I'll Take Compost

[annuin]

Assuming I live long enough that this is at least introduced as a method of processing one's dead body (and with Australia and the Netherlands both having inquired after the process, that might be the case), sign me up.

http://www.promessa.se/index_en.asp

Sounds perfect. None of that embalming formaldehyde crap, no expensive caskets with useless satin lining and padding for that comfort I no longer need, no charring my remains and have my brain explode a hole in my skull in the process, no taking up a useless slot of space in a cemetery, no polluting the ground water or air with either process. And one can finally go back to the earth as was intended.

And for the symbolism, one can live on in the plant or tree which gets planted with you.

Comments

[catdraco.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I can write various clauses into my will, and share the info with the pertinent family and friends beforehand. I'm fine with being mulched for tissue experiments, dissolved into my component parts, and whatever else anyone can come up with - as long as it's in the pursuit of medical knowledge I don't mind. Actually, I doubt I'd mind much in any case at that stage... but you know what I mean.

My point of view is really that my body is not me - I view death as a kind of "moving out". I don't care what happens to a house I move out of. Same goes for my physical structure, though I'd prefer it to be used in a constructive fashion rather than wasted, if at all possible. =)

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

From what I gathered in the book, you can state certain things that you absolutely don't want your body used for, but other than that once it's dedicated to medical science, it goes where it's needed. Which can be a variety of things. Many of which are documented in the book, some more mindboggling than others, but all have their place.

And I definitely don't see my body as me when I die, and the odds of my donating parts once deceased are high... I don't smoke or drink, so odds are good that I'll have something usable, but I guess the rest can go become plant fodder :) Which is a concept I like, from a personal and ecological standpoint, and I think it also gives remaining relatives and friends a little reminder as well I guess.

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

I'm torn between those two options - plant a bush or tree on me, or send me to the lab? Maybe send me to the lab, and then plant a bush or tree on me. That would be cool.