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Don't bury or cremate – soon you may compost your corpse

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Re: Don't bury or cremate – soon you may compost your corpse

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Post by SmileyRedBall »

NeedMoreTea wrote: post #20
tr33house wrote: post #2

While composting has a lot of benefits, I would be very sad to attend a friend's burial if they were to be composted. Feels like a disrespectful way to let someone go. I'm also concerned about disease transmission. Cows' diseases may not necessarily affect us but humans' certainly will. The need to disinfect kinda defeats the purpose (pollution with chemicals) Hope about we just compost other things and let human bod…

What if your friend sees no value in their body after they're done with it and wants to be composted? Perhaps they found it the least impactful way to go. Wouldn't respecting their wishes seem more important?

@NeedMoreTea: “What if your friend sees no value in their body after they're done with it” ..

Yea, why not just dip the corpse in silicone epoxy, mount it on a plinth and put it on display. Oh wait, someone else has already thought of that.

https://bodyworlds.com/city/london/

“The first Matrix I designed was .. [a] monumental failure .. Thus, I redesigned it based on your history to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of your nature.”

Re: Don't bury or cremate – soon you may compost your corpse

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Post by refurb »

whatshisface wrote: post #34

People are long-lived apex predators, wouldn't this have a heavy metal problem? Tuna and other apex predators tend to be dangerous to eat due to the buildup of pollutants inside them, and they don't live nearly as long or eat nearly as much as a human.

Heavy metal accumulation is due to what the fish eat - filter feeders that concentrate metals.

Our diet is much more varied.

Re: Don't bury or cremate – soon you may compost your corpse

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Post by praptak »

refurb wrote: post #53
whatshisface wrote: post #34

People are long-lived apex predators, wouldn't this have a heavy metal problem? Tuna and other apex predators tend to be dangerous to eat due to the buildup of pollutants inside them, and they don't live nearly as long or eat nearly as much as a human.

Heavy metal accumulation is due to what the fish eat - filter feeders that concentrate metals. Our diet is much more varied.

There's lead from dental fillings though.

Re: Don't bury or cremate – soon you may compost your corpse

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Post by refurb »

praptak wrote: post #54
refurb wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heavy metal accumulation is due to what the fish eat - filter feeders that concentrate metals. Our diet is much more varied.

There's lead from dental fillings though.

Mercury? There is no lead in dental filings. In fact, filings are mercury free as of the last couple of decades.

Re: Don't bury or cremate – soon you may compost your corpse

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Post by 481092 »

SmileyRedBall wrote: post #41
spinach wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it's particularly disrespectful, isn't all that's needed a change of perspective? What makes it disrespectful, precisely? The common method of embalming in North America seems more disrespectful - pumping a body full of chemicals that weren't there in the first place and helping to pollute the earth.

@spinach: “I don't think it's particularly disrespectful, isn't all that's needed a change of perspective? What makes it disrespectful, precisely?” Your processor's all fucked up, your information tray is jammed. Personally, I'd feel a little queasy eating strawberries from my own garden fertilized with my dear ole gran. To reduce the cadaver into compost would totally disrespect such shared memories as were had with…

Those strawberries were your aunt before she was born. Did you know strawberries and other foods go into producing humans? And when we die we, if given a natural death, we can go into producing foods again? It's always been that way. If you want to make the argument that @spinach's view is poisoned by futurism, you ought to take a look at yours which I'd argue is poisoned by modernity. You are the earth, you are of this earth and you'll go back into this earth eventually unless you opt for some expensive astro-death where you'll eventually land into some other material planet into that dirt. And shared memories are immaterial, detached from that person once they die. That's the beauty of those memories, that's what makes them special, the fleeting moments in the nows and thens knowing none of this will last forever. I get that it may make you nauseous as it does me to some extent but OP's view is far from "fucked up".

Re: Don't bury or cremate – soon you may compost your corpse

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Post by praptak »

refurb wrote: post #55
praptak wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's lead from dental fillings though.

Mercury? There is no lead in dental filings. In fact, filings are mercury free as of the last couple of decades.

I think lead was used in dental amalgams but I don't know when it was phased out. But yeah, mercury too.

Re: Don't bury or cremate – soon you may compost your corpse

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Post by bregma »

whatshisface wrote: post #34

People are long-lived apex predators, wouldn't this have a heavy metal problem? Tuna and other apex predators tend to be dangerous to eat due to the buildup of pollutants inside them, and they don't live nearly as long or eat nearly as much as a human.

Long pig is so delicious, but now you've made me afraid to keep eating it.
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