Human Composting

[wctriumph]

https://www.outtherecolorado.com/news/composting-human-bodies-could-soon-become-legal-in-colorado/article_b3876ca8-a9d7-11eb-8db1-47213bca72e4.html?fbclid=IwAR0wQIeGnkZ-AMNjheqqiQWC3K4P2zlr0rb393WH52DI6HD5uJCqUzCt-4Y (https://www.outtherecolorado.com/news/composting-human-bodies-could-soon-become-legal-in-colorado/article_b3876ca8-a9d7-11eb-8db1-47213bca72e4.html?fbclid=IwAR0wQIeGnkZ-AMNjheqqiQWC3K4P2zlr0rb393WH52DI6HD5uJCqUzCt-4Y)

I am not sure how I feel about this. I suppose it is okay as long as forceable retirement is not required. On the way to Soylent Green ...

[Irving]

Why wouldn't we do this? Burial as we know it is only as new as the American Civil War. This is better for the world in general and falls in line with the rest of the hundreds of thousands of years of our history as a species. The only more wasteful use of property beyond a cemetery is probably a golf course.

[buffalobo]

Meh, trivial and expensive.

With the restrictions can't do much with the soil, maybe a flower garden.

Don't environmentalists think flower gardens waste water?

[00tec]

They should plant people in my field. It would do wonders for the wheat

[DFBrews]

I wanna be composted and used to fertilize something pokey and hard to eradicate

[00tec]

I wanna be composted and used to fertilize something pokey and hard to eradicate

Tumbleweeds? Seems like that would be pretty easy to accomplish

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

Why wouldn't we do this? Burial as we know it is only as new as the American Civil War. This is better for the world in general and falls in line with the rest of the hundreds of thousands of years of our history as a species. The only more wasteful use of property beyond a cemetery is probably a golf course.

Uhm, the pyramids? Catacombs in Rome? We've been burying our dead for, well, for ever. Burying the dead is one of those things that makes us human- like cave painting and making beads.

Stuff like prions seem like good enough reason to keep bodies out of the farm cycle as much as we can.

[JohnnyEgo]

Meh. Put me in a plywood box that will rot alongside me, and I'll be just fine. Bonus points if it's the last thing I make for myself with a tracksaw and some Kreg screws.

[eddiememphis]

I have several neighbors I would like to see returned to nature.

There is a place out east on Smith Road that will chop up a body for free.

They sell the usable stuff, incinerate the gunk and return the ashes to the family.

https://www.sciencecare.com/

[Sawin]

I’ve already told my wife to just cremate me. It’s the cheap, easy way to do it.

[theGinsue]

So CO is considering allowing human composting - yet human waste (from the living) can't be used as fertilizer, at least not for food. I can't say I'm against banning human waste as fertilizer, just that we live in a weird world.

[buffalobo]

Tumbleweeds? Seems like that would be pretty easy to accomplishTumbleweed = Russian thistle

[Irving]

Uhm, the pyramids? Catacombs in Rome? We've been burying our dead for, well, for ever. Burying the dead is one of those things that makes us human- like cave painting and making beads.

Stuff like prions seem like good enough reason to keep bodies out of the farm cycle as much as we can.

That was a select few individuals. The vast majority of people that have ever lived probably never even had a grave.

[ChadAmberg]

I have several neighbors I would like to see returned to nature.

There is a place out east on Smith Road that will chop up a body for free.

They sell the usable stuff, incinerate the gunk and return the ashes to the family.

https://www.sciencecare.com/


That's pretty cool. I think I'd like to donate my body to science fiction...

[hollohas]

Why wouldn't we do this? Burial as we know it is only as new as the American Civil War. This is better for the world in general and falls in line with the rest of the hundreds of thousands of years of our history as a species. The only more wasteful use of property beyond a cemetery is probably a golf course.Have you ever been to the northeast? There are cemeteries everywhere with markers dated around the revolution and earlier.

[DFBrews]

That's pretty cool. I think I'd like to donate my body to science fiction...

I like it
Could be as simple as the limits of data storage are reached using silicon chips so server rooms of brains are used instead

[Irving]

Have you ever been to the northeast? There are cemeteries everywhere with markers dated around the revolution and earlier.

I guess I should have specified that embalming and the funeral industry is only as old as the Civil War, not burial.

[Great-Kazoo]

I guess I should have specified that embalming and the funeral industry is only as old as the Civil War, not burial.

Of course. there are cemetery's in the NYC area. That have families in the ground since, well it had people. IIRC , one of the cemetery's in Queens, at some point pulled all the graves. Redug the area, so they could stack the caskets, vertically. Giving more room for the next seasons catch

[Eric P]

Meh. Just proper disposal/recycling of organic material.

[00tec]

Tumbleweed = Russian thistle
I hate you now

Russian death weeds, organic cancer, cartwheeling assholes, would have been perfectly acceptable