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Posted: 1/1/2023 4:53:20 PM EDT
New York has become the sixth state in the United States to legalize natural organic reduction, popularly known as human composting, as a method of burial.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-becomes-6th-us-state-green-light-human-composting-law Per the article: The process involves the body of the deceased being placed into a reusable vessel, along with plant material such as wood chips, alfalfa and straw. The organic mix creates the perfect habitat for naturally occurring microbes to do their work, quickly and efficiently breaking down the body in about a month’s time. This is a thing?????? Sounds a bit like Soylent Green?? |
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That's probably tied into Cuomo's sending infected covid patients into all the nursing homes to initiate mass homicide of the most vulnerable of the population. Gotta kickstart it somehow.
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I don't have an issue with this. Embalming and expensive caskets always seemed weird to me.
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This is a good thing, being preserved in a box for eternity is idiotic.
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What do you think happens when you get put in the ground in a casket? That shit eventually rots and you're worm food anyway.
A friend of ours died young from an aggressive form of cancer. She wanted to be cremated and spread under the roots of a newly-planted tree so her kids and husband could visit. Not a bad way to leave a legacy. |
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Quoted: I don't have an issue with this. Embalming and expensive caskets always seemed weird to me. View Quote Quoted: I am confused why is this a bad thing? View Quote I'm curious if there's safety issues with it. Like bringing viruses and stuff into the water supply. I have done zero research on the matter, nor pondered it for more than 2 seconds. But seems like maybe we have been doing this for thousands of years for good reason. |
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Happens with dead animals out in the wild literally all the time, even right now as you’re reading this. I don’t think there’s anything odd about wanting to be buried and allowed to rot.
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Quoted: I'm curious if there's safety issues with it. Like bringing viruses and stuff into the water supply. I have done zero research on the matter, nor pondered it for more than 2 seconds. But seems like maybe we have been doing this for thousands of years for good reason. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I don't have an issue with this. Embalming and expensive caskets always seemed weird to me. Quoted: I am confused why is this a bad thing? I'm curious if there's safety issues with it. Like bringing viruses and stuff into the water supply. I have done zero research on the matter, nor pondered it for more than 2 seconds. But seems like maybe we have been doing this for thousands of years for good reason. Yes I would assume there are sanitary reasons for cremation and embalming. This law puts composting facilities under the same regs as funeral homes with regards to handling dead bodies. Composting is a process of accelerating human remains into soil in a container. At that point I guess the remains are safe. |
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Good!
If you want to know more, here's a good vid on it. ![]() Let's Visit the Human Composting Facility! |
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Quoted: Yes I would assume there are sanitary reasons for cremation and embalming. This law puts composting facilities under the same regs as funeral homes with regards to handling dead bodies. Composting is a process of accelerating human remains into soil in a container. At that point I guess the remains are safe. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I don't have an issue with this. Embalming and expensive caskets always seemed weird to me. Quoted: I am confused why is this a bad thing? I'm curious if there's safety issues with it. Like bringing viruses and stuff into the water supply. I have done zero research on the matter, nor pondered it for more than 2 seconds. But seems like maybe we have been doing this for thousands of years for good reason. Yes I would assume there are sanitary reasons for cremation and embalming. This law puts composting facilities under the same regs as funeral homes with regards to handling dead bodies. Composting is a process of accelerating human remains into soil in a container. At that point I guess the remains are safe. I'm not so sure. I don't find the idea morally offensive or anything but not only am I very distrustful of government to begin with, I'm also raising an eyebrow at discarding thousands of years of human tradition. Tradition which I have to assume is born out of harsh lessons. |
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Quoted: Good! If you want to know more, here's a good vid on it. ![]() View Quote I watched this vid a few months ago. Interdasting. |
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I mean literally every country in the world buries their dead.
That crazy uncontacted tribe in the Indian Ocean that shoots arrows at visitors buries their dead. I don't trust this |
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EPA will probably not like having all that oil and grease in the soil
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Quoted: Good! If you want to know more, here's a good vid on it. ![]() View Quote Yep watched like a minute of it. Transhumanist nonsense |
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Anyone who hates their humanity cannot be trusted and is very dangerous
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I wouldn’t mind seeing a clear cut forest being repurposed as a cemetery. Dig a deep hole and bury your loved one and plant a tree over their body.
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Lets throw out lessons learned in the past.
Like the hip trend of living in a van and shitting in a bucket. No sanitation issues possible there. |
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Doesn't NYC have a whole island that they've been dumping bodies on for the last century or two?
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Quoted: This is a good thing, being preserved in a box for eternity is idiotic. View Quote kinda like buck rogers without space ships and robots that have penis heads. |
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I forget who said it but there was a conservative 1950s philosopher from the old right (anti war unless necessary, fiscal responsibility, etc) who said (paraphrasing):
You should be very careful before you tear down a fence, and you should fully understand why it was built there beforehand. |
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I should have figured some weird loony reasons would be given as to why this is bad.
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"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust"
It has long seemed weird to me that people are hermetically sealed in containers after being chemically mummified, given the dominance of Christianity in our culture. Personally, I always wanted to be buried like a Mongol king with my corpse placed on a high plateau to be ripped apart by carrion birds as a passage to the Sky God. The forensic body farms seem like the most natural burial method. :) |
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Used to be called green burials. There's a few cemeteries that accept pine box style caskets and nonembalmed corpses.
I'd prefer that. Dissapear into the soil and made into crude oil. |
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I find no issue with this...you are dead...period...
You want to have a fancy funeral...do it... You want to be cremated...do it... You want to be part of nature...do it... Who cares...your body is gone... |
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Animals have been rotting in the forest and seas for eternity. We’re not that special.
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Quoted: *laughs in India* https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/110902014151-india-funeral-pyre.jpg?q=w_1602,h_1016,x_0,y_0,c_fill View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I mean literally every country in the world buries their dead. That crazy uncontacted tribe in the Indian Ocean that shoots arrows at visitors buries their dead. I don't trust this *laughs in India* https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/110902014151-india-funeral-pyre.jpg?q=w_1602,h_1016,x_0,y_0,c_fill Wew Okay so nuke India and then the rest of the world can be normal |
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I dunno. Don't really care.
Funerals are for the living. Once I'm gone, it's basically up to my family and friends. Do with me what you will - whatever helps the grieving process. Or science. Or the earth. Or whatever the hell you people collectively feel is the best use of what's left of me. Won't really matter to me anymore. |
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Quoted: I dunno. Don't really care. Funerals are for the living. Once I'm gone, it's basically up to my family and friends. Do with me what you will - whatever helps the grieving process. Or science. Or the earth. Or whatever the hell you people collectively feel is the best use of what's left of me. Won't really matter to me anymore. View Quote That's an interesting thought I wonder what they do with the science bodies after they're done scienceing them |
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Quoted: Once deceased, the meaningful distinctions from the remainder of the animal kingdom is gone. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: We are that special. We are the only rational animal Once deceased, the meaningful distinctions from the remainder of the animal kingdom is gone. One could rationally assume since we are different in life we are different in death. Much like a plant isn't a dog, and a dog isn't a person. But to your point I'm not really sure how that affects burial. I mean having a rational soul versus a plant soul isn't defined by how you're buried. I don't know. Just kinda naturally skeptical of this, for no good reason. |
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Quoted: One could rationally assume since we are different in life we are different in death. Much like a plant isn't a dog, and a dog isn't a person. But to your point I'm not really sure how that affects burial. I mean having a rational soul versus a plant soul isn't defined by how you're buried. I don't know. Just kinda naturally skeptical of this, for no good reason. View Quote If I ever come across your corpse I'll not give it a viking funeral ![]() |
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Quoted: If I ever come across your corpse I'll not give it a viking funeral ![]() View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: One could rationally assume since we are different in life we are different in death. Much like a plant isn't a dog, and a dog isn't a person. But to your point I'm not really sure how that affects burial. I mean having a rational soul versus a plant soul isn't defined by how you're buried. I don't know. Just kinda naturally skeptical of this, for no good reason. If I ever come across your corpse I'll not give it a viking funeral ![]() Burial at sea is a really old tradition though |
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I want to be fed to the bears and wolves in the mountains ,the full circle of life thing.
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Quoted: That's an interesting thought I wonder what they do with the science bodies after they're done scienceing them View Quote We had a friend in medical school years ago. Each student was responsible for one segment of their anatomy lab. They would go to the lab and pick up a bunch of whatever they were dissecting that day. On her day she went and picked up a bucket of dicks for the class. |
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Im good with decomposition in a wooden box, in a cemetery. I want family to have a place to go that I'am physically at. I think it's the most natural thing. It also respects that the body we're in now, is the body that will be raised up/renewed in the Resurrection; so I think leaving the body as-is respects that. Embalming and elaborate tombing procedures all seem like a gargantuan waste. I suppose for the sake of future historians it's got some merit, but it's weird how embalming becoming THE common practice.
I think cremation is kinda creepy and perhaps disrespectful to the body. Even though the soul has passed, the body was still that of the person/animal you cared for, so to just incinerate what was so precious, idk, I don't care for it. One of our pets was buried, and I think of it as still being there. But another one, a family pet, was cremated. The ashes were buried, but it's the tiny lock of hair that is all that's really left. Ashes just don't mean the same thing. |
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Metal coffins were until the last century were reserved for royalty due to the cost. Go through history and you find some kings, queens etc buried in cast bronze, copper or lead lined boxes, but until recently it was too expensive to do that for most people. You got wrapped in a blanket or sheet, maybe a wooden casket if you were well off in an established area and buried as you died, no embalming done. Todays "sanitary" regulations are rooted in science a little, but a concrete enclosure holding a metal coffin with a totally embalmed body inside that is going to last for eons just as it is; is more than a little overkill.
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