These comments are so depressing. I really hope that we'll figure out a way to reverse aging in the coming decades so death becomes optional.
Oregon has legalized human composting
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#182Why 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.
Enbalming isn't universal; AFAIK it's forbidden, or at least discouraged, in Judaism and Islam, say. Coffins also aren't universal (but can be made biodegradable, anyway)
Interestingly, though modern Jewish practice is to prohibit embalming, Joseph had Jacob embalmed in Genesis 50:2
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#183My mother passed away a few weeks ago. It was her wish to go with Recompose. She was a master gardener, and to her, the idea of returning to the ecosystem was so much better than cremation or a cemetery. Through Recompose, her 'soil' will be donated to a reforesting project. As you can imagine, I've ruminated a lot on this lately. What's the purpose of a tombstone, or a plaque, or an urn full of ashes? To memorialize…
For one, tombstone cannot lead to prion desease.
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This is a solved problem! My startup is building modern, cutting-edge catacombs where we're redefining what it means to have a huge, underground maze full of decomposing human heads.
Great! Legacy underground mazes full of decomposing human heads are such a pain.
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>> fuel oil (0.8 US gallons) > eco-friendly For people who drove cars.. mostly a (once-in-a-lifetime) symbolical gesture.
It's more gallons than I'll probably use in my lifetime - I've driven maybe five miles in total when debating going for a drivers test and I'm now in my mid-thirties.
if you only count the amount you have driven in the drivers seat sure, but you have used far far more. You were inevitably a passenger be it in a car, bus train, plane, ship, etc... then there is the fuel used to transport everything you have ever bought. Starting with raw material extraction involving heavy machinery and then at each point on from there in transit between factories and warehouses until it ends up as a finished product at the store or delivered to your door. every step involved a internal combustion engine burning hydrocarbons.
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Hey dang, I don't actually understand what the above poster did wrong or why they were downvoted so heavily or why you felt the need to personally reprimand them. Not saying you or anyone else is wrong for doing so, but I feel like something must be going over my head. Can you enlighten me?
It wasn't a deep move, just a standard response to an unsubstantive comment, perhaps with a small multiplier for subject matter. If that still doesn't make sense I'm happy to call it a misfire.
Fair enough. I personally found it a macabre and funny yet unoffensive little quip - something to bring a bit of harmless levity to a fairly sober context. It made me chuckle anyway.
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That's usually how Muslims do it. Though we usually use very simple wooden caskets to ease transportation and handling . We usually also bury the corpse 24h or less after death, since we traditionally couldn't preserve it ( though refrigeration made that possible without embalming)
Interesting how jews have this too. I wonder where this practice came from.
That's interesting, I didn't know we had that in common. Islam takes a lot from Judaism so I guess it shouldn't be surprising. If I had to guess about why it needs to be so fast though, it is probably not a good idea to not bury someone very very quickly in the middle east. As for the very simple caskets, in Islam it is because we are supposed to be all equal in death so going with expensive tombstones or caskets would be very frowned upon. That's why a Muslim cemetery is usually very "minimalistic" and the tombstones very simple.
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#188I actually find anti-decay measures applied to corpses disgusting. I feel like corpses should be buried raw right into soil or in plain wood coffins at max, not marinated in formaldehyde and put in non-compostable coffins.
I have a hard time with this too. For a long time my preferred burial would be wrapping me in a blanket and burying me somewhere in the woods. I know it's not practical, but certainly a nicer thought than pumping me full of preservatives and locking me into a $10K sarcophagus.
Let the earth eat me when I die.
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#189I 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
there are folks who pay to convert their ashes into diamonds, maybe I'll do both 'cause y'er not the boss of me.
but seriously if someone has money for something like this how do you judge that they did not live their life fully? at least its better than taking up permanent real estate in a cemetery.
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#190?? Why not just do sky burial.