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.
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:05 AM, <yarrow@sfo.com> wrote:
At 4:50 PM -0400 5/26/08, trevor william johnson wrote:
also in jenkins humanure handbook he says that we have been usingGreen burials? I've heard of several around the world, AFAIK without
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 ...
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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