I would like for everyone to acctually put some thought into their answers, not just say that this is a disgusting thread and should get locked.
The only reason I bring up a subject like this, is that so many humans die every day, and the most common way to dipose of them is to put them in a coffon/urn and bury them in the ground. That is not ecological in the least.
If you get cremated your body is releasing harmful gasses into the air, and if you get buried then your coffin has just taken up a plot of earth that will take a long time to grow any plants on it.
I think that there are a few ways to make disposing of human corpses more ecologically friendly, but I want to see what you people think of first.
I recall the freeze drying method which inovlves freezing a corpse in liquid nitrogen and shattering it into a fine powder via vibration. The power is then disposed of in a biodegradable coffin/container/whatever.
Many people say you should send mass corpses into the sun but that is actually too expensive. What they should do is uh.. well what knight said. But where would you put the powder. The ocean or scatter it most likely. Or dog food whichever easier.
The powder is then disposed of in a biodegradable coffin/container/whatever.
Fix'd. Oh, and that's how we dispose of the powder Efan. It ought to be placed in some sort of biodegradable container. Since the powder will decompose it's alright to bury it in the ground.
Similar to Knight, I was going to suggest putting corpses into a cryogenic state and then doing something from there. Shattering them sounds good, or just putting them in the ocean somewhere, as the ice is unlikely to ever melt in the colder oceans.
But where would you put the powder.
If the vibrations were fewer you could always have a few extra ice cubes to put in your Coke.
Honestly, I bet starting a compost pile would be pretty good. Mix it in with some worms, newspaper, grass clippings and I'd bet you'd have great fertilizer.
Honestly, I bet starting a compost pile would be pretty good. Mix it in with some worms, newspaper, grass clippings and I'd bet you'd have great fertilizer.
or just putting them in the ocean somewhere, as the ice is unlikely to ever melt in the colder oceans.
well it's not like the polar ice caps are melting or anything....
i think it would be good to just bury them in a biodegradable coffin, leave it at that. As far as cremation goes, they're not just burning it for the hell of it a good amount of people who have their loved ones cremated, they keep the ashes for themselves....:'(
Am I the only one who can't stop thinking of the Tri-State Crematory? Where that man didn't cremate 300+ bodies? Yeah, that was ten minutes from my hometown. ._.
Throw 'em to the lions at the closest zoo. Doesn't have to be lions either. Tigers, crocodiles, hyenas, bunnies, whatever. Animal food's got to be an ecological way to dispose of corpses.
Someone already said compost pile, so right now, I don't believe that can get more ecological than that. Really, what you can do while still being traditional is have biodegradable coffins. Eventually, we aren't going to have enough room for cemeteries
Why not harvest them? Humans can be burned, why not use them as fuel to provide energy?
Because you can't. Skin burns easily. Muscles can't work for fuel. And 50% of dead bodies are water, so it's like adding water as fuel, but it doesn't work. Bones will just break the oil tank and then will probably explode
