Posted on 01/18/2021 3:47:24 PM PST by devane617
KLICKITAT COUNTY, Wash. (KOIN) — Walt Patrick slowly rolls a giant wooden spool-shaped cradle back and forth. Inside, a human body is gradually being turned into compost, one of the first licensed “natural organic reductions” to be performed in the entire country.
“This is simply another option at a time when people feel they have no options,” Patrick said. “You know, death has intervened and changed your life forever. How can you do something at least to make it the way you want?”
Patrick is the senior steward at Herland Forest, a natural burial cemetery and nonprofit research center located north of the Columbia River Gorge in Klickitat County. Natural organic reduction (NOR) has given them a second way to return bodies to the land.
“What is the difference between a body turning to earth in a composter, then nourishing the soil, and a body turning to earth buried in a a 6-foot rectangular hole, nourishing the soil? Other than the fact that you are offended by it?”
Bubba, you ain’t figured that out by now? See below:
“Bayard - “Hope none of those were baptized.
The body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and by grace God resided with the entire person who lived. It is not a piece of garbage.
1 Corinthians 6:17-20”
Ruffian - “So Christians don’t decay and rot?
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, doesn’t apply to us?
LOL.”
Thank you, Bayard.
To Ruffian: A devolving (un-Godly) society begins to treat their fellow men as garbage heaps, as they have done with innocent unborn children. There is no respect of life from the living. Remind you of any time in history? This is not about God’s plan and purpose in the natural course of His word. It is about how man treats man and what value is placed upon an individual created in the image of God.”
Washington state, the home of the retarded asswipes, looking for someone to notice their insanity. I hope to never go there again.
>What is the difference between a body turning to earth in a composter, then nourishing the soil, and a body turning to earth buried in a a 6-foot rectangular hole, nourishing the soil? Other than the fact that you are offended by it?<
The difference is that things we respect we put aside to places of respect.
Would you put your favorite tool among the random assortment of those you don’t care for? If you have anything you value, you would treat it with a certain respect, Set it aside.
One example is the American flag, we don’t roll it into a ball and toss it. But far more than an American flag is the grace of God which has saved the human being who is joined to Him. That is owed some respect that is more than common treatment.
This is not helping in the current crisis—The Soylent Green Gap between us and China!
Unles you’re a Trumper
The Columbia river gorge... awesome memories of a once in a lifetime vacation.
There’s some Catholic saints hundreds of years dead that haven’t decayed normally. Pics of them if you look.
When I die I am going to be cremated. Then I got a fellow who is going to fly me over the capital in DC and dump my ashes so they can all look up and kiss my ASS!
Great, now we can turn pesky Grandparents who cost a fortune in assisted living into Miracle-Gro.
Uhm, no, it’s that the body, in life as well as death, should be treated with reverence, not as garbage to be thrown away.
Thank you. We treat animals with more respect today than humans and it’s sick.
Well, for one thing, I won’t have some leftist weirdo playing with my remains for months on end.
Mad Cow Disease on steroids......
IF this is the kind of ‘good’ science we have I definately will refuse the vaccines.
Don’t think ashes are the same as flesh.
Nothing like a massive contamination of the water supply....
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