Alternative to burial & cremation

[LONDONER]

[SIZE="4"]A fairly long and interesting article on an environmentally alternative

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-...d&ns_fee=0[/SIZE]

[meridannight]

No thanks. I don't like the sound of that at all. Dissolving one's body in alkaline solution sounds gross. I want my remains to go decently, not like that. I'd rather have myself buried. Cremation is my first choice, and remains my first choice.

Everything has an environmental cost, after all. Being alive has an environmental cost. If you want to be that friendly to the environment, you should just go ahead and end your life right now. This is becoming ridiculous. I'm all for being conscious of the effect you have on the environment around you, but measuring every other thing by how costly is in that regard is becoming annoying and dumb.

[LJay]

This makes me think of a favorite oem:


I Shall not Care Related Poem Content Details
BY SARA TEASDALE
When I am dead and over me bright April
Shakes out her rain-drenched hair,
Tho' you should lean above me broken-hearted,
I shall not care.

I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful
When rain bends down the bough,
And I shall be more silent and cold-hearted
Than you are now.

[TigerLover]

A company employing this process did a reddit AMA a while ago.

Personally this is the way i'd like to go splitting your body into dust and water then just flowing into the river ways to join the endless cycle of the waters.
I hope it'll be legal before I die.

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comment...ham_jevon/

[Jon]

I'd like to be sent up to space on a vinegar and baking soda rocket

[TigerLover]

No thanks. I don't like the sound of that at all. Dissolving one's body in alkaline solution sounds gross. I want my remains to go decently, not like that. I'd rather have myself buried.

It's exactly the same as what happens to your body after burial. They just hit the fast forward button.

Cremation is my first choice, and remains my first choice.

This will be significantly cheaper than fire cremation, Lye is only 0.50$ a kg compared to the cost of all that natural gas required to incinerate bone

I think unless you plan to save up for your own funeral it'd be unfair to burden your loved ones with a greater bill than necessary.

As for fire cremation being more dignified.

The details of cremation.

Spoiler:

The body is subjected to a jet engine like column of flame, aimed at the torso. The heat ignites the container and dries the body, which is composed of 75 percent water. As the soft tissues begin to tighten, burn and vaporize from the heat, the skin becomes waxy, discolors, blisters and splits. The muscle begins to char, flexing and extending limbs as it tightens. The bones, which are the last to go, become calcified as they are exposed to the heat and begin to flake or crumble leaving behind a coarse gravel.

I would say peacefully dissolving then flowing into a river is much more dignified. But I suppose that's a matter of personal taste.