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A Project to Turn Corpses Into Compost
New York Times ^ | 4/13/15 | CATRIN EINHORN

Posted on 05/08/2015 2:27:31 PM PDT by Rebelbase

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To: RedStateRocker

I favor planting an apple tree over me. I like to imagine future generations enjoying my legacy . . .


21 posted on 05/08/2015 3:06:19 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth
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To: Rebelbase

How about Mooselimb crpses? Shiite makes good fertilizer.


22 posted on 05/08/2015 3:09:09 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: Rebelbase

“A project to turn corpses into compost”

I always thought that project was already called pushing daisies.


23 posted on 05/08/2015 3:09:47 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Rebelbase

Decomposting


24 posted on 05/08/2015 3:11:24 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
soylent green photo: Soylent Green (recycle people) RecycleSoylentGreen_zps452da212.jpg
25 posted on 05/08/2015 3:11:56 PM PDT by golux
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To: I want the USA back

Very true. My father wanted his ashes scattered in a place that is too distant to visit. I regret not having a place I can visit, and I know my Mother does as well. It’s something I did not foresee.


26 posted on 05/08/2015 3:12:28 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Rebelbase

No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel?

Imperious Caesar, dead and turn’d to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away:
O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,
Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!


27 posted on 05/08/2015 3:12:29 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: RedStateRocker
Waste not, want not. Nothing more stupid than pumping a body full of embalming fluid, entombing it in a piece of finished wood and then burying it; some traditions are just insane.

It's also a very recent tradition. It used to be that the body was buried without a box, or in a plain wood box (which would decompose along with the body once in the ground)

28 posted on 05/08/2015 3:13:37 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: RedStateRocker

I’d like to be sunk in a cloth bag at sea over the Marianas trench.


29 posted on 05/08/2015 3:13:41 PM PDT by golux
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To: I want the USA back

Exactly. And before more modern means of burial, many cemeteries were foul, gruesome places.


30 posted on 05/08/2015 3:14:54 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Rebelbase

Have specified that I be cremated and my ashes be spread in a pine forest.


31 posted on 05/08/2015 3:15:47 PM PDT by upchuck (The current Federal Government is what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. WAKE UP!! Amendment V)
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32 posted on 05/08/2015 3:17:20 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: combat_boots
The guy talked about turning people into green goo and shooting them into space.

It costs $10,000/lb to get to orbit. That would be an expensive "burial".

I think a lot of non-traditional burials are a response to the obscene cost of burial as much as a desire to be "green".

33 posted on 05/08/2015 3:17:55 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Jim from C-Town

I haven’t heard of bodies surfacing except in flood zones.

I’ve heard of the wood casket collapsing and a depression forming in the soil, but you can just top it off with more soil and plant grass.

My family cemetery is not in a flood zone, but the state requires a concrete vault. All I want I a pine box and no vault.

I don’t think funeral homes offer the plain pine box. Nope, it’s particle board - tacky, icky, awful. So people upgrade. Most people, anyway, my mother stuck to her guns and bought the particle board coffin for her mother.


34 posted on 05/08/2015 3:18:32 PM PDT by heartwood
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To: Rebelbase

Katarina Spade’s financial backer, Antonio “Tony Greeneco” Tesataverde said, “Yeah, Compostin’. Dat’s what we call it. Yous gotta prolem wid dat?”


35 posted on 05/08/2015 3:20:50 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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36 posted on 05/08/2015 3:21:54 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Rebelbase
I paid $3.50 a bag for mushroom compost this afternoon. I wonder what a bag of human compost will cost?

Would it be just as good for my rhubarb?

37 posted on 05/08/2015 3:26:03 PM PDT by Gritty (The more we submit to violent jihadi intimidation, the more we are going to get-Robert Spencer)
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To: upchuck
Pine forest - study by MittMac

38 posted on 05/08/2015 3:34:26 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: heartwood

Make your own or have someone make it for you. I had seen some beautiful home made pine boxes. If buried within 24 hours you do not have to be embalmed. A vault is required at my families cemetery. I plan doing it the old way with coffin and vault. Buried on my back with my head facing west along with all my other ancestors. So as it says when he comes from the east and the dead shall arise etc. I am just too traditional. I am from the South where Decoration Day is still a thing to attend. Plus the cemetery bears my family name as it was started back in the day.


39 posted on 05/08/2015 3:37:58 PM PDT by therut
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To: proxy_user

The bard?


40 posted on 05/08/2015 3:47:42 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it ! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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