permaculture

[Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>]

A friend of mine, Cynthia Beal, runs the Natural Burial Company, with 
compostable caskets and a lot of information on natural burial.
http://www.naturalburialcompany.com/

She told me that here in Oregon, and many other places, the law states 
that once land is a cemetery, it must remain a cemetery forever. That 
has interesting possibilities for land preservation. So she's working on 
setting up a string of cemeteries as greenbelts, wildlife corridors, 
and, ideally, permaculture landscapes. That could reduce the problem of 
Pc sites getting sold and destroyed.

Toby
http://patternliteracy.com



Dick Pierce wrote:
> I believe the concept of human composting is referred to in the trade as
> "Natural Burial" an there is a kindly and somewhat informative website at
> http://www.naturalburial.coop. I browsed it briefly and noted 2 sites in ME.
> These still retain the cemetary concept; I didn't read far enough to see if
> there were services that would bury a person on their property - hill-top,
> orchard, etc.,. The later is my wish - I'd like apples or corn to grow or
> feed grass-fed beef or chickens with my remains - or have the Lions come and
> lay down on my grave as with Robert Finch-Hadden in "Out of Africa".
>
> The above is slightly more acceptable to my family than the alternative
> available here - a farmer friend with a large, wind-row compost area just
> adds a dead cow/sheep to the wind-row, covers it with 8-10' of leaves/wood
> chips and "compost happens." Either method is acceptable to me.  -  Ashes to
> ashes, dust to dust, soil to soil.
>
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> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:05 AM, <yarrow@sfo.com> wrote:
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> > At 4:50 PM -0400 5/26/08, trevor william johnson wrote:
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> > > also in jenkins humanure handbook he says that we have been using
> > > composting to turn dead animals into compost.  he does not say
> > > anything about composting humans though.  i imagine the process is
> > > the same. does anyone out there know anything of this practice?  i  ...
> > >       
> > Green burials? I've heard of several around the world, AFAIK without
> > the embalming and concrete vaults and decorator coffins, where the
> > land is managed as a nature preserve.
> >
> > As for composting people specifically, several years ago I heard
> > someone from North Carolina on the radio talking about composting
> > people. I don't recall his name (or where he got his research
> > subjects).
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