The bigger the carbon footprint, the better.
Georgia? I thought those nitwits were confined to the land of fruits and nuts?
Well what’s wrong with leaving the old hippie’s bodies out for the coyotes and other predators? Recycling and returning to the ecosystem and all that...
Can you imagine the wild dogs running around this disaster area??
“Oh, look, honey, that dog has a ham bone in its mouth. Uh, that’s not a ham bone!!!”
good grief, how do these politicians think their ancestors were buried? This sounds like a full-employment plan for the funeral home industry. My body is going to a medical school, and after they’re finished with me they can do whatever they want with what’s left. When I get around to telling them, my family will be given instructions NOT to spend a nickel on a fancy funeral. I can’t control whether they’ll comply, but those are my wishes.
It’s not too bright to buy all this land and charge forward with this business plan unless you secure zoning and land use approval as the first step, not the last.
The funeral indu$try won't like it, though.
..not that there is anything wrong with that..
You don't have to be hippie to not want to spend a fortune on useless preservation.
My (new) body might last for eternity, but no amount of money is going to stop my mortal remains from returning to the elements after I die.
Actually, this is perfectly sensible and is exactly how most of our ancestors buried their dead. The massive industry surrounding funerals and burials, with all these expensive trappings, is driven by industry lobbying and marketing, not common sense.
I’m not sure I get the problem for the Greenies. What’s “ungreen” about a leak-proof vault? As far as I’m concerned, they can be buried in a cardboard box, as long as there’s a vault around it.
The bigger the carbon footprint, the better.
I vote for a Viking Burial. Would put the “Fun” in Funeral. Dunno how “green” they are, though.
If this is going to become popular, I suggest that when you bury Uncle Charley, “the old hippie,” you get him underground PDQ. If you think he smelled kinda gamy while
he was alive . . .
Hmmm, I always wanted my friends to hire a drift fishing boat for the day, attach a wood chipper to the stern, put me on ice with the beer and bait and hang out with their chum one last time!
It makes a lot more sense to do like natural history museums do to animal cadavers, who use insects to clean the bones of animals before displaying them.
It makes a lot more sense than using, and possibly polluting, a whole bunch of land, or using up a heck of a lot of fuel for cremation, along with the exorbitant price of embalming and coffins.
Afterward, there would just be clean, dry bones, that would take up a fraction of the space, or could be easily incinerated for ashes, and artificial parts. The dead insects could be used as fertilizer.
If it has any “ick” factor, it is not as bad as burial, which does much the same thing, but slower and with nastier insects.
I am truly coming to *hate* this bizzare cult. If they can see an environmental issue in EVERYTHING we do,, why cant i see America hating and communism in every thing they do?
They picked an odd place to promote this idea — back in 1993 (IIRC) there was one heck of a flood that ran the Ocmulgee River over I-16 and coffins from Riverside Cemetery were popping out of the ground and floating downstream. I imagine that the folks in Macon don’t want to hear about any “innovative ideas” about burying folks.