to be or not to be........worm food

[dawp]

No coffin required: Human composting becomes more mainstream

California Gov. Gavin Newsom this month signed a bill that requires state regulators to create a program allowing “natural organic reduction” by 2027.

www.nbcnews.com

another option along these lines is to will yourself to a body farm.

 

[nakedfrog]

It's already legal in WA, I've informed next of kin that it's my desire to be turned into compost when the time comes.

 

[IronWing]

JHC, the funeral industry manages to turn natural rotting into a $7K+ bill. If we bury corpses without the embalming and without the concrete vault and without the metal lined casket, the same thing happens for the price of a half hour on a backhoe.

 

[Moonbeam]

I best I have heard is that in Tibet there is a practice to put the bodies out for the vultures. How cool is that were it not for all the toxins that humans accumulate in their fat.

 

[hal2kilo]

I best I have heard is that in Tibet there is a practice to put the bodies out for the vultures. How cool is that were it not for all the toxins that humans accumulate in their fat.

I think sky burial has been banned in India, because people don't like finding random body parts in their yard. I kind of approve of sky burial though. I'll probably land in the Salish Sea by the Neptune society from a WA state ferry.

 

[nakedfrog]

JHC, the funeral industry manages to turn natural rotting into a $7K+ bill. If we bury corpses without the embalming and without the concrete vault and without the metal lined casket, the same thing happens for the price of a half hour on a backhoe.

Seems to have gone up since last time I looked at it a year ago 😕

 

[BoomerD]

I think sky burial has been banned in India, because people don't like finding random body parts in their yard. I kind of approve of sky burial though. I'll probably land in the Salish Sea by the Neptune society from a WA state ferry.

Bodies and body parts belong in the river, like the gods intended...

 

[dawp]

like I said in op, you can go the body farm route

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_farm

 

[hal2kilo]

Bodies and body parts belong in the river, like the gods intended...

They will only be ashes.

 

[K1052]

Relevant page from my will on funeral arrangements:

 

[MrSquished]

JHC, the funeral industry manages to turn natural rotting into a $7K+ bill. If we bury corpses without the embalming and without the concrete vault and without the metal lined casket, the same thing happens for the price of a half hour on a backhoe.

Pretty nuts. At this point cremate me or compost me - WHICHEVER IS CHEAPER!

 

[dawp]

Pretty nuts. At this point cremate me or compost me - WHICHEVER IS CHEAPER!

the cheapest is to donate to science, they will cremate when done.

 

[MrSquished]

the cheapest is to donate to science, they will cremate when done.

Sounds like a plan. If they'll take me, I give my body to the scientists at death.