I'd be all game - probably more "gamey" after I have gone (see, you can do puns on here...) - if they paid upfront for the valuable compost my body would get them, presumably to sell as fertilizer to someone growing apples.
Instead I have to *pay* for someone to have the benefit, nay, the *privilege* of using my valuable, stuffed with calories and healthy nutrients, decomposed body to grow their roses in their upper class garden?
Count me out. I'll pony up for some fireworks - if nothing else becomes available in the future.
I'd be interested in a "shot into space" situation if anyone knows anyone.
Well the apples could be used to bake pies, dumplings, anything, even applesauce. But as for the human compost the WEF supporters can demonstrate their commitment today. We can measure the accelerated decomposition of a body full of waste at the outset to the standard.
About 15 or 20 years ago when all the private space companies were starting up, one of them was advertising this as a future service. But first, you had to be cremated to get the mass down to the bare minimum.
Frankly, I do not understand why anyone cares what happens to one's body after one's own death, except to the extent one does not wish to inconvenience one's heirs.
I actually heard about the space capsule being marketed - with cremated remains as you say, boooring. But only half joking.
I think there's a crowd to market the "premium package" to. I am a strong proponent of going with a show aka "bang".
But: I also never fully got the thinking behind your "dead body treatment" after you're gone... so I agree.
Being unselfish, the whole ceremony is for your loved ones/crowd/friends & frenemies - so my take would be along the lines of something grand, "showmanlike".
Like "please bury my body upright in a grand ceremony, in a hole live-drilled by a speed excavator live during the ceremony to 25 feet depth, right besides a weeping elm tree, playing Elvis's 'Hound Dog' on full blast while thirty women in billowing dresses dance merrily" around the burial site during the elegy read by [insert famous star here, why not spring for someone big in case you can?]. All paid for of course so the inheritance is untouched.
Bonus: If you're a "die with zero" fan you'd take care to leave exactly zero inheritance of course at this point; ie the ceremony could be utilized to go to zero in the remaining budget.
Alas, I probably won't be able to afford that, fingers crossed though, never say never.
We're doing Aquamation for pets, 90% less energy and the "by product" after the bones are collected is send to the water treatment plant via the sewer system😁. Process is approved in 28 states for humans as well.
Given all the drugs most Westerners are fed in old age, and the crap chemical laden industrial food most people eat, it would seem this might be the most efficient way to destroy your garden with toxic soil. Much like the "free" compost I can get at my town's recycling yard, which partly comes from lawn clippings, most of which is drenched in herbicide. Given all the toxins and heavy metals most of us take in, human composting might turn out to be the most efficient way to solve the rare earths problem.
The great thing about our collapsing society is that we have an unlimited simply of dumb ideas, the consequences of which no one ever thinks through.
The lunacy of incinerating (cremating)* the chemicals in embalming fluid (formaldehyde et al) in hospital or funeral home incinerators for everyone to breath in, as well as the nasty stuff in the poison jabs they have deployed on people has always struck me as disgusting. For me it's 'within 3 days' burial in a pine box, yes, under a tree somewhere. I have spent too much energy avoiding the injections only to be filled with chemical junk at the end. I am glad there are some alternatives, but I will opt for the home version, no need to spend 5,000 usd* or more on some eco startup.
It was difficult, but I managed to read this post without spilling any ☕️. As David Hannum may have first said, "There's a sucker born every minute." This idea is just bat🦇💩 crazy enough that it might actually gain traction (among the bobblehead crowd). They use the amount of land required for cemeteries as a sales pitch for the so called green decomposition. Interesting. I don't ever remember a bobblehead apologizing for the excessive amount of land required for GINORMOUS solar farms. Perhaps the green decompositions could take place at said solar farms. An interesting two-fer if you ask me.
“While I sit at my desk writing this, kitchen scraps are gently…”. Kitchen scraps! Luxury. We don’t have them here anymore… now there’s energy bills to pay and a climate to stop.
Green solutions are truly amazing, they have no input resources or costs, just planet-saving outcomes.
First, allow me to express my disappointment that on reading this entry’s title it was not about Democrats in America.
That said, if one body going through the ‘rock-a-bye cradle decomposition position situation’ (did you like that?) then imagine how excited the WEF et al must be (even without their CEO - but that’s another story, yes?) at the prospect of saving billions of metric tons of CO2 should their fervent wishes come to fruition!
The rocking of the cocoon can be accomplished by tidal effects or use of Coriolis force. Or maybe by strapping to a windmill blade or a used solar panel on its way to a distant land fill (somehow the synergistic effect of solar panels and cocoons rotting together could be marketed). Remember, like intermittent energy, it doesn’t have to actually work.
Well, as we become efficient in renureing, humans waste could figure in the next energy generation wave. Why bother with toilets? But wait, what if we went one better and turned the dead humans into an edible treat? That would be pure and direct recycling. A one time input of energy that created recycled energy that in turn would be recycled. I remember an old movie with Charleton Heaton called Soylent green. They did it there. We can do it in the here and now!
I remembered reading a science fiction story years ago about recycling human bodies but it turned out to be " Make Room Make Room" which was the book that the Soylent Green movie was based on (which I've not seen). Anyway, I didn't realize that the theme was so popular in many other books. No comedies for some reason.
So wait, I don't get their business model.
I'd be all game - probably more "gamey" after I have gone (see, you can do puns on here...) - if they paid upfront for the valuable compost my body would get them, presumably to sell as fertilizer to someone growing apples.
Instead I have to *pay* for someone to have the benefit, nay, the *privilege* of using my valuable, stuffed with calories and healthy nutrients, decomposed body to grow their roses in their upper class garden?
Count me out. I'll pony up for some fireworks - if nothing else becomes available in the future.
I'd be interested in a "shot into space" situation if anyone knows anyone.
Well the apples could be used to bake pies, dumplings, anything, even applesauce. But as for the human compost the WEF supporters can demonstrate their commitment today. We can measure the accelerated decomposition of a body full of waste at the outset to the standard.
Try Elon. Mention my name.
I'll message him on X, good call. Might get a Guinness record for first dead man in space (before going there).
About 15 or 20 years ago when all the private space companies were starting up, one of them was advertising this as a future service. But first, you had to be cremated to get the mass down to the bare minimum.
Frankly, I do not understand why anyone cares what happens to one's body after one's own death, except to the extent one does not wish to inconvenience one's heirs.
I actually heard about the space capsule being marketed - with cremated remains as you say, boooring. But only half joking.
I think there's a crowd to market the "premium package" to. I am a strong proponent of going with a show aka "bang".
But: I also never fully got the thinking behind your "dead body treatment" after you're gone... so I agree.
Being unselfish, the whole ceremony is for your loved ones/crowd/friends & frenemies - so my take would be along the lines of something grand, "showmanlike".
Like "please bury my body upright in a grand ceremony, in a hole live-drilled by a speed excavator live during the ceremony to 25 feet depth, right besides a weeping elm tree, playing Elvis's 'Hound Dog' on full blast while thirty women in billowing dresses dance merrily" around the burial site during the elegy read by [insert famous star here, why not spring for someone big in case you can?]. All paid for of course so the inheritance is untouched.
Bonus: If you're a "die with zero" fan you'd take care to leave exactly zero inheritance of course at this point; ie the ceremony could be utilized to go to zero in the remaining budget.
Alas, I probably won't be able to afford that, fingers crossed though, never say never.
Good point. All funerals are for the living.
The skull and bones of humans are used for black magic! And no one would miss them.
We're doing Aquamation for pets, 90% less energy and the "by product" after the bones are collected is send to the water treatment plant via the sewer system😁. Process is approved in 28 states for humans as well.
https://cremationadvisor.org/aquamation-explained-the-water-based-cremation-now-legal-in-28-states-and-counting/
Given all the drugs most Westerners are fed in old age, and the crap chemical laden industrial food most people eat, it would seem this might be the most efficient way to destroy your garden with toxic soil. Much like the "free" compost I can get at my town's recycling yard, which partly comes from lawn clippings, most of which is drenched in herbicide. Given all the toxins and heavy metals most of us take in, human composting might turn out to be the most efficient way to solve the rare earths problem.
The great thing about our collapsing society is that we have an unlimited simply of dumb ideas, the consequences of which no one ever thinks through.
Soylent Green, but for post death heavy metal harvesting. 🤔
At least the Malthusian Marxist Death Cult is getting more creative…
The lunacy of incinerating (cremating)* the chemicals in embalming fluid (formaldehyde et al) in hospital or funeral home incinerators for everyone to breath in, as well as the nasty stuff in the poison jabs they have deployed on people has always struck me as disgusting. For me it's 'within 3 days' burial in a pine box, yes, under a tree somewhere. I have spent too much energy avoiding the injections only to be filled with chemical junk at the end. I am glad there are some alternatives, but I will opt for the home version, no need to spend 5,000 usd* or more on some eco startup.
*Most people are cremated after being embalmed
It was difficult, but I managed to read this post without spilling any ☕️. As David Hannum may have first said, "There's a sucker born every minute." This idea is just bat🦇💩 crazy enough that it might actually gain traction (among the bobblehead crowd). They use the amount of land required for cemeteries as a sales pitch for the so called green decomposition. Interesting. I don't ever remember a bobblehead apologizing for the excessive amount of land required for GINORMOUS solar farms. Perhaps the green decompositions could take place at said solar farms. An interesting two-fer if you ask me.
and of course, as we learned in 1982's fantastic movie, Poltergeist, they will be able to build more low cost housing on the erstwhile cemeteries
“While I sit at my desk writing this, kitchen scraps are gently…”. Kitchen scraps! Luxury. We don’t have them here anymore… now there’s energy bills to pay and a climate to stop.
Green solutions are truly amazing, they have no input resources or costs, just planet-saving outcomes.
First, allow me to express my disappointment that on reading this entry’s title it was not about Democrats in America.
That said, if one body going through the ‘rock-a-bye cradle decomposition position situation’ (did you like that?) then imagine how excited the WEF et al must be (even without their CEO - but that’s another story, yes?) at the prospect of saving billions of metric tons of CO2 should their fervent wishes come to fruition!
And great reference to Black Mirror - kudos!
The rocking of the cocoon can be accomplished by tidal effects or use of Coriolis force. Or maybe by strapping to a windmill blade or a used solar panel on its way to a distant land fill (somehow the synergistic effect of solar panels and cocoons rotting together could be marketed). Remember, like intermittent energy, it doesn’t have to actually work.
On the other hand:
"I've got a little list,
they'll never be missed."
- Ko-Ko,
Mikado,
Gilbert and Sullivan
Charlton Heston said it succinctly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UPDUpjkHg0
It’s not living people who “strengthen the environment”-it’s dead people. Can there be a greater hatred and estrangement from human beings than that?
Well, as we become efficient in renureing, humans waste could figure in the next energy generation wave. Why bother with toilets? But wait, what if we went one better and turned the dead humans into an edible treat? That would be pure and direct recycling. A one time input of energy that created recycled energy that in turn would be recycled. I remember an old movie with Charleton Heaton called Soylent green. They did it there. We can do it in the here and now!
You jumped to the end. They're widening the Overton Window onto Soylent Green, one tiny step at a time...
I remembered reading a science fiction story years ago about recycling human bodies but it turned out to be " Make Room Make Room" which was the book that the Soylent Green movie was based on (which I've not seen). Anyway, I didn't realize that the theme was so popular in many other books. No comedies for some reason.
somehow, I am now inspired to see my way into the hereafter atop a 30 foot funeral pyre.