While interesting, I never understood the need of people to preserve their decaying corpses, If I had the choice I would prefer to be tree substrate, but I can understand why that's not hygienic...
While interesting, I never understood the need of people to preserve their decaying corpses, If I had the choice I would prefer to be tree substrate, but I can understand why that's not hygienic or safe at scale if we let everyone simply burry corpses everywhere.
The two options in my country are cremation which seems wasteful and be encased in a cement tomb which is even more wasteful, needing space.
I have always been an advocate for sky burials, wanting one myself. People look at me like I'm crazy though. Just have a designated place to register bodies to lay out and become food for...
I have always been an advocate for sky burials, wanting one myself. People look at me like I'm crazy though.
Just have a designated place to register bodies to lay out and become food for critters. Toss me to the wolves in the zoo for all I care. I don't want my lifeless husk being a burden on anyone.
The article makes a point about enzymes and bacteria being present. Probably to a significant degree the removal of the digestive system before sealing in epoxy would go a long way towards mitigating that though?
Not sure it might work exactly the same just because things like the burger (and other foods i've seen similarly) tend to be pretty dry to start, whereas the human body is pretty wet. Perhaps...
Not sure it might work exactly the same just because things like the burger (and other foods i've seen similarly) tend to be pretty dry to start, whereas the human body is pretty wet. Perhaps drying out the human first might help it work better, but really, this entire topic is somewhat horrifying to me. lol
I'ma gonna stop you right there and just say that here again, I feel sometimes very very set apart from a lot of my fellow Americans… Because not me. I want to be cremated. I want my body to take...
Through embalming and sealed caskets advertised for “eternal rest,” the American funeral industry caters to our anxiety over bodily decay.
I'ma gonna stop you right there and just say that here again, I feel sometimes very very set apart from a lot of my fellow Americans… Because not me. I want to be cremated. I want my body to take up as little space as possible for as short of a time as possible once I'm dead, because it's just flesh and bone. Bio material. I will be gone, except hopefully in pleasant memories for a few for a while.
I think preserving human bodies is kinda horrifying. Taxidermy would probably bother me a lot more if I sat down to think about it¹.
¹ In the same way that many opinions changed when I went from a fundie Souhern Baptist through Messianic Judiasm, paganism, deism, and eventually atheism. Old views didn't change until something sparked me to reëxamine the topic; once done, I generally realized I held a different view than I thought I did (because I previously had).
While interesting, I never understood the need of people to preserve their decaying corpses, If I had the choice I would prefer to be tree substrate, but I can understand why that's not hygienic or safe at scale if we let everyone simply burry corpses everywhere.
The two options in my country are cremation which seems wasteful and be encased in a cement tomb which is even more wasteful, needing space.
Given the option, I would prefer a Sky burial
I have always been an advocate for sky burials, wanting one myself. People look at me like I'm crazy though.
Just have a designated place to register bodies to lay out and become food for critters. Toss me to the wolves in the zoo for all I care. I don't want my lifeless husk being a burden on anyone.
I have to wonder though, whether this is essentially possible. Take for example the 55 year old epoxy hamburger.
https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyfoodporn/comments/r79ohv/a_preserved_hamburger_from_1969_encased_in_resin/
The article makes a point about enzymes and bacteria being present. Probably to a significant degree the removal of the digestive system before sealing in epoxy would go a long way towards mitigating that though?
Not sure it might work exactly the same just because things like the burger (and other foods i've seen similarly) tend to be pretty dry to start, whereas the human body is pretty wet. Perhaps drying out the human first might help it work better, but really, this entire topic is somewhat horrifying to me. lol
I'ma gonna stop you right there and just say that here again, I feel sometimes very very set apart from a lot of my fellow Americans… Because not me. I want to be cremated. I want my body to take up as little space as possible for as short of a time as possible once I'm dead, because it's just flesh and bone. Bio material. I will be gone, except hopefully in pleasant memories for a few for a while.
I think preserving human bodies is kinda horrifying. Taxidermy would probably bother me a lot more if I sat down to think about it¹.
¹ In the same way that many opinions changed when I went from a fundie Souhern Baptist through Messianic Judiasm, paganism, deism, and eventually atheism. Old views didn't change until something sparked me to reëxamine the topic; once done, I generally realized I held a different view than I thought I did (because I previously had).