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Urban Death Project Aims To Rebuild Our Soil By Composting Corpses (inhabitat.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bring-out-your-dead dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Urban Death Project utilizes the process of composting to safely and gently turn our deceased into soil-building material, creating a meaningful, equitable and ecological urban alternative to existing options for the disposition of the dead," said Katrina Spade, a designer based in Seattle. "The project is a solution to the overcrowding of city cemeteries, a sustainable method of disposing of our dead, and a new ritual for laying our loved ones to rest."

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  1. Kind of like sky burial by ClickOnThis · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sky burial has been practiced in Tibet for millennia.

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  2. Re:Incinerate me by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And mix the ashes with a tad of soil and use that to plant a tree in a vase, when the tree grows a little, transplant it to ground.

    But DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES compost me!

    PS: In reality, my ashes will be thrown at sea. BUT DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES compost me!

    Cannot imagine whay that would bother you. Composting will certainly give back to the earth and to future generations.

    I have to note that I wanted cremated and flushed down the toilet at either a stripper bar or McDonald's. But this could be interesting. I'm envisioning my corpse being fed to one of those instant grinders like they use for rooster chicks (since only the hens lay eggs, and it's about a 50:50 mix at birth, so you do the math - then turning me into a nice compost for flowers or veggies.

    Would vegans refuse to eat veggies grown from human content compost?

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  3. Don't care by Snotnose · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The person in charge of me and my stuff when I'm gone knows 1 thing: as long as I'm dead I don't care what you do with me. Cremate me, bury me, donate me to science, chop me in pieces and toss me in the trash, I don't care. Just make sure I'm dead first.

  4. Re:Pretty cool by Iconoc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When expanding highway 75, the main North/South artery that passes the downtown Dallas area around 1990, ground from an old forgotten cemetery was disturbed, and some of the construction workers were getting sick. Here is a few details of what they found. http://www.cemeteries-of-tx.co...

    That this "idea" comes from Seattle should be one of your first clues that this is a bad idea.