DailyDirt: Bring Out Your Dead...
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
Disposing of dead bodies is usually not a funny topic for anyone -- except for maybe Monty Python. But until we figure out how to cheat death, we're going to need to deal with corpses. Burying the dead six feet under might not be practical in some places, and not everyone is keen on cremation. Here are just a few other options.- The Urban Death Project is working on a human compost pile... that is respectful but at the same time practical. It's not exactly a pleasant thought that the deceased bodies of loved ones would be mixed with organic waste products, but Nature doesn't have a problem with it at all. If various kinds of composting don't appeal to you, maybe you'd prefer launching your remains into space? [url]
- What do astronauts do if their colleagues were to die in a spacecraft on the way to Mars? There are some proposed solutions (such as a body bag for a promession process), but the answer hasn't been decided yet. [url]
- Liquid cremation (aka alkaline hydrolysis) is another method of dealing with a cadaver. This process doesn't produce as much carbon emissions as traditional cremation, and it uses less energy (but more water). It's also not legal in every state. [url]
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Filed Under: alkaline hydrolysis, astronauts, cadavers, composting, cremation, death, promession, rip, urban death project
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"Bring out your dead! The dark man's coming! The man with no face!"
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if you was to die on mars, say, and your stinky remains couldn't be brought back, you'd be the only known human in the history of humanity to spend your eternity anywhere other than earth. at least until the next one, anyway.
almost worth volunteering for it. talk about a name to remember.
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Showing more respect for the dead than the living
The living we abuse,
The living we fight,
The living we kill (and then respect),
The living we enslave,
The living we starve,
The living we imprison and then
The living we are expected to respect.
Wha, sense it does not make.
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Re: Showing more respect for the dead than the living
FTFM.
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The Last Ship - burn dead people for fuel
The Last Ship S02E01. If you haven't been watching this show... do yourself a favor and watch all of S01 before hitting this ep... it's not a fun one.
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Dead Guy vs. Dead Guy
If I can be sued for a copyright violation after the original author's death, then I should still be legally answerable for the same violation after my own death.
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Re: Dead Guy vs. Dead Guy
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Granny soup
Not the thing you wish to dwell on at a stressful time in life.
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But never mind that, think of the coffin makers man, you don't want them to go the way of the buggy whip makers do you?!
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