On Apr 23, 2007, at 12:11 PM, Vince Teachout wrote:
> I'm not sure that it would bother me. I KNOW it wouldn't bother me to
> think of MY body being cut up. In fact, if I had my druthers, (and I
> can't, since it's illegal), I'd rather have my body ran through a wood
> chipper and spread over the forest floor, so as to provide compost and
> return SOMETHING back to the earth. Seriously.
Have you ever heard about Tibetan rituals for the dead? They don't
have very much open land, so burial is out of the question. There
isn't much wood, either, so cremation isn't an option.
What they do is have one of their priests trained in the skill of
carefully stripping all the flesh from the skeleton, and then
grinding the bones to a powder. The combination of flesh/bone powder
is then left on top of a particular hill for the vultures to consume,
thus returning the body back to the earth.
-- Ed Leafe
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