Comments | countrycousin: Writer's Block: R.I.P

countrycousin

Writer's Block: R.I.P

Oct 28, 2011 17:35

writer's block

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countrycousin October 29 2011, 01:16:56 UTC

Advice for autumn - that works. :-) #3, of course, is rather fanciful. :-)

harimad October 29 2011, 11:24:44 UTC

The things I want to go, are generally illegal.
- Med schools are generally only interested in a whole body.
- Composting humans is generally illegal in the US.
- Burying direct in the ground is illegal in many places in the US, including where I live and where my parents have bought a plot and built a, er, I guess the polite word is structure. One can do it for religious reasons but I would,then, have to verifiably become a member of one of those religions.

So it's become
1. Donate usable body parts (waste not, want not)
2. Cremate.

countrycousin October 29 2011, 22:08:33 UTC

Yes - that is very realistic. I was listing my druthers. :-/

harimad October 29 2011, 11:27:48 UTC

Lee Hays, shortly before he died, wrote this to fellow gardener, Toshi Seeger:

If I should die before I wake
All my bones and sinew take.
Put me the compost pile,
Decompose me for a while.
Worms, water, wind will have their way
returning me to common clay.
All that I am will feed the trees
and little fishes in the seas.
When radishes and corn you munch
You may be having me for lunch.
And then excrete me with a grin
chortling "There goes Lee again!"

Works for me. (But not for the law.)

countrycousin October 29 2011, 22:14:07 UTC

:-} That's great! We have composting toilets now - we ought to be able to put together reusable composting coffins. I suppose guaranteeing that propagation of all human-borne illnesses was interrupted would be a severe problem. I suspect the undertaking industry would mount an effective emotional campaign against such a thing. :-/