treehugger.com — The BBC's ethical man series has covered all aspects of trying to live a modern, ethical life. As the series comes to an end he explores a viewers offer to compost his corpse, and all the technical and legal difficulties that would stand in his way.
Apr 6, 2007 View in Crawl 4
mosatiiApr 7, 2007
I would prefer a funeral pyre myself (not the normal method of cremation).Any legal way to do that?
rajidApr 7, 2007
Using "whence" was good, but it's "whence it came", not "from whence it came". "Whence" means "from where"; the "from" is included already.
Closed AccountApr 7, 2007
burying ppl is f**king stupid, everyone should be creamated it should be law, i dont give a f**k about your idiotic religious beleifs<a class="user" href="http://thecreationfallacy.blogspot.com/">http://thecreationfallacy.blogspot.com/</a>
zippoApr 7, 2007
NEW: Soilent Green brand fertilizer!
Closed AccountApr 7, 2007
Ha I thought the title said "iCompost."
farbantiApr 7, 2007
What happened to cryogenic freezing? Then in the future we can just wake them up and ask them if they were murdered... "Welcome, to the world of tomorrow"
bagelsApr 7, 2007
What about donating your body to science or to medicine? Or donating all your internal organs, blood and hair? Let your body help future generations with your parts and help the environment by not going through that burial/cremation BS.
pingviiniApr 7, 2007
I was thinking that my funeral would be more of a party than anything else. Huge funeral pyre on a boat (viking style), drinking shooting, laughter, merriment and fun.
fennecfoxenApr 8, 2007
"Preserving it keeps your relatives from having to face reality, and prolongs the suffering of their ignorance, keeping alive the unnatural association of your consciousness with a piece of dead meat that is rotting and returning from whence it came."Or, alternatively, preserving it (at least a while) maintains a modicum of dignity and respect for the memory of the individual, and can assist a grief-stricken family in coping with and ultimately coming to terms with their loss. This is why the deceased are dressed up for their funerals- so that our last memories of seeing them (or at least their body) can be good ones. It's entirely natural for people to think of the health and the integrity of the physical body when it is alive; seeing a body in damaged condition can elicit some pretty strong reactions from people, doubly so for a friend, relative, or loved one. That this association, entirely valid for the seventy-eighty-whatever years of the life of a person, somehow manages to persist a week or two beyond death should be entirely unsurprising.Now, it's not entirely logical thinking, but whoever said the human race was logical, Mr. Spock? Indeed, the irrationality of these sorts of emotions forms the basis for so much of what we commonly consider valuable and "human". They assist us in maintaining certain important principles of human and societal interaction which might otherwise be forgotten.
crossersJul 19, 2008
he's crazy really! and what fantastic and crazy ideas people have!<a class="user" href="http://www.shpe-sac.org">http://www.shpe-sac.org</a><a class="user" href="http://www.ocflex.com/">http://www.ocflex.com/</a> <a class="user" href="http://www.trgovinca.org">http://www.trgovinca.org</a><a class="user" href="http://www.chasr.org/">http://www.chasr.org/</a>
masskurecMar 3, 2009
another composter<a class="user" href="http://xptweak.net">http://xptweak.net</a>