An Eco-Friendly Way to Dispose of Yourself
Resomation is a process that liquefies rather than burns body tissues. It uses about a sixth of the energy of cremation and has a much smaller carbon footprint…
Unlike cremation, resomation doesn’t vaporize the toxic mercury of dental fillings and doesn’t char joint implants, leaving them clean, shiny and potentially recyclable. The bone and tooth material can be ground into a fine ash, as with traditional cremains. The brown liquid, because it’s sterile, can go down the drain.
They’ve got these “green” cemeteries where they just wrap you up in biodegradable cloth and bury you in the woods on their land. Not even a pine box. No marker. You fertilize a tree, seems that’s about as eco-friendly as you can get. The only energy spent is the digging and the tree-planting.
Somehow the idea of being washed down the drain leaves me a bit uninspired.
Sounds like the first step of the Soylent™ process.
Am I alone in thinking that this is a somewhat gory post? Or do most readers want to know details like this?
I agree with Vicki. This is fairly gory.