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
- 41k - Cached - Similar pages
Composting Dead Bodies? -- 2001 (613): 3 -- ScienceNOW
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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