[Salvation]

Monsignor Pope Ping!

[defconw]

I wish Monsignor would join FR. I have a question for him. My husband wishes to be cremated and I am undecided about myself. I wonder if it would be permissible to bury me with his ashes, if he goes first? I've talked him out of being scattered.

[Georgia Girl 2]

No thanks I’m going in the ground. :-)

[GreyFriar]

And instead of cremation, how about composting? (no I’m NOT endorsing this.)

the story begins:

Corpses could soon be turned into compost and used as plant food if a radical new plan to offer a new way to bury the dead succeeds.

Called the Urban Death Project, it proposes corpses are placed into a giant tower by families and left to decompose.

After six weeks, their body will have broken down into compost, which is them given to the grieving families as well as spread in national parks

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3002964/Corpse-compost-Seattle-firm-campaigning-allow-human-plant-food-added-ways-dispose-body.html#ixzz3UsAJgqDr
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