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I really don't care what happens after I'm dead, but my will specifies Natural Organic Reduction for myself. It's also called "Natural Burial" or "Human Composting"
Basically it's being buried without all the preservatives and chemicals, and in a plain wooden box with cotton or wool clothing, straight in dirt rather than in a concrete vault. It allows the body to naturally decompose and return to the earth.
That's better. It would make sense to avoid the box too.
Some places, like a company called Recompose, don't use the coffin. The body is placed in a cotton shroud, unclothed, and buried directly.
Probably the most ecofriendlu disposal of the deads. The way it 's usually done is pretty crazy, takes a ton of space and it doesn't decompose well. I heard in america it 's even crazier because they pump the body with chemicals to make it look good at the funeral.
They do. A typical American internment involves fully embalming the body, putting them into a coffin that is usually lined with steel under the ornate wood exterior and cushy padded interior. The coffin seals tightly, and then it's buried in a concrete vault with a concrete lid that is sealed in place with tar.
The body never decomposes, and it takes up an 8 foot by 6 foot plot of land for the rest of time.
Take a look at a typical American city and note how many cemeteries there are, and how much PRIME land they occupy.
That's way worse than I thought. That's the stupidest thing ever. It must also cost a fortune to do. European burial without cremation is already expensive.
The average cost of a funeral and burial in the United States is between $7,000 and $12,000.
It's incredibly expensive. What's sad is that natural burials cost even more, owing to the special permitting process that has to be gone through.
A cremation costs $6,000 or $7,000.
I wonder at what point the whole practice will stop, Imagine when you have a cemetery as big as a city, full of non decomposable bodies. At least here they do decompose, although slowly, and at some point bones are removed and stored in smaller places. Still stupid compared to a naked burial.
I think part of that comes from a strong tradition of Christian heritage, where some sects believe that during the second coming of Christ, our bodies will be reanimated and healed to be perfect versions of what we were when we were living. So the more well preserved the body is, the better.
Eastern Orthodox, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, the Roman Catholic Church, and some Pentecostal Churches all forbid cremation and believe that the body and soul are interconnected and that the body should be preserved for resurrection.
Totally mental, if you ask me.