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Originally Posted by Turtle
So I was watching evening news and they gave a report on the meth-freak-metal-thieves now stealing the plaques off graves.  Anyway, it prompted this fun & practical idea for solving global warming by sequestering carbon.... You're gonna love this.
We start pyrolizing the dead!  That's right; turn the bodies into charcoal, then bury with no box, and plant switchgrass on top. Resources saved on the box, carbon sequestered, renewable fuel terra preta'ed, karma satisfied. 
Better yet, if the body form stays together, we can have ourselves put in poses before carbonization, and mounted or otherwise utilized afterward. Well cared for, a body should last thousands of years.
We don't stop with just the recent dead either; we start digging up all bodies & carbonizing them, redeeming their sins of having dared to live in the first place by keeping them from sneaking back into the cycle. Honor thy father & they mother; have them carbonized today.    |
I've got a big smile on my face right now...love the switchgrass reference.
I'm all for it! Well...except for the post-humous factor.
It boggles my mind that I can't be buried in the soil with just my flesh (what's left of it) and bones. But what better way than to stick me on the barbi!
It's really brilliant in a certain sense. Why cremate, when you can become fuel for the pyrolosis?
Instead of spreading ashes in the sea, we could spread char in the soil.
You are what you eat you know.
