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At 3:23 PM -0400 5/19/09, trevor william johnson wrote:
> this thread is from may 28 2008 but i didn't quite get my questions
> answered.

I did a quick google on
composting human corpses
and got a ton of hits, mostly about freeze-drying 
first. Here are a few of them. I'd start by 
looking for Stiff by Mary Roach in the library.

Worldchanging: Bright Green: Alternatives to traditional burials

... developed Promessa, a method for recycling human corpses into fertilizer.
... I may like the idea of composting my body, but the health ...
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001657.html 
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Composting Dead Bodies? -- 2001 (613): 3 -- ScienceNOW

If public opinion proves favorable, Sweden may soon have a more 
environmentally
friendly way of disposing of dead bodies--freezing and composting them. ...
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2001/613/3 - Similar pages

Eco-Burial Turns Corpse to Compost - Blogcritics Culture

An environmentally friendly method of burying the dead is offering tough
competition to traditional funerals - transforming corpses into organic 
compost
and ...
http://blogcritics.org/culture/article/eco-burial-turns-corpse-to-compost/ 
- 42k - Cached - Similar pages

BBC NEWS | Talk about Newsnight | I'll compost your corpse

"I'll compost your corpse" has to be one of the most unusual offers I've ever
..... The ethics of composting corpses are equal to that of Zero Point Energy.
...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/2007/04/ill_compost_your_corpse_1.html 
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[USCC] A new twist on composting

There is an ongoing discussion on the issue of composting human corpses on the
web at http://www.weblife.org/forum/messages >Friday June 1 11:41 AM ET ...
http://mailman.cloudnet.com/pipermail/compost/2001-June/008369.html 
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www.dirtdoctor.com * 'Eco-burial turns corpse to compost' : Composting

The method consists of taking the corpse's 
temperature to minus 321 ... And like
all compost, human remains should be used to feed plants and shrubs, ...
http://www.dirtdoctor.com/newforum/root/eco-burial-turns-corpse-to-compost-t8321.html 
- 36k


Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

And she visits a woman in Scandinavia who's a the forefront of a movement to
transform corpses into burial compost. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human ...
http://www.scifidimensions.com/Dec05/stiff.htm - 27k - Cached - Similar pages

The Daily Undertaker, a Funeral and Memorial Service Journal

The process of promession involves a promator, freezing human remains in 
liquid
... The corpse is frozen down to -18 °C. 2. The coffin with the deceased is 
...
The starch coffin is buried shallowly and will turn into compost in 6 - 12 ...
http://www.dailyundertaker.com/2008/09/promession-return-to-living-soil.html 
- 132k - Cached - Similar pages

When We Die: The Science, Culture, and Rituals of Death

Using Corpses for Fertilizer, Fat, Leather Dead human bodies contain ... 
bodies
were 'composted' in special containers (see chapter 8) then methane, ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0312264119
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Wolfram Alpha
http://www48.wolframalpha.com/

I tried searching on "nitrogen"
http://www48.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=nitrogen

very interesting search engine now available for use