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.
They will learn that for themselves soon enough.
If that's your concern, you might want to research cemeteries and ground water contamination. There's a fair amount of scientific literature on the subject.
Overall we humans aren’t really very tasty. Sharks don’t eat us, they take a bite and decide we’re too stringy and we tend to put up a fight. Big cats sometimes eat us but that’s rare. Wolves scope us out but tend to keep their distance. Hyenas and dingoes, now they can be trouble.
But on the whole we’re just really not a top item on the menu for predators. Not that they don’t try. But turning us into compost? Interesting. Everyone has some value. Either as compost. Or an organ donor.
You’re welcome and back attcha. What you said is sooooo true!
Fortunately, I don’t share your pagan concerns about the body, being a Christian.
The body is no longer a temple on death.
It’s a nothing. The Holy Spirit and your spirit (well, maybe not yours) has left.
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