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Soon your dead body will be dissolved or frozen to dust

...thermal depolymerization, and turning corpses into diesel, essentially, such as being done near the Butterball Turkey plant in Carthage, Mo.?

The article says "burial was by far the most environmentally damaging, as it takes up land space." I have always been grateful for cemetaries in an urban enviroment. If they weren't there the land would probably have been developed and paved over. RIP.

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It's open space, but it's not as good as having a public park

consider having your remains mixed with concrete to make these cones, which are used to stabalize coastlines. You can protect your country even after you are gone this way.http://www.netl.doe.gov/kmd/cds/disk23/E-Regulatory%20Streamlining/General%5C92002%5CMT92002-11%20Final%20%2009-95%20.pdf
I proposed this as a possible business venture but never could get it going. Feel free

G'morning, join me for coffee? Nah, return them back to the soil in a sterile, useable condition to help replenish the materials they took out of the earth's soil while living. Recycle baby !


Don Jose de La Mancha

Uh, huh. Like disposal of highly caustic potassium hydroxide bio-goo is not an environmental problem. And cryomation? What happens when the "dust" thaws to room temperature and is exposed to moisture? Yeah, that's right, more bio-goo. Resomation? You get the bone dust, but what about... the bio-goo?

Get a window seat on your next cross country flight. Look at all that empty land in fly over country. No room for burials? Yeah, right. Try again, Rachel.

1. How portable are these methods?
2. How fast can you turn a body into goo/dust?
3. What DNA signature, if any, is left?

So what do we suppose will happen next when a body can be "disappeared" without a trace in an hour or two? Sounds like great material for a movie plot ... only it won't be a movie.

Tours of San Simeon aka Hearst Castle begin at an ancient Roman ceramic container that was used for dissolving corpses in acid.

We've been discussing an offer from relatives to be dumped in a hole in their Missouri farmland--wooden box optional, no prep other than being dead. Burial does not require perpetual care. Maybe I would make good fertilizer. I don't know, but I'll bet corn would still grow.

A tree for each body buried. Choose your tree and inscribe your soul on it. Life moves on within.

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