An English town council has proposed capturing the wasted heat that comes off the town’s cremator, and using it to heat a nearby public swimming pool. Voices have been raised in protest; they say it’s disrespectful to the dead and the bereaved. Why is it? How does it affect the dead and the bereaved? It’s only the heat they’re proposing to use, for heaven’s sake. It isn’t as though they’re planning to throw the corpses into some giant compost maker, is it?
If I knew that my body was going to be disposed of in that cremator, I’d be more than happy to know that the process was going to have some beneficial side effect. In fact, I don’t think I’d have any personal objection to my body being thrown into a giant compost maker. The old shell is only going to get burned or rot away in the soil anyway, so why not put it to good use? I could understand my relatives objecting, though.
My favoured method is the North American Indian one. Put me on a raised platform somewhere in a quiet place and let the birds and animals have a good feed. I’d be happy with that.
8 comments:
Oy. People get way overprotective about some things.
And I'm glad you're not picky about where you end up after you die. The opposite is one thing that really annoys me, just because it doesn't make any sense. I mean, as long as people love you and pay their respects at the funeral, who cares if you're dirt or asphalt?
You still haven't told me what oy means.
I do intend to be at my own funeral, though, just to make sure they play the right music.
I only know about Tibetans' 'sky burial'. Didn't know that American Indian do the same.
I wish that I won't burden anyone when I am dead.
Dead bodies always burden somebody, Mei-shan, one way or another. I wouldn't worry about it if I were you. It'll give somebody a job to do. This is where I think Tao.
The Zoroastrians do sky burial too, do love the burning Viking ship way to reach the otherworld though.
Resourceful or disrespectful? I agree better to be a useful corpse though the cynic in me sees an opportunistic town trying to cut their fuel bill ;)
It's almost a Monty Python sketch!
'Sign 'ere, mate.'
'What's this?'
'It's a form that lets us use any gas you might emit in the process.'
:)
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