People just dying to go green

SUBMAN1 · 04-22-08, 04:59 PM

Tree huggers are decending upon us! Run!!!

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Green funerals turn ashes to eco-dust

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...s_N.htm?csp=34

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Platapus · 04-22-08, 06:43 PM

Outstanding. I never understood the concept of pumping preservatives into a dead body and then burying them in an airtight container

They are dead. Dead things should decompose. That's nature.

Besides anyway we can stop giving money to the rip-off artists in the mortuary industry gets my vote

August · 04-22-08, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

Outstanding. I never understood the concept of pumping preservatives into a dead body and then burying them in an airtight container

They are dead. Dead things should decompose. That's nature.

Besides anyway we can stop giving money to the rip-off artists in the mortuary industry gets my vote

Agree 100%

When my father passed on we had to buy a $3000 casket to cremate him in.

Platapus · 04-22-08, 08:20 PM

Did they tell you that you had to have your father embalmed before being cremated?

My respects to your father and his memory.

August · 04-22-08, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

Did they tell you that you had to have your father embalmed before being cremated?

My respects to your father and his memory.

Thanks. Yeah he was embalmed. We had to so his casket could be opened during the wake.

CCIP · 04-22-08, 08:36 PM

I've always thought the same too. I would much rather be dumped somewhere than cremated.

Honestly, I keep telling people that when I die, I wish my body could be dumped into a ditch somewhere, and my skull made into a handy souvenir or something.
In realistic terms though, I'm seriously considering writing my body off as a donation to research or one of those creepy body farms. Later on, though - I don't even have a real will yet, seeing how I don't have anything to will anyone except my student loan papers

Stealth Hunter · 04-22-08, 08:52 PM

I quite frankly don't care what's done with my body when I'm dead... I'm dead... so I really don't have much to care about, now do I? Throw me in some pit, toss me in the ocean, burn me to ashes and let me blow into the wind, it really doesn't matter.

Platapus · 04-22-08, 08:59 PM

If I had my choice, when I die I want all the organs that can be reused taken out

What's left I want taken in a helicopter over the middle of some large forest and dropped out.

Hundreds of animals can feed upon me and countless bacteria can benefit from my death.

Reuse, that is nature's plan and I support that.

04-22-08, 06:43 PM	#2
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,361 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Outstanding. I never understood the concept of pumping preservatives into a dead body and then burying them in an airtight container They are dead. Dead things should decompose. That's nature. Besides anyway we can stop giving money to the rip-off artists in the mortuary industry gets my vote __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

04-22-08, 08:20 PM	#4
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,361 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Did they tell you that you had to have your father embalmed before being cremated? My respects to your father and his memory. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

04-22-08, 08:36 PM	#6
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	I've always thought the same too. I would much rather be dumped somewhere than cremated. Honestly, I keep telling people that when I die, I wish my body could be dumped into a ditch somewhere, and my skull made into a handy souvenir or something. In realistic terms though, I'm seriously considering writing my body off as a donation to research or one of those creepy body farms. Later on, though - I don't even have a real will yet, seeing how I don't have anything to will anyone except my student loan papers __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

04-22-08, 08:59 PM	#8
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,361 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	If I had my choice, when I die I want all the organs that can be reused taken out What's left I want taken in a helicopter over the middle of some large forest and dropped out. Hundreds of animals can feed upon me and countless bacteria can benefit from my death. Reuse, that is nature's plan and I support that. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

04-22-08, 08:52 PM	#7
Stealth Hunter Silent Hunter Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Y'ha-Nthlei Posts: 4,262 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	I quite frankly don't care what's done with my body when I'm dead... I'm dead... so I really don't have much to care about, now do I? Throw me in some pit, toss me in the ocean, burn me to ashes and let me blow into the wind, it really doesn't matter.