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

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.

[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.

[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

[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

[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.

[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/

[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...