Compost me when I die!
 

Another innovative idea, instead of a funeral, or cremation, there is growing interest in composting people.

Sounds crazy right, except, that is what people did for literally ever until someone found a way to make lots of money off people dying.

I understand that just planting a body in your backyard is both illegal and unsanitary and can spread disease. BUT...

Compositing results in perfectly safe residue and has a far lower carbon footprint than either burial or cremation. Give it a read, I like it.

now you can compost human bodies too

You first:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

I discussed this with my brother who worked as an Ethics advisor for President Bush #2. His response was that it meshes nicely with Christian teachings and old testament Jewish teachings about how to deal with dead bodies.

As for going first, ABSOLUTELY, the project is in the early phases and working to meet government regulations - hopefully, I will live long enough for it to be available.

The alternative, I have told my wife to cremate me and flush the ashes, she has agreed to the cremation, but refuses to agree to flush me - LOL

It can be done right here in Gainesville Florida. It’s a beautiful preserve where no embalming or traditional caskets are allowed.
Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery

Golfing Eagles would like my wife's plan, assuming I am alive
 

GE,

my wife wants to be cremated and then for me to play around at a TPC course, preferably TPC Sawgrass, and use her ashes to fill in my iron and wedge divots. . and spread the remaining ashes on the 18th fairway. . .

I am like, will do!

golfer guy

I already have a similar arrangement in place :coolsmiley:

This really isn’t a new idea, there have been areas for human decomposition for years. The only thing they can’t keep out are the bugs and the critters but hey, they have to eat too.:mmmm:

It goes a step beyond decomposition, to composting.

If you’ve decomposed in the forest, you’ve composted. No muss, no fuss.:coolsmiley:

True, the issue legally is that decomposing (I assume you mean rotting) has a rask of spreading disease, where composting is a control process in a controlled environment so the temperatures get high enough to kill any potential pathogens.

There is still the problem of heavy metals and other non-compostable body parts that need to be dealt with.

But, the same idea, returning to nature rather than being buried in a $20K coffin and a vault to seal you off for a while.

Thought I was reading my Babylon Bee for a minute!! ������������

Been doing it for years......

My niece just planted a tree on their property in New York with the remains of her parents. I think it is wonderful.

I want to be laminated and placed at the local tavern

There are fox hunting clubs in the UK and Ireland where it is traditional that if a fox hunting horse dies, it is donated to the club kennels, where it is cut up, cooked, and fed to the hounds. When the hounds are out running, they pause from time to time to distribute the horse over the fields it loved. If you have ever been a fox hunter, you understand how “right” this seems, and how romantic. Both horses and hounds love fox hunting, and foxes seem to enjoy the game of wits, too.

How about for Village golfers, a little gadget on the back of a golf cart that slowly trickles ashes, a pinch at a time, all over someone’s favorite golf course?

Good idea.

Wow, I never knew there was such a place as a green cemetery. . Thanks for sharing.

How wasteful! Just think of all the greenhouse gasses your rotting body will release, as microbes feed on you and convert your stored carbon into poisonous methane and CO2 emissions!

Why should microbes have all the fun? Anyone seriously concerned about the looming climate disaster predicted by Al Gore (that plunged Florida into the Atlantic back in 2013!) should demand the Soylent Green solution to human body disposal!

Did you know that if you train a flatworm to avoid an electric shock and then grind him up and feed him to another flatworm, the new flatworm automatically learns how to avoid an electric shock?

I've got a socialist sister-in-law who could greatly benefit from eating my brain!

Soylent Green, baby! Tastes like chicken!

Consuming as much hops an barley as I can in order to do my part for fertilizing the land.

My wife wants her ashes dumped in the bay in Virginia.
I told her I could just flush them and they would get in the bay eventually...
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Economics may prevail. The mortuaries or compostatories will determine a price to do this properly. Storage costs will be interesting. Disease control will also be factored in. I wonder if they need to “roll” you periodically.

Having my ashes spread out over Walmart parking lot so the kids will visit me every day...
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I’m having my ashes spread in cyberspace!

I just don't know if I'm ready to go to Lowes to pick up a bag that says "Human Mulch" on it.. :shocked:

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When my kid was 10 years old he decided he wanted a Viking funeral in Lake Erie. But my archery skills just aren’t good enough. So I figured for myself I would be cremated and then ashes sent to the fireworks company in Pennsylvania and hopefully put in some fireworks. But composting seems like a very good idea. I will have to check into this. I wouldn’t mind a body farm either to help forensic scientists. 😂

I want to launched into space like scotty from Star Treck, away from this flying dirt ball

I would like to be composted when I expire but cannot because I am considered toxic as most of us are. :ohdear:

Yup, it’s the filling in your teeth. Remove those and then compost away.

I have not talked to any foxes lately, but being shredded to death by a bunch of hounds cannot fun for them...Neither can being a horse ridden recklessly to death in pursuit of the fox. What is romantic about that. Yes another "class" of entitled rich folk. Enough of that here. If you cannot care for any animal then you cannot care much for humans.

Cremation: The only way I'll ever have a smokin' hot body!
 

I'd prefer to donate my body to the Body Farm for forensic science purposes!:bigbow:

Actually, they do "roll" you occasionally. The original plan was a tall building where bodies are dropped in the top, and compost comes out the bottom and there were stirring mechanisms built in.

It would take some getting used to. And the political (emotional) considerations of selling the milch to farmers would be a real hurdle.

I hope you meant "play a round" not "play around"

Sounds like the 1973 movie "Soylent Green" sort of.....except they turned dead bodies into food not mulch.

Sort of, and you could then use the compost to grow food plants, and then it would be very much like soylent green. Especially if we start encouraging people to accept euthanasia to help reduce population and contribute to healthy farms.

Not so good for chickens, ducks, young lambs etc. being shreaded by foxes either.
Always another side of the coin.

If they'll take me I want to donate whatever's left to a medical school or such. Much
 

If they'll take me I want to donate whatever's left to a medical school or such. Much more practical and useful to science than other solutions!

uh oh... Freudian?

Spreading ashes is against the law, although people do it all the time. Composting sounds good to me. I am a gardener and so right up my alley.

Don't compost me, please.

Bury me with my butt sticking out of the ground so you have a place to park your bicycle when you bring flowers. :1rotfl::1rotfl: