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Do what? You are worried about a biodegradable covering after just burning enough hydrocarbons to power a small country for a year to put your corpse in space?
Shot out into space in a biodegradable covering would be better. The biodegradable covering disintegrates and one's body just decays wherever it lands. This won't happen for a long, long time though. Trees sprouting from people pods don't sound so great - if it grew apples, would people be able to eat them?
Look at an apple. Do you have any idea how many atoms are in that apple? Somewhere in the septillions (there's a lot of zeroes in that one). Within that apple are carbon and hydrogen and oxygen atoms, among others, that have passed through the bodies of almost everyone on Earth who have ever lived (the only exceptions might be the very recently born).
Take a bite of anything - there's a little bit of everyone in there. George Washington. Adolf Hitler. William Shakespeare. Ted Bundy. Charlemagne. Jimi Hendrix. Everyone.
PS - I hope you enjoy whatever you're eating right now...
It's not all that different from burying someone in a wooden coffin and then planting a tree on top of the stop....We all turn back into dust and rejoin Mother Nature.
I want my ashes spread on my favorite beach. My family could have a vacation while taking me there.
"Okay honey that looks like a good spot, spread the blanket and put up the umbrella. ...ok Mom, but why does this sand feel so funny? "
As far as the apples go, I'm willing to bet there isn't anything grown on any land anywhere that hasn't had something die and disintegrate on that spot at some point in time. A lot of the farm country around here were civil war battlefields, how is that as food for thought?!
Look at an apple. Do you have any idea how many atoms are in that apple? Somewhere in the septillions (there's a lot of zeroes in that one). Within that apple are carbon and hydrogen and oxygen atoms, among others, that have passed through the bodies of almost everyone on Earth who have ever lived (the only exceptions might be the very recently born).
Take a bite of anything - there's a little bit of everyone in there. George Washington. Adolf Hitler. William Shakespeare. Ted Bundy. Charlemagne. Jimi Hendrix. Everyone.
PS - I hope you enjoy whatever you're eating right now...
And, too, think about all the dead bugs and animals and even manure that makes up the soil that our food is grown in. Why wouldn't you be able to eat things? It's not like we're talking about eating soup out of someone's skull.
Look at an apple. Do you have any idea how many atoms are in that apple? Somewhere in the septillions (there's a lot of zeroes in that one). Within that apple are carbon and hydrogen and oxygen atoms, among others, that have passed through the bodies of almost everyone on Earth who have ever lived (the only exceptions might be the very recently born).
Take a bite of anything - there's a little bit of everyone in there. George Washington. Adolf Hitler. William Shakespeare. Ted Bundy. Charlemagne. Jimi Hendrix. Everyone.
PS - I hope you enjoy whatever you're eating right now...
You are correct.
I've posted this before on another thread some place.
Back in chemistry class back in college, we had to calculate how many molecules were in the room from the last dying breath of someone famous like Archimedes or Socrates. We were given a few variables and then left to figure it out on our own. The answer was around 5-10 molecules depending on what assumptions you made in the calculations. Basically, everything on earth is recycled including air, water and food.
That fertilizer that was used to grow your food came from something else. It was previously mulched plants, manure from animals, or even animal waste parts that didn't have another purpose. Human bodies are really no different than animals.
I want my entrails to be eaten by coyotes and vultures. The rest picked clean by worms and beetles. Every other animal goes this way, why not me?
Realistically, I will probably be cremated, though.
Me too.
My preference would be to be buried in a shroud in the ground without any embalming. My parts would nourish bugs and plants that in turn would be eaten by other creatures and the cycle would continue forever. I can't think of anything better.
I've seen those burial pod links on Facebook and If they're legal I think they're a great idea. Like being buried in a shroud, if your body nurtured a tree your essence would be eternal.
I'll stick with cremation...throw the ashes around a tree if you want....
if you were a heavy smoker, you could be cremated and put in a large ashtray-- you'd feel right at home.
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