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I like the idea of being composted, but your bones remain. So after you pay for the composting, which does promise the proper environment, I guess you could, as with ashes, be buried in several places. Or not buried, just scattered. Who would notice? It's not legal here to scatter ashes from human cremation but people do it all the time. However, who gets the bones? Can my husband just bury them in the backyard? Or make a strange fence from them? Maybe a Halloween decoration. Just wondering.
BTW, I heard it was 4k, more than the 3k they charge for cremation without burial.
The vast majority of the human body is C, O & N which get oxidized to gasses --h2o, NOx & co2 (Oh, Noooo!) and drift off as exhausted smoke during cremation. The solid residue is what's left of the bones, for the most part. It's scooped into a little container ~ 6"x 4" x 8" and it looks like white flakes of stone mostly smaller than 1cm across.
Not much fertilizer value there AND you've added co2 to the atm. Is this environmentally friendly or just virtue signaling?
Cremation requires fuel, which is becoming too valuable to waste on body disposal. Embalming is extra and unnecessary work that pollutes the soil with formaldehyde. That leaves plain burial.
Last edited by Nattering Heights; 10-09-2022 at 05:18 AM..
Cremation requires fuel, which is becoming too valuable to waste on body disposal. Embalming is extra and unnecessary work that pollutes the soil with formaldehyde. That leaves plain burial.
Right, why do we need to re-invent the wheel? It worked for millennia
In complete agreement with you.
The movement should be to avoid headstones -and make them unacceptable to people - just a natural landscape, perhaps just a choice of a native tree or a boulder to mark it for a few years - if even that
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