On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 06:34:02AM -0700, Charles Haynes wrote: > One standard procedure for burial is to wait until the body decomposes > then remove the bones to a crypt. Saves space, and cremation doesn't > reduce the bones much anyway so you have an equivalent disposal method > in both cases. > > Even better would be to efficiently re-use the remains, if nothing > else to feed animals. "Sky burial" as practiced by Parsis and some > Tibetan Buddhists seems like a fine solution to me.
Or you could just use cryonics. Dewars scale very well. If you do it pre-mortem, you actually save money by shaving off a couple terminal months in the ER, or so. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
