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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

It is a startling next step in the natural burial movement. Even as more people opt for interment in simple shrouds or biodegradable caskets, urban cemeteries continue to fill up. For the environmentally conscious, cremation is a problematic option, as the process releases greenhouse gases.

Armed with a prestigious environmental fellowship, Katrina Spade, a 37-year-old Seattle resident with a degree in architecture, has proposed an alternative: a facility for human composting.

The idea is attracting interest from environmental advocates and scientists. The woman laid to rest in wood chips is a first step in testing how it would work.

“Composting makes people think of banana peels and coffee grounds,” Ms. Spade said. But “our bodies have nutrients. What if we could grow new life after we’ve died?”

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To: Rebelbase
Each human composting would cost about $2,500, a fraction of the price of conventional burial, Ms. Spade estimates.

I'll do it for you for $2000. I already compost everything else, why not you? My roses will enjoy the extra food.

41 posted on 05/08/2015 3:53:15 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Rebelbase

Bring out your dead.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs


42 posted on 05/08/2015 4:10:42 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: KarlInOhio
Do these cretins realize how much that process STINKS?

Imagine decaying vegetation mixed with putrefying animal, it`s a wholly indescribable smell!

So the family will carry the corpse into the composting building, once, and they`ll NEVER do this process to another person again! At least not placing the body.

43 posted on 05/08/2015 4:13:05 PM PDT by nomad
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To: Rebelbase

Soil-ent Green.


44 posted on 05/08/2015 4:14:52 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Rebelbase
I never understood the fancy casket thing.
I instructed my wife to get me the cheapest possible cardboard box and cremate. Done.

45 posted on 05/08/2015 4:53:16 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Rebelbase
Normally I would say compost my body when I die then put the remains in your vegetable garden but given my luck with tomatoes, you'd be better off just scattering me somewhere......
46 posted on 05/08/2015 4:54:55 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (November 2016 shall be set aside as rodent removal month.)
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To: Rebelbase

That’s gonna stink.


47 posted on 05/08/2015 5:02:24 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: therut

My very extended family does Decoration Day about three weeks before the family reunion for the closer relatives I go to. And as I am 700 miles away from North Carolina I always miss it. But some day I want to go.


48 posted on 05/08/2015 5:14:54 PM PDT by heartwood
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49 posted on 05/08/2015 5:17:32 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: PapaBear3625

The modern practice of embalming began IIRC during the Civil War when railroads made it possible to transport bodies of the fallen brave back to their families & hometowns for local burial. Graves registration in the midst of any war is problematic.

On the Day of Resurrection the Earth and the sea shall yield up their dead and the resurrected ones shall be gifted with glorified bodies impervious to disease or corruption.

As for me, when I die I want my remains cremated and the ashes flung into Bill Clinton’s face since Ted Kennedy is already dead.

;^)


50 posted on 05/08/2015 5:26:14 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("I am a free man, O Muslim. There's nothing you can do about it.")
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To: KarlInOhio

To #8. THe picture looks like the GOP in Congress. DOA!


51 posted on 05/08/2015 6:27:21 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (madmax)
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To: ETL

That’s the general idea, thank you.

I live in a pine forest now and it’s so peaceful here I decided I’d like to stay here forever.


52 posted on 05/08/2015 6:30:47 PM PDT by upchuck (The current Federal Government is what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. WAKE UP!! Amendment V)
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To: Rebelbase

Egads... Blech.

I once had the perhaps romantic thought that someday I’d be cremated and then scattered off the dock (of our long time family beach place) onto the sandy bottom, which since it goes dry at low tide means that I’d just become part of the sand and maybe years from now kids will be making little sand castles out of me.

It sounded cute until my dear uncle died, and he requested that same basic thing...and his kids dutifully complied and dumped his ashes off the dock one day.

As it turns out, human ashes are far denser and heavier than I’d ever thought. There, a foot or so away from the dock on the beach at low tide, was a little grey mound of Dear Uncle... For MONTHS. Nobody had the heart to do anything with it or about it, so there it sat. For a long time. It was... weird. Kinda spoiled the idea for me.


53 posted on 05/08/2015 6:50:56 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: Rebelbase
A Project to Turn Corpses Into Compost

Uh, Isn't that exactly what happens naturally?

54 posted on 05/08/2015 7:00:36 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Red Badger

—and we have plenty of turkey buzzards left , to—


55 posted on 05/08/2015 7:03:49 PM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: Ramius

I told my kids to cremate me and toss my ashes in the river. That way everyone in the town downstream will get molecules of me here and there via the water intake.


56 posted on 05/08/2015 7:44:24 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

They’re going to look like s-— on Judgment Day...


57 posted on 05/08/2015 8:00:07 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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