Human composting burial legalized in California

[Mike from NJ]

Human composting burial legalized in California

A note from the article:
Still, not everyone is pleased that human composting is becoming more popular. The California Catholic Conference submitted a letter in June opposing AB 351, saying it “reduces the human body to simply a disposable commodity.”

 

[Tinker Grey]

What do you think the Catholic church thinks happened to the human body before the advent of embalming? Yeah. Compost. Embalming, steel coffins, concrete encasements ... that's what's unnatural.

 

[sandman]

reduces the human body to simply a disposable commodity

That's what it is!
The body returns to dust ....
Soul life is breath life.... The life = (nephesh)=soul of the flesh is in the blood ... Lev 17:11
and that that ceases at death.

 

[CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN]

Human composting burial legalized in California

A note from the article:
Still, not everyone is pleased that human composting is becoming more popular. The California Catholic Conference submitted a letter in June opposing AB 351, saying it “reduces the human body to simply a disposable commodity.”

How is this any worse than cremations? If Religions don't like Human composting burial and cremations. They are free to bury their people, the way they want. Even though cemeteries would be better off turned into parks or flower garden.

 

[Mike from NJ]

What gets me is a person opting to be composted literally harms no one, and the CCC tried convincing legislators to not pass the law taking away that choice from people of all religions.

 

[Paulus59]

Human composting burial legalized in California

A note from the article:
Still, not everyone is pleased that human composting is becoming more popular. The California Catholic Conference submitted a letter in June opposing AB 351, saying it “reduces the human body to simply a disposable commodity.”

Sounds like a horrible way to process human bodies and who is going to do this job? You realize that maggots, flys and disgusting smell will be involved in this so-called composting process? I wouldn't do that job, so horrible. I will stick to cremation.

 

[FireDragon76]

Most states have laws against mishandling a human corpse, so the CCC's concerns are not completely invalid.

Catholics (and Eastern Orthodox) are also technically opposed to cremation unless there is an overwhelming public good served (such as the bodies being too dangerous to bury).

 

[kiwimac]

Most states have laws against mishandling a human corpse, so the CCC's concerns are not completely invalid.

Catholics (and Eastern Orthodox) are also technically opposed to cremation unless there is an overwhelming public good served (such as the bodies being too dangerous to bury).

They are entitled to their opinions but they don't get to make their opinions normative for all people.

 

[CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN]

Sounds like a horrible way to process human bodies and who is going to do this job? You realize that maggots, flys and disgusting smell will be involved in this so-called composting process? I wouldn't do that job, so horrible. I will stick to cremation.

Some just puts the deceased body in an 8-foot steel box surrounded by biodegradable materials like wood chips. The box is aerated to allow microbes and bacteria to grow. The remains are then decomposed into soil in about 30 to 60 days

My only issue is why steel box, when they can use cheap wood or big paper boxes and bury it 3 to 6 feet deep.

 

[Nithavela]

My only issue is why steel box, when they can use cheap wood or big paper boxes and bury it 3 to 6 feet deep.

Reusability.

 

[Nithavela]

Ecclesiastes 3:20

 

[Desk trauma]

Sounds like a horrible way to process human bodies and who is going to do this job?

Someone who isn’t bothered by it or finds the compensation is enough to make them willing to do it, the same with any other dirty or dangerous task.

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

Soylent Green!

 

[Maria Billingsley]

Human composting burial legalized in California

A note from the article:
Still, not everyone is pleased that human composting is becoming more popular. The California Catholic Conference submitted a letter in June opposing AB 351, saying it “reduces the human body to simply a disposable commodity.”

Similar to the ancient Jewish burial practice. The second step to a burial consisted of collecting the remains in the tomb and putting them into a ossuary. I guess the difference is where the remains end up ?

 

[durangodawood]

Im not sure a person should have any say about anything that happens after they die. They arent there. Their opportunity to exert their will is over.

Any condition attached to a will or endowment etc is a contrivance where people who exist are controlled by the intentions of people who dont exist.

 

[pgp_protector]

When I die I'm done with this body, I don't need it preserved for hundreds of years.
Cremation is fine, or maybe I'll go with one of those tree burials. (Sky burial would also be cool)

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

Im not sure a person should have any say about anything that happens after they die. They arent there. Their opportunity to exert their will is over.

Any condition attached to a will or endowment etc is a contrivance where people who exist are controlled by the intentions of people who dont exist.

I think that once a will has been executed, what the heir(s) do with it is up to them. In the past, it is the oldest son/daughter.

 

[CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN]

When I die I'm done with this body, I don't need it preserved for hundreds of years.
Cremation is fine, or maybe I'll go with one of those tree burials. (Sky burial would also be cool)

I like the tree idea, or maybe they could do these outdoor plants. Biodegradable burial pod turns your body into a tree | CNN

 

[Desk trauma]

I like the tree idea, or maybe they could do these outdoor plants. Biodegradable burial pod turns your body into a tree | CNN

Things such as this are an unneeded addition to a "green burial" and to me smack of the funeral industry looking to add expenses to natural burial they can cash in on. Human remains that have not been embalmed, burred under a tree will decay returning nutrients to the soil, helping that tree grow all on their own with the only human intervention required being digging the hole and planting the tree. $100 at a big box hardware store will get you a two shovels and a tree.

 

[CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN]

$100 at a big box hardware store will get you a two shovels and a tree.

The law doesn't allow that.