“Boil in the bag. Like sous-vide,” explains one mourner to another. “You get flushed. Down the drain. Out to sea. The end.”
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Once I'm dead I want to be stuffed and mounted in a threatening pose, like a bear.
I notice it’s never compared to a traditional burial which is better for the environment.
Better only if no embalming.
I'm concerned about efficient land use in traditional burials. Where I live you will often see cemeteries in the middle of the town with graves that are so old that no living relatives will ever visit -- anybody who knew the deceased has long passed as well.
We don't need to preserve bodies, we need to dispose of them and let the living use the land instead. E.g. build proper parks with amenities for the living instead of hotels for the dead.
If people buy land it isn’t much different to anyone holding land for generations.
I guess the trouble with burial is that it takes a long time to decompose, so we end up taking up a shit ton of room.
There’s not a lot of space in the UK to be fair and the dead are not an opinionated bunch on the whole when it comes to their surroundings. While I’ve got nothing against this form of cremation I’m surprised we don’t have more of a culture of burial at sea given our maritime history, you get broken down into new life pretty quickly that way.
I personally want to be buried at sea, it’s good sportsmanship towards the fishes I’ll have caught over my life.
I think that's because burial uses space. Space is expensive. And we insist on burying people lying down instead of upright.
Melting people and flushing them down the toilet may be a way to solve overcrowding. I take issue with it being marketed as the eco option.
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Bring back sky burials. Let me be eaten by the birds
Insufficient number of birds. I think they got killed by diclofenac.
Something about 'boil in the bag' has me cracking up. Like you'd find these bags in the supermarket or something, all brightly colored in their packaging along the 'Death Supplies' aisle. Seriously though, it does sound better than cremation or embalming, though I'd like to get composted personally.