Posted on 05/10/2016 6:22:44 AM PDT by C19fan
“I had this epiphany as a thirty-something, that I was going to die someday,” says Seattle-based architect Katrina Spade. As she watched her children, (then 2 and 5 years old) grow up day to day, she thought about a time when they would be 40 years old. And that she would be 70. And that she would eventually die.
She began to look into the options we have for our corpses when we die, and the spaces and rituals associated with them: hardwood caskets, concrete vaults in the ground, carbon-emitting cremation, formaldehyde embalming, claiming a piece of real estate in the Earth as your own for eternity.
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Are you sure that isn’t bill nye?
Its ok, just take it out of my SS :)
In the Dune series of Sci-Fi novels, Bene Gesserits who die on their home world are buried vertically in a hole where a fruit tree is then planted...................
This is not new stuff. Both my parents wanted cremation. Cost me $600 for my dad's cremation and cardboard urn-box, because it was cheaper. About the same for my mom. They didn't want me to spend all of their money burying them.
My wife's family, on the other hand, spent over $12,000 to bury her step-dad, who everyone in the family hated. They look back now and regret spending so much money to bury the SOB.
even better, plant me under the big oak, all this hand wringing is silly.
Most normal people have that particular epiphany around age 5 or 6.
Why do the progressives proposing these ideas always look the same (gay, demented, or both)
Nailed it. Peewee Hernan came to mnd immediately when I saw the pic...
Wait, we already have DeathCare. Most people call it ObamaCare.
I’m way ahead of her. As a Marine, I’m entitled to burial at sea. I’ll be fish food and it’ll be better than rotting in the ground.
Why doesn’t this loser just donate her body to the forensic body farm in the South (TN? KY? forget exactly which)? Then she can fulfill all her fantasies of just decomposing naturally in the wilderness while actually being useful to science.
Never mind standard medical cadaver donations.
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
Traditional
“O bury me not on the lone prairie.”
These words came low and mournfully
From the pallid lips of the youth who lay
On his dying bed at the close of day
He had wasted and pined ‘til o’er his brow
Death’s shades were slowly gathering now
He thought of home and loved ones nigh
As the cowboys gathered to see him die
“O bury me not on the lone prairie
Where coyotes howl and the wind blows free
In a narrow grave just six by three—
O bury me not on the lone prairie”
“It matters not, I’ve been told
Where the body lies when the heart grows cold
Yet grant, o grant, this wish to me
O bury me not on the lone prairie.”
“I’ve always wished to be laid when I died
In a little churchyard on the green hillside
By my father’s grave, there let me be
O bury me not on the lone prairie.”
“I wish to lie where a mother’s prayer
And a sister’s tear will mingle there
Where friends can come and weep o’er me
O bury me not on the lone prairie.”
“For there’s another whose tears will shed
For the one who lies in a prairie bed
It breaks me heart to think of her now
She has curled these locks, she has kissed this brow.”
“O bury me not...” And his voice failed there
But they took no heed to his dying prayer
In a narrow grave, just six by three
They buried him there on the lone prairie
And the cowboys now as they roam the plain
For they marked the spot where his bones were lain
Fling a handful o’ roses o’er his grave
With a prayer to God his soul to save
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF1KRnkKNlc
Pee Wee Herman!
She looks less suspicious in the article here.
I’m guessing she minored in recyclable carpet use.
exactly!!
Is it a she? a he? an it?
Human burial practices exist for several reasons, not the least of which is for sanitary purposes.
Another reason, and a good one, is the gravestone, which allows people to have a place to go to remember the dead one, and to pay tribute.
This has happened in Europe a long time. At least, not keeping bodies permanently. In England some places have long been bringing up bodies and only keeping the skulls for remembrance.
But of course, hippie wants more. Just plain wasting away is her preference - or to be used for fertilizer.
Why not turn human skin into lamp shades? Oh, wait, the Nazis already did that with dead Jews.
I am glad you said that and I didn’t
Well. Sometimes you just can’t hide or overlook the obvious outright look of effing crazy - pervert to boot.
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