Was listening to NPR and heard this ver cool show about arranging composting our bodies when we die. I have always thought embalming and being put in a box is ghoulish. I don't like funerals and viewings are the worst. This seems even better than cremation. I hD mot heard of it, but remember frequenting cemeteries with my grandparents still traumatized by seeing my great grandmotherin her coffin. I thought it was awful. my grandmother told me itcwas archaic and would be done more sensibly when I grew up. She would be 105 now --took jer aong time to be right about this.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.One of the first certified composting funeral homes is located in in Seattle. [ecowatch.com]
JackPedigo
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Mar 17, 2021
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I think it was mentioned though I listened to a few others on npr on subject. It makes sense to me
I've donated my body to the local medical school.
LenHazell53
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Mar 17, 2021
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Perfect example of what ignoring all medical advice, can do to the human body ?
@Fernapple not sure I understand what you mean
That is cool. I loved that idea when I read the book Stiff.: The Curious life of human cadavers. It was so touching. How the med students got to know the cadaver assigned them as the body told its story. For instance one broke their arm as a child. One cadaver was a doctor and had a tattoo on her butt that was a message to whoever got her body.
@LenHazell53 Sorry, deleted a stray coma, think it makes more sense now.
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