Everyone dies, so why not go out as a tree?

[CrispyQ]

Everyone dies, so why not go out as a tree?
How Denver death doulas and modern undertakers are using water cremation and conversation to change the death industry.

https://denverite.com/2021/01/13/everyone-dies-so-why-not-go-out-as-a-tree/

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On a November day that feels way too warm for November, urban farmer Eric Rooney stands in his sun-drenched garden, a place that nourishes life, and explains why he won’t use human remains to fertilize things that people eat.

There’s a “perceived ethical issue,” he says.

But to fertilize the flowers and trees he sells to customers, Rooney, who owns Half Moon Farm and Rooney Bloom in Lakewood, will use — reuse, really — a mixture of amino acids, peptides, sugars and water that once comprised people.

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...Be a Tree, a small “water cremation” center in Sun Valley owned by Emily Nelson that opens Friday. Alkaline hydrolysis is the less friendly term for what Nelson does, which entails dissolving the bodies of her clients in a mixture of water and alkaline that breaks down tissue and erases DNA. When the turbo-decomposition is over, each person becomes about 300 gallons of liquid that, it turns out, is an amazing fertilizer. A decedent’s family can use some, all, or none of the “tree tea” to plant trees or flowers themselves, but Nelson says most of the remains will likely end up at Half Moon Farm where, in a way, they will bring people back to life.

Interesting. It's been many, many years since I read it, but I was reminded of "Speaker for the Dead."

[samnsara]

1. wash state has just legalized human fertilizer...ewww

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Fascinating! I always knew, of course, that we could be fertilizer, but never imagined...

someone's actually doing it.

Soylent Green updated.

[Generic Brad]

3. Make like a tree and leave?

[Blue Owl]

9. Ba-Dum *Tish*

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

4. I still want my mushroom burial suit.

One article

https://www.newsweek.com/what-mushroom-burial-suit-luke-perrys-final-wishes-included-being-buried-one-1415363

[lapfog_1]

5. A concept described by Robert Heinlein

in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"

wherein Lunar colony families would have a garden "tunnel" where they put their deceased, to grow flowers and bushes.

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. +1

[genxlib]

6. It is reminiscent ot the Speaker for the Dead novel

For those of you unfamiliar, it is one of the sequels to Ender's Game.

Always liked those books.

Shame that Orson Scott Card is such a homophobic jackass

[Chainfire]

8. Why not Soylent Green?

A little body burger for a body builder? Let no proteins go to waste.