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I'd rather someone put my corpse in a small boat, push it into the lake and set it ablaze with a fiery arrow. But this seems to be the best closest option for the time being.
The big difference between this and normal burial is that a compost pile heats up significantly as the material within it breaks down; this not only accelerates the breakdown of the organic material into soil, it kills pathogens. With normal burial, because the process of breakdown is slower and occurs at much more normal temperatures, pathogenic bacteria can be released from the decaying body and seep into the soil and potentially into ground water.
Look at this Wikipedia article under the subheadings Phases of Composting, Slow and Rapid Composting, and Pathogen Removal for more information on how a "hot" compost pile works. As for hot hot a pile can get: google "spontaneous combustion of hay" or read http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/livestock/dairy/facts/hayfires.htm. Wet hay in a big pile can heat up to the point where it bursts into flames!
What about take the corpse to the Zoo and be eaten by tigers?
But then the tigers in the zoo will develop a taste for human meat... Just drop me in the ocean and let the wild marine life take care of me.
I never quite understood the desire to be embalmed and put in a shiny casket. You're dead. Final gift to your loved ones? Oh, how about tens of thousands of dollars in burial bills?
The big difference between this and normal burial is that a compost pile heats up significantly as the material within it breaks down; this not only accelerates the breakdown of the organic material into soil, it kills pathogens. With normal burial, because the process of breakdown is slower and occurs at much more normal temperatures, pathogenic bacteria can be released from the decaying body and seep into the soil and potentially into ground water.
Look at this Wikipedia article under the subheadings Phases of Composting, Slow and Rapid Composting, and Pathogen Removal for more information on how a "hot" compost pile works. As for hot hot a pile can get: google "spontaneous combustion of hay" or read http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/livestock/dairy/facts/hayfires.htm. Wet hay in a big pile can heat up to the point where it bursts into flames!
So will sawdust in a container. Back in the 80's a local RV factory in my town burned to the ground because of spontaneous combustion of wet sawdust.
But then the tigers in the zoo will develop a taste for human meat... Just drop me in the ocean and let the wild marine life take care of me.
I never quite understood the desire to be embalmed and put in a shiny casket. You're dead. Final gift to your loved ones? Oh, how about tens of thousands of dollars in burial bills?
Funerals and burials are for the living, not the deceased. As far as I'm concerned if family members want a funeral for their loved one, then they should have to pay for it. I'm opting for cremation, which really isn't that cheap, but much better tens of thousands of dollars just so my survivors can mourn my passing in style. Their show, they can foot the bill.
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