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ren

A Green new burial
« on: September 12, 2022, 12:20:50 PM »
https://orionmagazine.org/article/luke-perry-mushroom-shroud-90210-riverdale/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Green burial, as such wishes are known, is gaining in popularity. In 2022, a study by the National Funeral Directors Association showed that 60.5 percent of respondents were interested in green burial, up 5 percent from the year before. USCatholic.org ran a poll in 2011 in which 80 percent said they’d prefer a greener burial if they had the option. People cite the lower cost (no embalming, simple caskets, no crematorium fees or cemetery maintenance), a lighter footprint (no embalming again, no fossil fuels or vaporized heavy metals), and a better connection to the earth (carbon dioxide is a pollutant). But the desire precedes the technology, and much of what’s being marketed today is the idea of a green funeral.

Most of us have seen the picture of a tree with the pod at its roots. Inside the womb-like pod, in the fetal position, is the deceased. The language promotes this as a way to feed and nourish a tree, although a body in early-stage decomposition releases enzymes that are harmful to plant roots and chase its life away. Maybe you’ve seen the tree with a compartment in the dirt for cremated remains, but those turn as hard as concrete when mixed with water. There has to be an intermediary.

Enter the mushroom burial shroud. Fungi are decomposers, and the easiest way to think of them is as a sort of expanding, underground plaster. They spread out in the seams of the soil and can become very large—those capped stalks we see are merely the small fruiting bodies. Over eons, fungi have learned to handle death and convert it into nutrients, which they then trade with plants for carbon and sugar. An estimated 90 percent of plants are connected to this network, but most of the trade is in plant-derived decay.
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changemyoil66

Re: A Green new burial
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2022, 12:26:48 PM »
I've seen the illustration of the dead guy in the fetal position. But how does 1 get someone with rigamortiz into that position? 

In 2020 when CV was in its prime in China, their carbon levels went off the chart...I wonder what caused that.
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Flapp_Jackson

Re: A Green new burial
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2022, 01:06:40 PM »
If you want a "Green" method of turning you body into something useful,

think "Soylent" ...
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groveler

Re: A Green new burial
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2022, 09:57:21 PM »
Quote from: changemyoil66 on September 12, 2022, 12:26:48 PM
I've seen the illustration of the dead guy in the fetal position. But how does 1 get someone with rigamortiz into that position? 

In 2020 when CV was in its prime in China, their carbon levels went off the chart...I wonder what caused that.
IIRC Rigor mortis is temporary. 4 days max.
 :geekdanc:
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Flapp_Jackson

Re: A Green new burial
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2022, 10:18:39 PM »
Quote from: groveler on September 12, 2022, 09:57:21 PM
IIRC Rigor mortis is temporary. 4 days max.
 :geekdanc:

From what I've seen/read, rigor starts as soon as 4 hours after death though environmental factors can speed or slow the process.  Rigor begins to pass within hours of achieving "full rigor", and rarely lasts longer than 8 hours -- that's if the body is at "room temp" the whole time. 

It's so predictable you can estimate the time of someone's death reasonably well by observing which stage of rigor they are in.  Since the signs of just beginning rigor and coming out of rigor are similar (just traveling in opposite directions), other factors are useful to validate the rigor guess-timate.

So, if you're anticipating having to move a body, plan accordingly.   Fresher is better.  :thumbsup: :geekdanc:

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ren

Re: A Green new burial
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2022, 10:28:27 PM »
Yoga and stretching exercises help :thumbsup:
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QUIETShooter

Re: A Green new burial
« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2022, 05:49:45 AM »
Quote from: groveler on September 12, 2022, 09:57:21 PM
IIRC Rigor mortis is temporary. 4 days max.
 :geekdanc:


Quote from: Flapp_Jackson on September 12, 2022, 10:18:39 PM
From what I've seen/read, rigor starts as soon as 4 hours after death though environmental factors can speed or slow the process.  Rigor begins to pass within hours of achieving "full rigor", and rarely lasts longer than 8 hours -- that's if the body is at "room temp" the whole time. 

It's so predictable you can estimate the time of someone's death reasonably well by observing which stage of rigor they are in.  Since the signs of just beginning rigor and coming out of rigor are similar (just traveling in opposite directions), other factors are useful to validate the rigor guess-timate.

So, if you're anticipating having to move a body, plan accordingly.   Fresher is better.  :thumbsup: :geekdanc:



Interesting.  I didn't know this.  Thanks for the information, guys!  :shaka:  And all this time I was thinking the remedy would be like how we tenderize tako:  by pounding.

Get a 2X4 and pound and pound and pound......... ;D  ;)
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