Do You Think Human Bodies Should Be Used As Fertilizer?

It is happening in certain parts of the world. Makes sense, as it will decompose. Less burial sites too. Too many graves taking up too much space.

I see on Google that every year we are burying 90,000 tons of steel caskets, 14,000 tons of steel vaults, 2700 tons of copper and bronze caskets, 1,636,000 tons of reinforced concrete, and some 800,000 gallons of embalming fluid, mostly formaldehyde which destroys microbial life in the soil.

Thoughts?

 

I dont agree with the modern, western burial at all. Its horrible for the environment. However, humans are pretty toxic creatures so I'm not sure if we would make the best fertilizer, as far as planting a food source right over where humans are buried.

there are a few "green" cemeteries in the US where humans are basically thrown into the ground with no embalming or anything.

 

It does make sense to bury a person in its natural state. It will decompose and become part of the earth, plant a tree right over it. Moms apples, she sure tastes delicious.

 

best burials. frozen in liquid nitrogen, shattered into a million pieces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promession

 

I agree with letting humans openly decompose in a field and studying the different stages of decomposition.....human fertilizer though..not too sure about that.

 

Set me down, under my favorite tree in the woods... Let the Goddess smile down upon me and take my soul home again.


There won't be much left in a month... and the tree will grow all the more.

 

I put my dads ashes in a hole in the ground and planted an Oak tree in the hole. My kids call that tree Grandfather Tree.

 

how about being preserved cryogenically roght before death. when its sure that a person is near death, put them in a state of suspended animation until the technology exists to cure them. one day death will be conquered.

 

Red Sox legend Ted Williams was cryogenically preserved which led me to write this top ten list

[SIZE=11pt]Top Ten Interesting Facts about Ted Williams [/SIZE]



[SIZE=11pt]10) His current batting average is minus 400[/SIZE]


[SIZE=11pt]9) His casket comes equipped with a cold water dispenser[/SIZE]


[SIZE=11pt]8) Several guests who attended the wake experienced hypothermia[/SIZE]


[SIZE=11pt]7) Glaciologists are intrigued over the possibility of retrieving ice cores[/SIZE]


[SIZE=11pt]6) His cryonic suspension was upheld by the players union[/SIZE]


[SIZE=11pt]5) Batman’s Mr. Freeze presided over the last rites[/SIZE]


[SIZE=11pt]4) He once took first place at an Ice sculpture contest[/SIZE]


[SIZE=11pt]3) On Memorial Day Instead of placing flowers -- The Williams' family[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Hires a Zamboni [/SIZE]

[SIZE=11pt]2) His favorite song 'Cold as Ice'[/SIZE]


[SIZE=11pt]1) [/SIZE][SIZE=11pt]Global warming will likely lead to his demise[/SIZE]


[SIZE=11pt]Hotwater[/SIZE]

 

in nature's way, in nature's time. i don't think our bodies are any more special then those of any other life form.

everything with a cerebral cortex experiences every emotional state we do, and are just as diversely individual.

the only thing special about us it our desire to be creative, which has resulted in surrounding ourselves with our artifacts,
to such a degree, as to then be able to imagine ourselves somehow a thing apart.

many cultures, have just as rightfully as any other, considered it the sacred thing, to return one's substance to earth
(which it will eventually anyway)

i don't like watching dead things decay. stick them someplace i won't have to stumble over them.

but just in a hole in the ground without all the fancy box and everything.

what i leave behind, i really don't see how that has anything to do with me.

the condors and the jackals are welcome to it, and the berry bushes and the trees.

the flys and their larvae seem to be happy.

 

I think that cause of death might also be a factor in this being applied. There are many diseases that are not what we want in our food cycle and there are many toxins in bodies that likewise would not be something we want to possibly ingest.

I can hear the funeral industry lobbying now. Many do little to inform clients families about green alternatives and the laws that have changed. People tend to go with familiar as they do not know of alternatives.

Personally I feel that cremation is probably the best options not only for the environment but also for issues of transference of possible contaminants,

 

heat's right about the health and safety issue of course, though its precisely converting those things that are a heath hazard to us, that nourishes the vegitation.
so yes of course, remains need to be removed from where they'd pose a health risk to the living, which direct burrial, at a safe distance from residential areas,
would most likely provide. the flys and their larvae are the problem with exposed decomposition, along with the other unpleasantries of appearance.

burrial without the fancy box and all, would seem to me the logical thing. just make sure you not burrying someone who isn't actually all the way dead.