ecological corpse disposal plan

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http://www.news.com.au/features/environ ... 5889434108

This probably depends on your view of the afterlife. For my part, I would like a good death (incidentally, 'euthanasia' means 'good death'). I would like to die with my cat sitting on my head (it's amazing what you can get used to when you sleep). But I'm an atheist and once I'm dead, I don't care what is done with the dead meat.

I suspect that this is not the popular view

Soylent Green is ecologically sound.

Doesn't bother me, when I was younger I used to think I'd want to be preserved in some sort of ice monument on the south pole (I also was plotting world domination). As is though I'd like whatever is left of me when I die to take up as little resources and space as possible. Let me know when they figure out how to turn this green-brown fluid into gasoline though, I might just enjoy the thought of being burned as fuel a little too much.

What's wrong with a standard hole-in-the-ground burial out in a field somewhere? Plant a couple of trees to absorb that corpsy goodness and you've got yourself a forest in the making. Sometimes people attempt to apply a complicated scientific solution where brute but simple methods are available.

They can throw my body into a landfill for all I care.

One way or another I will be finished with it and I don't want my relatives guilt tripped into buying a solid mahogany casket with silk padding so I will be "comfortable".

All flesh is grass....

Just pour me out in the garden, and make sure you add some calcium to prevent blossom end rot
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ARTIST: Guy Clark
TITLE: Homegrown Tomatoes
Lyrics and Chords


There's nothin' in the world that I like better than
Bacon, lettuce and home grown tomatoes
Up in the morning and out in the garden
Pick you a ripe one, don't get a hard 'un
Plant 'em in the springtime eat 'em in the summer
All winter without 'em's a culinary bummer
I forget all about the sweatin' and the diggin'
Every time I go out and pick me a big'un

/ C - / F - / G7 - / C - / :

{Refrain}
Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes
What'd life be without home grown tomatoes
There's only two things that money can't buy
That's true love and home grown tomatoes

You can go out and eat 'em, that's for sure
But there's nothin' a home grown tomato won't cure
You can put 'em in a salad, put 'em in a stew
You can make your own, very own tomato juice
You can eat 'em with eggs, you can eat 'em with gravy
You can eat 'em with beans, pinto or navy
Put em on the side, put em on the middle
Home grown tomatoes on a hot cake griddle

{Refrain}

If I could change this life I lead
You could call me Johnny Tomato Seed
I know what this country needs
It's home grown tomatoes in every yard you see
When I die don't bury me
In a box in a cold dark cemetery
Out in the garden would be much better
Where I could be pushin' up home grown tomatoes

My first choice is cremation, second choice is wooden coffin without a vault; its not that important to me though.

I find the idea of autoclaving human remains in caustic potash as very distasteful. I am disgusted at the idea.

When I go I would like a coffin made of bronze with a SS316L (The nitric acid resistant grade of stainless steel used for nuclear systems) liner for extra mechanical strength, or maybe just go for a zirconium coffin with a zirconium lid TIG welded shut. I think that this coffin would last longer than the pyramids if it was placed in the ground.

When aliens then find the coffin in thousands of years they would think that they have found something very interesting

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Health is a state of physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity I am not a jigsaw, I am a free man !

Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.

Why not just BBQ the dead for he homeless?