Posted on 09/20/2021 3:54:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Body composting, recently approved by Colorado lawmakers, is a “green” alternative to burial and cremation
In a suburban Denver warehouse tucked between an auto repair shop and a computer recycling business, Seth Viddal is dealing with life and death.
He and one of his employees have built a “vessel” they hope will usher in a more environmentally friendly era of mortuary science that includes the natural organic reduction of human remains, also known as body composting.
“It’s a natural process where the body is returned to an elemental level over a short period of time,” said Viddal, who likened the practice to backyard composting of food scraps and yard waste. “This is the same process but done with a human body inside of a vessel, and in our case, in a controlled environment.”
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They’ve got to be kidding right?? How Morbid!
Actually, that’s a pretty interesting idea.
I’ve always wanted to know but have been afraid to ask at a funeral, why do they waste such an expensive piece of furniture (The coffin)?
Do they actually bury it?
I just don’t know.
My question is pertinent because if they just bury the body straight into the ground, doesn’t it decompose? If they put it in a fancy box, wouldn’t it take a very long time before it decomposes?
I look forward to a resurrected, glorified body.
As the geneologist in our family I would say the next step in the process of returning a person to its elemental state is to remove all traces from printed or electronic documents that the person ever existed.
Ahmm, so shoot, shovel and shut-up is okay now? Damn.
be careful where you dig to install that swimming pool...
I like the idea.
Let the worms and bugs take this old thing when I’m done with it. Why burn it, or pump it full of preservatives? Nothing gained by that.
Large Blender and then you have Soylent Green
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Agreed...all that money to be buried inside a piece of furniture. Please. Roll me up in a shroud, dig a hole, pitch me in, and seed the plot with wildflowers...in a nice meadow set aside as a cemetery of sorts. No nonsensical monuments. I’m good to go.
I prefer the Andrew Dice Clay version.
Yes, they bury the expensive woooden casket in an expensive vault. We (mostly me) opted to rent caskets for my parents for the viewings and services. In, what can be, an expensive plot.
They were both then cremated and will be buried in one cemetery plot. COVID has held up my mom’s graveside service due to it taking at least six months for the headstone to arrive. They come from overseas.
With what most people put in their bodies, I’m pretty sure what is left after composting would be considered toxic waste.
Might as well just mimic a certain scene in the movie Fargo!
Even so, come Lord Jesus
Dr. Bass at the University of Tennessee did quite an extensive study on the deterioration of a body buried in the ground. I don’t care how deep one puts the dead, there is an animal somewhere that can dig down to it.
All options are ultimately “green”.
Some just go green faster than others...
The mob has used concrete composting for years.
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