Beware of articles like these. They are PR pieces profiling the services of a company. And making it seem like everyone is doing it. and how it is all the rage.
Oregon has legalized human composting
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#92I just want to be cremated and my ashes scattered on moon. IMO it could be a huge business opportunity.
lol what the fuck? if you have all that money do something useful, or at least indulge yourself while you are alive
Paying to have yourself scattered on the moon is indulging yourself while you're alive.
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
This description seems unpleasant, especially the hook part. I expect they need some better description that doesn’t involve people picturing themself or their loved ones being torn up by a hook.
I didn’t even consider that as a possible interpretation. I thought of the hook as a crank to turn the cylinder. But now you have me questioning which is correct?
I personally pictured something similar to the dough hook attachment on my stand mixer
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or a big friggin fresnel lens.
This would be a spectacular way to go! Well, post-go.
Set up one of those thermal solar power plants that are like a sea of mirrors and a tower with a boiler on top, then raise the body in a cage on a winch to the top.
"Head towards the light".
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#95According to Dr. Elaine Ingham, "the compost tea lady", a large compost pile designed to be anaerobic can consume cow carcasses. It does take several months.
>designed to be anaerobic
aerobic - with oxygen
Anaerobic decomposes as well but it is not compost. Anaerobic decomposition is putrefaction and creates the "smell of death"
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
This description seems unpleasant, especially the hook part. I expect they need some better description that doesn’t involve people picturing themself or their loved ones being torn up by a hook.
I didn’t even consider that as a possible interpretation. I thought of the hook as a crank to turn the cylinder. But now you have me questioning which is correct?
This earlier article is less ambiguous,
> Over the next 30 days, naturally-occurring microbes—and a few turnings with a tool similar to a dough hook—break the body down.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93wmd5/the-first-us-funeral-...
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does any of this have to do with prions though? If anything, the emissions are probably worse from a public health perspective.
Cremation will destroy prions. Composting will not. I guess the issue would be with prions from a composting brain getting into food supply. I’m not sure how real of a concern this is as deer with CWD die and decompose and I’m not aware of any transmission in this way.
I was of the impression that Prions are notoriously impervious to heat. They were said to withstand typical disinfecting protocols using an autoclave (250°F for 15-20min). Quick source:
> To destroy a prion it must be denatured to the point that it can no longer cause normal proteins to misfold. Sustained heat for several hours at extremely high temperatures (900°F and above) will reliably destroy a prion.
https://dwr.virginia.gov/wildlife/diseases/cwd/what-are-prio...
I don't know the specific temperature profile of cremation, but I doubt it is sufficient.
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#98Why can't people just opt to be buried without embalming or a casket? Sounds like a nice way to go buried whole and maybe with some sort of tree seed that grows over where you are laid. Not going to lie on a personal level, the composting process sounds terrible.
> Why can't people just opt to be buried
Because this is a huge waste of land.
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#99Recompose, the country’s first human composting funeral home does it like this: a corpse is placed in a cylinder with organic materials, like wood chips, plants, and straw, then heated and turned repeatedly for several weeks with a hook until it’s broken down into a nutrient-rich soil that can be delivered back to the family or used for planting. It's like what the mafia used to do to dissolve bodies
For anyone disturbed by the thought of a body being turned with a hook, consider who that person is since they died.
My perspective is that they’re a memory in whoever remembers. They have lasting impacts to varying degrees. Now they are a collection of elements, much of which supports many other living things. I care that the body is processed in a way towards most ecological reciprocity, whatever that may be for that region of the world.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cremation will destroy prions. Composting will not. I guess the issue would be with prions from a composting brain getting into food supply. I’m not sure how real of a concern this is as deer with CWD die and decompose and I’m not aware of any transmission in this way.
I was of the impression that Prions are notoriously impervious to heat. They were said to withstand typical disinfecting protocols using an autoclave (250°F for 15-20min). Quick source: > To destroy a prion it must be denatured to the point that it can no longer cause normal proteins to misfold. Sustained heat for several hours at extremely high temperatures (900°F and above) will reliably destroy a prion. https://dw…
Cremation actually goes well above that. Cremation happens around 1400-1800F.
https://www.cremationresource.org/cremation/how-is-a-body-cr...