Green | June 06, 2008 | 5 comments

Composting the dead - Swedish burial company service

source: http://www.promessa.se/index_en.asp

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"Promessa Organic AB is developing and offering a new method of laying the dead to rest. An environmentally friendly form of burial that takes full consideration of the biological realities to which a corpse is subjected.

"Our ecological burial reduces environmental impact on some of our most important resources; our water, air and soil," says Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak, biologist and head of Promessa Organic AB."

I for one feel that turning the dead into something useful and beautiful like a cherry tree or a flower bush is far more morally superior to simply throwing them into a fire or into the ground. Giving our dead back to the environment is leagues more respectful than letting them rot or sit on our mantelpiece as a decoration.
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5 comments // Composting the dead - Swedish burial company service

  • oxolIlcLOcLOxox
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      oxolIlcLOcLOxox  

    • I've always wanted to be buried in this tiny town in Virginia, where I spent half of my life with my dad. Buried in the woods, near our mountain house. (that I hope to soon purchase and turn into an organic farm)
      This has made me realize how realistic this could all be.
      I think bringing back traditional ways of burial that are eco-friendly are a great idea.

    • 3 years ago
  • johnmcstupid
  • PoisonTheMonkey
  • PoisonTheMonkey
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      PoisonTheMonkey  

    • No kidding. This is just what happens in nature, and frankly I'd much rather sit under the shade of a tree grown from a loved one and take care of it (which would provide alot of closure), than look at a cold slab of stone.

    • 3 years ago
  • pogschampion
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      pogschampion  

    • I would want to live on as a tree after my time here on Earth. But then I'd be a tree, so I'm still kinda here. Maybe that'll be my afterlife. Really cool idea.

    • 3 years ago
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