Here's an interesting way to be disposed of when you die....
http://mbvtravel.com/burials-in-tibet-not-for-sensitive-souls/
http://mbvtravel.com/burials-in-tibet-not-for-sensitive-souls/
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Didn't a crematory in North Georgia try this once?
http://articles.cnn.com/keyword/tri-state-crematory
This is the way to go. Too bad there is only one (currently) in the entire USA.
http://www.resomation.com/
http://articles.cnn.com/keyword/tri-state-crematory
This is the way to go. Too bad there is only one (currently) in the entire USA.
http://www.resomation.com/
cremation in my favorite trout stream....not sure who would spread them cause after i told them id have to kill them:bigok:
My wife knows I want to be cremated and the ashes spread out as wildflower fertilizer at some remote spot in the southern Utah desert. She can pick the spot.
Wow, looks a lot like what I have read about the Lakota doing. Set up a death scaffold on the prairie and move camp. Unless you were not well-liked, then you were just covered up with some rocks.
I saw this a couple weeks ago.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/1/funeral-pyres-an-option-in-colorado-mountain-town/
I saw this a couple weeks ago.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/1/funeral-pyres-an-option-in-colorado-mountain-town/
Levi said:
cool, but I am surprised some nutcake hasnt bitched to the EPA about the hydrocarbons released....:ack:
I bet Chapman would chop you up and feed you to the birds...
As long as my body gets used by nature in a timely fashion, I could give a crap how it happens. I just don't want to be sealed in a lead box and pumped full of chemicals to preserve my mortal remains for a thousand years. I know, I know, what's "time" for the earth, but if one DOES have any sort of consciousness expanding becoming one with the universe sorta experience upon death, I imagine that having your remains sealed off might hinder the process somewhat. Ideally, I'd like to be burned on a mountain for three days and nights, and a portion of my ashes planted with the roots of a fruit tree.
As long as my body gets used by nature in a timely fashion, I could give a crap how it happens. I just don't want to be sealed in a lead box and pumped full of chemicals to preserve my mortal remains for a thousand years. I know, I know, what's "time" for the earth, but if one DOES have any sort of consciousness expanding becoming one with the universe sorta experience upon death, I imagine that having your remains sealed off might hinder the process somewhat. Ideally, I'd like to be burned on a mountain for three days and nights, and a portion of my ashes planted with the roots of a fruit tree.
knewsom said:
There is a such thing as minimal embalming, and there are also formaldehyde free chemicals.
Minimal embalming would be basically flushing the blood from the body. Blood is soft tissue and decomp starts in the soft tissues. By draining the blood only and replacing it with special co-injection chemicals (water corrective solutions), a dead body, depending on fat content, could last up to 2-weeks before starting to stink. Of course other factors come into play as to how long a body can go before decomp get bad.
Formaldehyde free chemicals are a little different. I don't know much about them because the chemical companies will not say what they are. But they claim they're "green". In any case, they will only slow down decomp but stop short of preserving the body.
Keep in mind, though, that embalming is not to preserve the body. Embalming is to disinfect the body so the body can me viewed by the public. You do not need to be embalmed to be buried. Also, you do not need to be buried in a "seal" container. Wood, for instance, is not sealed and will eventually go back to the earth. Or you could just be wrapped in the sheet.
chris snell said:
"Resomation", as it's referred to in Europe, is going to take the place of cremation in the USA. It will still be a few years away, though. Currently, there is only one resomation machine operating in the USA, and it's located on Ohio. Two other units have been installed in FL, but politics has gotten on the way of them actually operating so far.
Resomation is about as simple and "green" as it gets. Water and lye eat everything off the skeleton in about 3-hours. The only thing left is brittle calcium. MUCH more eco-friendly than cremation.
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D Chapman said:
MSDS? It's pretty hard to sell a chemical product in the US without disclosing to some degree the make-up.
I want to be cremated and my ashes mixed with a pound of good pot and smoked by my friends
ptschram said:MSDS? It's pretty hard to sell a chemical product in the US without disclosing to some degree the make-up.
I want to be cremated and my ashes mixed with a pound of good pot and smoked by my friends
Courtney Love wanted to snort Kurt's ashes.....
What an odd coincidence that I was browsing through Wikipedia this morning and came across a religion called Zoroastrian. As I was reading through low and behold they were the ones who created the Towers of Silence and put the dead out for the birds to feed on. Their belief was that decay was a form of evil being released. Having birds consume a body before it could decay was very important to preventing a rotting corpse from polluting the good in the world.
Due to a massive die off of scavenger birds in India (one of the places there is still a population of Zoroastrians), they are having to resort to other methods to dispose of the bodies. One of those methods sounds similar to what Dan was talking about with Resomation by lining the graves with lime.
Still, I think I'll pass on being devoured.
Due to a massive die off of scavenger birds in India (one of the places there is still a population of Zoroastrians), they are having to resort to other methods to dispose of the bodies. One of those methods sounds similar to what Dan was talking about with Resomation by lining the graves with lime.
Still, I think I'll pass on being devoured.
