Human Composting Law

[Jazzy]

Article-->New York OKs human composting law; 6th state in US to do so

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What are your thoughts on human composting?

 

[Stravinsk]

This is basically how burials went for thousands of years, sans a casket for the less wealthy, prior to modern methods. I don't have a problem with it being allowed.

In fact I don't see any downside except this: The reason for it. I do not believe so called "climate change" is influenced by humans. We have, in our various societies, been burning stuff since time began, and the world hasn't plunged into the ocean. Any carbon that makes it into the atmosphere is taken up by plants, so instead of demonizing carbon, plant more trees.

The "crisis" is and always has been a hoax. The powers that be want to dupe the populations of the world into accepting a digital control system (slavery), and one's "carbon score" is slated to be part of that.

 

[tango]

Article-->New York OKs human composting law; 6th state in US to do so

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What are your thoughts on human composting?

Without reading the article, I'm wondering if this is similar to the natural burial grounds that some other countries use.

Instead of a hideously expensive wooden or metal casket placed inside an even more expensive stone vault that is then buried (because, perish the thought that the dead body might be reabsorbed into the ground as has been the norm since we first walked the earth), they use a natural casket. The casket and the body within it decay and the earth takes everything back.

I went to a funeral at such a burial ground some years ago. It was a remarkable place - the family had opted for one of the more deluxe caskets so they had a wicker basket rather than a cardboard box. The casket was buried, the hole filled in, and a native tree planted to mark the site. Where most graveyards are clearly places of death, this was a place of life - people were allowed to plant flowers on the gravesite (from an approved list of native species) and the trees and flowers attracted pollinators and birds.

Over time the ground level drops, as the casket and body decay. When that happens the grounds keepers top it up.

It seems ridiculous, as happened at a different funeral I attended, to put everything in box after box after box to protect the body, even as the funeral director assures everybody that the body will still "return to dust". So the body decays and you end up with an expensive box inside an expensive box to protect some dust. That will be $10,000 please. It's ridiculous.

 

[Lamb]

I looked up some things and learned that there are some diseases that composting will not eradicate...which could cause problems in the future to many people.

For me personally, don't do this to me.

 

[tango]

For me personally, don't do this to me.

I wouldn't want a full-blown burial with a hideously expensive casket and a hideously expensive concrete chamber. Funeral directors, from my (limited) experience seem very keen to sell people the most expensive options because "their loved one deserves something good". When I'm dead I won't know if you put me in a solid mahogany box with gold handles or a cardboard box. It's not like I'm going to be any more or less comfortable because someone paid thousands for a silk-lined mahogany box.

 

[Lamb]

I wouldn't want a full-blown burial with a hideously expensive casket and a hideously expensive concrete chamber. Funeral directors, from my (limited) experience seem very keen to sell people the most expensive options because "their loved one deserves something good". When I'm dead I won't know if you put me in a solid mahogany box with gold handles or a cardboard box. It's not like I'm going to be any more or less comfortable because someone paid thousands for a silk-lined mahogany box.

You've dealt with some shady funeral directors then. The one who took care of my mom's funeral was absolutely perfect! He let us choose, didn't pressure us with anything and took care of all the little details. We received 1 bill instead of a bunch of little bills for various things and it was in line with what the basic funeral costs these days.

 

[tango]

You've dealt with some shady funeral directors then. The one who took care of my mom's funeral was absolutely perfect! He let us choose, didn't pressure us with anything and took care of all the little details. We received 1 bill instead of a bunch of little bills for various things and it was in line with what the basic funeral costs these days.

Maybe I just got unlucky. I only recall getting one bill but the funeral director I have in mind didn't miss a single opportunity to upsell and push ever-more expensive options.

 

[ValleyGal]

It's interesting that in such a death-denying culture, that funerals have become such big business and now a "green" business. In some areas, as Tango said, upselling is very common, but this can be prevented by pre-planning and pre-purchasing your own funeral/burial. Why not just get cremated and be done with it?

I have a burial plot in my hometown and really don't care what box I'm in. The plots are not big concrete chambers, but regular holes in the ground that are covered in dirt. No matter what kind of box a body is in, eventually it will decay, just as much as a body does, leaving the ground caving in which the caretakers fill in. I will be buried under a big tree at the "top" of the old main street where I grew up and my family had lived for two full generations before me.

I am not against composting for those who qualify - and those who qualify would need to be free from certain types of diseases, as Lamb suggests. There are a lot of options now, even getting compressed into a diamond. Who knows. Maybe I'll change my mind, sell my plot and become a gem!