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Which is what burial also accomplishes. What’s composting a human body outside of a burial?
by dyauspitr 3y ago
Which is what burial also accomplishes. What’s composting a human body outside of a burial?
- mos_basik 3y agoI think the difference is that if you go to a funeral home in the US and say "I'd like one burial, plain, no sugar" you will end up dressed in fancy clothes, filled with formaldehyde and a decent amount of sawdust, lying on soft polyester cushions and frills in a fancy varnished hardwood box with a lacquer finish and nearly airtight seal. This goes into the ground and then (I'm less to believe) largely doesn't change for decades. Whereas if you go to a human composting place and ask to be composted, you get packed into a tube with enough wood chips and straw to create the right carbon to nitrogen ratio and a few scoops of microbes and fungi and held at an optimum temperature and oxygen content until you turn into soil. Then you get delivered in the back of a pickup truck and hopefully someone uses you to plant a tree or something. Not to say that burial is always mutually exclusive with returning your nutrients to the earth - just that the default approach to burial these days isn't so good at it.
- defrost 3y agoOddly enough, from 7 days ago: What is human composting and should it be legalised? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-27/calls-to-legalise-human-composting-for-eco-friendly-burials/103677926 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-27/calls-to-legalise-hum... mos_basik mostly has it aside from bone grinding at some point, human skulls turning over in the market garden can be disconcerting and a nuisance for law enforcement so it's considered polite to remove and|or grind them.