Writer's Block: Left Behind
Jan. 31st, 2009 06:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I used to say that I would like to be fed to a tiger. But a human body chock full of all the pollutants and chemicals found in a western lifestyle probably isn't much good for a tiger. And for some reason it's illegal.
So realisticly, I'd prefer my body to decompose naturally. Sitting on top of the ground, being eaten by whatever critter feeds on carrion and having my constituent molecules returned to the soil for them to be reused.
Realisticly, realisticly, I'll have to settle for a green burial, which usually entails being buried in a bio-degradable box in a plot of forest set aside for the purpose. It's better than having my blood replaced with a highly toxic fluid which retards biodegradation and then being put into an exhorbitantly expensive, non-biodegradable box in the earth to take up space and not give anything back though.
I used to say that I would like to be fed to a tiger. But a human body chock full of all the pollutants and chemicals found in a western lifestyle probably isn't much good for a tiger. And for some reason it's illegal.
So realisticly, I'd prefer my body to decompose naturally. Sitting on top of the ground, being eaten by whatever critter feeds on carrion and having my constituent molecules returned to the soil for them to be reused.
Realisticly, realisticly, I'll have to settle for a green burial, which usually entails being buried in a bio-degradable box in a plot of forest set aside for the purpose. It's better than having my blood replaced with a highly toxic fluid which retards biodegradation and then being put into an exhorbitantly expensive, non-biodegradable box in the earth to take up space and not give anything back though.
