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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Thank you for not letting me down.
I saw this headline and immediately thought of soylent green, and was hoping someone posted it quickly.
*hat tip*
I won’t be signing up for this, but what happens to my body after I leave it isn’t really too much concern for my soul has moved on.
This idea is all kinds of weird and morbid though.
Yes.
You want a viking funeral?
Are you completely insane!?
With the prices of lumber, you’re going to build a boat, and then burn it? Jeepers! That’s a good way to go through a few million heh.
Well, I’m not 50, I have a ways to go, but I thought that was common knowledge heh.
The “White Supremacist Hierarchy”, and all its followers.. you know, you and me, will be invited to volunteer for such composting. We will either become “Soylent Beige” or fill in for the “new garden of diversity”, that will be built over our compost retirement home. Nice.
Even in a sealed concrete tomb, after enough time passes, there isn’t going to be much left.
I want to be cremated on a pyre of 1000 car tires and the video sent to Greta Thunberg.
What of people who die in a fire, their bodies being completely consumed by the intense heat and flames such as some who died in the towers on 9/11? Or what about people who drown in a sinking at sea like the Titanic, or the men who lost their lives and are/were entombed on the USS Arizona at Pearl?
Are you saying that since they can’t be Resurrected in anything but a desiccated embalmed Body, they are SOL?
What about all the blood that was drained out and replaced by embalming fluid. Are you going to be reunited with your blood at some later date?
As I learned when I watched a documentary on the discovery of the Titanic, when someone asked, “Where are all the bodies, the skeletons?” The answer was that in most cases, the remains of any human still on board when the ship went down or of those who drown and sunk to the bottom never having been rescued, have long since decayed and been consumed by microbes and sea creatures, the corrosive nature of the ocean water having even liquified the bones.
While there is some speculation that bits of bone may be found in the shoes scattered about the wreck site or under the few remnants of clothes if the bodies sunk deep enough in the mud on the sea floor, they are fragments, not whole bodies.
FWIW, eventually, after a long enough time has passed, even the embalmed in their expensive coffins, even the ones with the liners and vaults will eventually decay.
“Eight. Embalming isn’t the “Traditional Funeral”.
“We didn’t do the whole arterial embalming thing until the mid-1800s. Before that it was all natural and dirt and fire and other things. The “traditional funeral” is actually rather non-traditional when you consider the sum history of Homo sapiens.”
https://www.calebwilde.com/2013/10/ten-things-about-embalming/
I don’t think it’s sacrilegious.
What’s sacrilegious is putting dead people in $10 000 boxes.
Do you not believe in the Resurrection of the Body?
When my daughters gerbil died, I threatened to put it in a toy boat and light it on fire in the neighbors pool.
Didn’t go over too well, that idea
No more than normal burial.
My plan is for cremation and ashes to be spread along my favorite scenic road from a Porsche at 110 mph.
Do you believe that the Resurrection of the Body requires a perfectly embalmed and artificially preserved body, a physical body preserved by chemicals and by methods that have only been around for a around century and a half or so? Or does it mean something more spiritual rather than physical?
Do you think that someone whose body was consumed by fire or decayed by other means is SOL?
I’m not givin up on the good Lord raising me up in the flesh on that great ( or terrible, up to you) day!
Do any of these woke geniuses know how the cancer cells or related chemo or radiation will affect the end product, the vegetation grown in it, or the water table?
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