I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime
@fmfsaid I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
I suppose he feels the need to pay vegetables back.
@josephwsaid I'm going out into the desert to die. The vultures and critters and bugs can eat my dead body and the sun can bake my bones as they turn to dust.
I have no particular moral views over cremation versus some burial that (without non-biodegradable coffins and crypts, etc. ) means that my remains will be returned to the earthly components of which they are. [I’m not sure that cremation prevents that?]
I only have two (competing and conflicting) wishes:
(1) That I am simply and quickly disposed of, without the fuss and cost of any formal memorials (services, headstones, monuments etc.) at all; or
(2) That a non-sectarian mausoleum be erected with an eternal keg of ale, from which any passerby can freely draw a mug or two.
That second option is more than unlikely (given the personal economics involved). 😉