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    Post The Newly Legal Process for Turning Human Corpses to Soil

    The Newly Legal Process for Turning Human Corpses to Soil - Reusable eight-by-four-foot steel cylinders, packed with wood chips, straw, and alfalfa, present an eco-friendly alternative to traditional burial.

    There’s an empty warehouse 20 miles south of Seattle that, if everything goes as planned, will soon be full of dead people. The facility belongs to Recompose, the first U.S. company to compost human bodies indoors, through a process known officially as natural organic reduction. Washington state became the first — and so far, only — U.S. state to legalize the practice in May 2019. Recompose opens in November. It’s designed to hold the bodies of up to 10 recently deceased people at a time, each of them quietly decomposing into a loamy, nutritious soil, just as their previous owners wanted.

    At the most basic level, decomposition is not a new technology; microbes have been doing it extremely well for just about as long as organic matter has existed. But it’s a part of death that Western funeral practices have traditionally gone to great lengths to evade: Embalming a corpse in chemicals with the goal of preserving a “natural” (that is, not dead) look; hawking expensive caskets that claim to seal out nature’s corrupting forces.

    Recompose takes the opposite approach. This is its story:


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    The dead don't care.

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    How bout the bones?
    What's next?
    "Organic" dog treats?

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    Add that to the mushroom burial.
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    I don't care for this. I think it is disrespectful. We have one of those locally but they seem to have a somewhat different method.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Calypso Jones View Post
    I don't care for this. I think it is disrespectful. We have one of those locally but they seem to have a somewhat different method.
    That is the beauty of freedom in a Republic America, where the majority can't stop this innovative approach to the dead. The people can, in their legal will, their have bodies to be treated in this way, thus "disrespect" doesn't matter to them.

    I for one preferred the cremation way, but this way would be fine as well, since we came from the dust, to the dust we return. The resurrection will not bring those already used dead bodies back to life, it is the SOUL that is to be resurrected, not the body, why the wasteful expensive embalming process?

    "From dust to dust"
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    I might stand having to be buried within 48 hours sans embalming but not left out for the weather and worms no matter how neatly packaged.
    Bodies should be treated with more respect. I imagine in 50 years if the USA is still around in some form or another, the deceased will elicit no more respect than in the movie Soylent green. Hell. They're already treating humans with little respect now during this scamdemic. We've learned our doctors are not our doctors...they're government doctors.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Calypso Jones View Post
    I might stand having to be buried within 48 hours sans embalming but not left out for the weather and worms no matter how neatly packaged.
    Bodies should be treated with more respect. I imagine in 50 years if the USA is still around in some form or another, the deceased will elicit no more respect than in the movie Soylent green. Hell. They're already treating humans with little respect now during this scamdemic. We've learned our doctors are not our doctors...they're government doctors.
    You can decide what you want, I have NO issue in your decision to be embalmed and buried.

    For me once the soul leaves the body, it becomes and empty shell, in the resurrection, the people in Jesus bosom will get a new healthy body, free of defects.

    That is why I don't give a dam about my deformed, deaf, and weak eyes body I currently inhabit.
    "Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again." Ronald Reagan

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