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[–] 24 points 11 months ago (17 children)

People are so toxic that they want to be toxic after they die too.

I just want to be dumped off at the landfill or ground up and used for fertilizer after giving up any useful organs.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    It’s surprisingly difficult to get that treatment.

    Just compost me. Throw my body into the green cart. Why do I need to spend so much money?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (4 children)

    Holy bourgeoise, batman! Just befriend a rancher. We are all compost in training, it's not that hard

    e: fr tho, nothing illegal about just getting dropped in a hole as-is on private property most places

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    nothing illegal about just getting dropped in a hole as-is on private property most places

    That’s not true for good reason- people who don’t know what they’re doing could contaminate groundwater/runoff very easily.

    It shouldn’t be as expensive as it is, and I’d support dropping unembalmed corpses without certain diseases (an asymptomatic or undiagnosed prion disease could be incredibly dangerous) in a hole, as long as they are adequately buried. That would require an autopsy and either significant refrigeration costs or a rushed job without embalming though.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    USAMap-Home-Burial-5-1-19.jpg

    You seem to have linked to the entire wikipedia article on body disposal, possibly without reading it. Here's a map, some info from a funeral home, and legal advice state by state. Sorry if this is too US-centric, that's where I've been through the process five times.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    This is the relevant section from the wiki:

    Many jurisdictions have enacted regulations relating to the disposal of human bodies. Although it may be entirely legal to bury a deceased family member, the law may restrict the locations in which this activity is allowed, in some cases expressly limiting burials to property controlled by specific, licensed institutions. Furthermore, in many places, failure to properly dispose of a body is a crime. In some places, it is also a crime to fail to report a death, and to fail to report the disposal of the body.[37]

    From your link:

    Having a grave too close to a water source is either not wise or not legal. It also may not be permitted to have a gravesite within a certain distance of a building or your property line. These are called setbacks, and setback laws are different for each state. Often, setback rules make it all but impossible to put a grave in someone’s urban or suburban property without breaking the law.

    I’d be interested in how widespread the legality is practically, because (reasonably) everything I looked at said to check local laws, but I can understand why that’s not included exhaustively. My family tried to in a rural area of a non rural state where the sources say it’s allowed, but the setbacks made it practically impossible- watershed areas are larger than you would expect, even without visible bodies of water nearby.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Well, my original suggestion was to befriend a rancher... not an expert and can't speak as to exactly how widespread it is (or even if this was legal I guess), but anecdotally all it took was asking around a little. Nice spot on a hill, few people/critters already buried there, felt right, cost nothing. Two generations in and I'd like to be a third. If that's not widely accessible I wish it were, from this end I've never heard of a $7k human composting service and it sounds way crazier to me than just getting buried in a pasture

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    Had this conversation recently when my wife died. She wanted to be cremated with no embalming but wanted a visitation. In the US you have to be embalmed to have a visitation. No amount of pleading to just put her in an ice bath would work sadly.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    You can't have a visitation with someone who has been cremated? Are you positive thats not a state specific thing?

    Maybe there is something else you can call it? It just surprises me because my grandmother and an uncle where both cremated, and we had services. I thought they were visitations.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago* (4 children)

    I think they meant she wanted her body to be seen before cremation, and the funeral home wouldn't do that without embalming her.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    because the funereal business is a sham.

    can't have y without x and if you get x you need z. we've conveniently packaged it together in our x-z package for a low cost of $6999. isn't this what the dearly departed would want from you? don't they deserve the best??

    and that's why I'm a complete fucking asshole. I don't deserve the best. I deserve to rot in a culvert on the outskirts of the airport.

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  • [–] 19 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    No added preservatives!

    THEY ARE ADDED PRESERVATIVES!

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I was gonna say. There's none added because that's what they are.

    "Oops, all preservatives."

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    "Oops, all preservatives."

    I think mass-produced factory loaves of bread also should include this on their labels because have you noticed the past couple decades that bread never gets moldy anymore, regardless how long it's neglected in its plastic packaging?

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Metaflow Arterial Conditioner looks delicious

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  • [–] 36 points 11 months ago

    purple one is to die for

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    [–] 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    From left to right; peach, watermelon, lemon, grape, apple, guava.

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    They look delicious, but I want to be deep fried when I die.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    I wish I could read all of that text clearly

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    I'll go with pink or whatever the colour on the right is.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    You know how when you were a kid you'd mix all the flavours from the soda fountain?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Introfiant for me thanks

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Imagine getting drunk, breaking into a morgue and seeing this.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    I'd think anything that involved an open casket would be red tinted. Who wants to see grandma in her casket with visibly green veins...

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    She always reminded us of a vulcan

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    What, there's no morticians on this platform to explain exactly what each of these does to a body?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Dodge like the car company? gnarly, going for that complete vertical integration achievement

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    It'd probably be one of the pink ones, but don't discount the orange or purple options or you might just be missing out. Green is sometimes surprisingly good, too. Yellow's usually something like lemonade, a solid choice, but almost never the best tasting choice and most of the other typical yellow associated flavors are disappointing at best.

    There's a part of me that's morbidly curious how all of these things work and how they're used.

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