Try looking up 'towers of silence'. A certain caste of people in India
used (?) to leave their human remains for the scavengers on tall
towers. For me, a woodland burial in a biodegradable casket would be
fine.
Chris
On 1 Apr 2004 , at 1:09, James N. McBride wrote:
>
> In the end our true value is that of fertilizer. I really dislike the
> American practice of putting bodies in concrete vaults. I know it
> keeps the
> cemetery lawns level but then we can't even be useful as fertilizer.
> Cemeteries are a waste of real estate too. Sometimes the so-called
> primitive
> societies have things figured out much better than the more
> sophisticated
> folks. /jmac
>
>
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