Re:Cemeteries are landfills, and can contain all sorts of po...
by zeroname on Sunday November 04, 2018 @08:57PM
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Disposing of human remains in a regular cemetery is safe as well, unless maybe you drill a well right next to it.
You know what excretes far more E. Coli than a dead body? A living body. That bacterium is basically everywhere where there are animals, infections are pretty common.
Plus, if you have any of those artificial things that the article mentions, that will still have to be disposed of otherwise, lest the bird eat it.
> Then the bones are crushed into a powder and mixed with something called tsampa for the crows and other birds to eat afterwards.
Sounds like yet another great way to catch an E. Coli infection: Grinding down bone contaminated with bird poop.
I really like the thought of the "sky burial"[1]. Basically, they bring your remains to the top of a mountain and wait for vultures to clean off the bones. Then the bones are crushed into a powder and mixed with something called tsampa for the crows and other birds to eat afterwards. It seems like a safe way to dispose of remains, is spiritually significant (to me), and is actually useful to the ecosystem. Unfortunately, it's very costly on time.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial