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Simple idea: If you're opposed to cremation, consider a
Fused Glass Sarcophagus. It is a mass of glass frit melted
into a box or sphere containing a corpse --in this case,
your
corpse (we'll all have one eventually).
This should be a durable, inexpensive, and unique way of
preserving your
remains well into a future that may or may
not have any living humans in it.
Having worked with glass a little bit in college, I know a
lot is possible in terms of color, artistic composition, and
degrees of transparency.
For those of us that care about recycling, imagine that
your
final resting place could double as a sink for many
hundreds of beer bottles, broken windows, etc.
Personally, I plan to be cremated and tossed into the river
that runs through my hometown. If I change my mind, I
think I would choose an mostly opaque, multi-colored,
fully recycled glass cube.
What about you?
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I perceive a problem that can be called "locking
biomass away from the overall Ecology", every time
a coffin is filled and sealed. |
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People do that because of Religions that claim
they can be resurrected by God. The problem
there is, Religions think God is incompetent, that
God is somehow unable to re-build a body from
memory, and so needs to have the body present in
order to bring someone back to life. |
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Assuming that God is actually as capable as implied
by other claims, then there is absolutely no reason
to waste landscape on cemeteries. Bodies should
be ground up and then dehydrated and then
pulverized and then spread across farmland as
fertilizer. |
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Oh great; I had just narrowed the choices down to ashes internment as a garden gnome or full-body display in a solid piece of Lexan and now there's another one. |
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(+) You might want to rethink having your ashes scattered into a river though.
It has to do with radioactivity in the ashes or something. |
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// radioactivity in the ashes // |
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More likely to be mercury from amalgam fillings. |
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// Personally, I plan to be cremated and tossed into the river that runs through my hometown... What about you?// |
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We too would choose to cremate you and toss your ashes in a river. But any river would do. Or indeed, the nearest street drain ... |
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Vernon, if you're worried about locking away
biomass- |
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Total biomass of all humans living: 100 million
tonnes C. |
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Total biomass of all humans ever: 1,500 million
tonnes C. |
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Total biomass of all living organisms: 350,000 million
tonnes C. |
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Even if every human from the dawn of the species
had been buried with this method, less than half a
percent of the ecosystem's biomass would have
been locked away. |
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//What about you?// I think you've influenced me. I
might like to be cremated, and then the ashes divvied
up so a small amount goes into each of a reasonable
number of glass marbles, internally engraved with my
identifying info, and given to my grandchildren. Then
I won't be the only one to have lost my marbles. |
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If I'm buried in a pine box in the middle of a pine
forest, as it rots away, is that cannibalism? |
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[+] I think this would look cool like an art piece. |
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