms, and are used to help train forensic pathologists on body decomposition and the life cycle of bugs and what not.
ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan, which moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Probably no more so than cremation. As long as we're talking recycling mortal coils, Sky Burial, Lakota style, would achieve the same aim and feed some critters. Posting remains to rot on a platform in your backyard might not go over too well in the suburbs, though.
Isn't this a play on how the Chinese make 'bone china'... or is that just a rumor?
"For dust you are, And to dust you shall return." Gen 3:19
“In the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread,Too bad the first line isn't so true anymore.
Till though return unto the ground;
For out of it wast thou taken:
For dust thou art,
And unto dust shalt thou return”
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