Dead human recycling?

Question

Do you think in the interests of carbon footprints , energy conservation etc that it could be a good strategy to reuse human bodies in some way. It seems an awful waste to just burn or bury the body. surely burying a body in a casket is a waste and cremating must effect global warming.

Answer 1

THere is now an alternative the burial and cremation that involve freezing a body in liquid nitrogen, pulversing it to powder and dehydrating it.  Then you get soylent shake mix.  Or they can take it and intergrate it into a flower seed mat or something thike that.

Answer 2

Soylent Green, anyone?

Answer 3

By feeding the ground , the ground will feed you .

    

When the time comes ,you in turn should feed the ground to complete the cycle



In Mexico there are 100.million people  .About 1.5 %  die each year .

And .5 000 hectares of forests are doomed annually  because of this  custom .with the coffins.

Better to be buried ,sitting upright,  in a hole

covered with a bale of hay to speed up the decomposition,



underneath a tree (preferable  a  fruit tree).

Resulting in Sacred  orchards instead of  forests of concrete crosses.

This is legal any where as long as the local authorities have a record and the place is marked

Dust to dust( obey the laws of nature)

Any other ideas for recycling are best left to the imagination ,

Some may become a reality when times get hard ,

Already the pet breeding industry feeds the excess pets, that are bred ,  back to those still alive .

Watch the movie EARTHLINGS it is horrific ,what all goes on.

We are one step away from that.

They caught an old woman in Mexico city ,who had been selling tacos for years made with human flesh

Bon apatit

Answer 4

We already have this, it's called BECOME AN ORGAN DONOR.

Answer 5

Well, its becoming a trend with the eco-oriented folk.

"It" pertains to being buried in a biodegradable coffin, naked, with a simple rock plucked out of nature with a few engravings as a headstone. Naturally, after a long while, you'd become part of the Earth. I daresay that's what I'd like to do.

Answer 6

I have long said that after I die, I **really** won't care what happens to my body.  It does seem like a waste, the way we dispose of this organic matter.  I'm not happy with organ donations unless they take everything and use it for something.  Even grinding my body up for fertilizer does SOME good.

I WON'T CARE!!!

(the wife gets really upset when I talk that way)

Answer 7

Nope. That's not right.

Unless the human said, "It's okay to use  my body for this and this when im dead"

Answer 8

"Soylent Green is people" vs red which is algae.

If you  have never seen the 1973 movie I guess you wouldn't know.

http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Soylent_Gre...

Answer 9

I agree. Maybe we can use the gas that bloats in bodies after they die in the cars. I would do it. I mean i respect the dead, but honestly i think its just the new world that is so scared of death, death like life is needed. I would donate my body, of corse after all of my organs are donated if they are still good. I just dont think anyone would want to put any research in to that. Probably even talking about this is a blasphemy. But what better way to honor the dead than to use their bones to make a table (human bones can support more weight than reenforced concrete of the same size).

Answer 10

A body is nothing more that animated mud. Disposing, and any proposed use of cadavers is merely a health concern.  I have friends who are tattooed, earmarking their carcass for research when they are done with it.  it you can find a use for bodies I am all for it.

Answer 11

I am sure it is but where is the support coming from as you work toward this effort?

Answer 12

some people donate their bodies to science.

Answer 13

Human remains could become a fuel source. They will burn rather slowly with so much water in them.

A pyrolitic oven would have a limited amount of gas that could be separated and used as fuel, while a residue of carbon could be used as a soil amending material. A form of sequestration.. better than converting it to CO2,(or to methane as happens in the grave).

There would not be a lot of money to be made or saved.

Answer 14

Like Vee good's answer and there are places that will do just that - I think in VA and AZ (seriously.)

Look - it is a waste to manufacture caskets. But the human body - since we, on average, live a long time for mammals - is good at concentrating toxins. (Strange kind of karma going on there.)

Burial is a kind of "carbon sequestration." We should be buried in a biodegradable bag at the foot of a tree - so that the tree can absorb the toxins (they are good at that too), and reforestation is a good part of the answer to global warming, erosion, loss of watershed, etc.

Plus - why have a "beautiful red oak" casket that is going to be buried and - eventually rot - when you can have a beautiful red oak grave marker that will grow well over a hundred feet tall and live for as many years?

Also, it takes a couple of guys a little sweat equity to dig a hole.

Answer 15

How in the world are you going to reuse rotting flesh and blood? It's thoroughly disgusting and smells horrible. I won't buy a casket for myself because that's a waste of several thousand dollars to me. I choose cremation. Fires that occur every year in the forest create a lot more smoke than burning dead bodies.

Answer 16

dunno. have you seen "soylent green"?

Answer 17

I do remember reading about a green activist (can't remember his name) who spoke about this issue.

He said the energy required to burn the body down to ashes was huge. He advocated being sewn into a biodegradable sack and buried buried vertically.

At time of burial a tree was planted in the same spot which used the nutrients from the body as they were released into the soil. I thought that sounded good.

Can't see it catching on in a hurry though.