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firecat (attention machine in need of calibration) ([personal profile] firecat) wrote2012-06-12 05:43 pm
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I find the most interesting stuff by following [twitter.com profile] ebertchicago

"Popularity of woollen coffins soars" in the UK.

Which made me wonder whether if I were dying I would like watching friends knit me a woollen coffin. Or what it would be like to knit my own.

(Although actually I want to be cremated, and it would be a shame to burn up good knitting with my body.)
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[identity profile] epi-lj.livejournal.com 2012-06-25 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I've always been on board with the cremation option, but with qualms, because it both creates greenhouse gasses and because I wasn't sure how much of a "natural cycle" thing it was to burn all the stuff I've taken in over time. A little while ago I read somewhere about a procedure where they basically freeze-dry you or something and then use powerful low-frequency sonic waves to reduce you to your consistent elements. I have to look this up again and get a better idea of how it works. That seemed like it might be better. One of the options was to then mix it in with soil and plant a tree in it, which seemed like it would give people a place to come if they wanted to visit.
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[personal profile] firecat 2012-06-25 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I'm not particularly attached to cremation; it's just that personally I don't like the idea of having a body-sized chunk of land set aside for the exclusive use of my body for several hundred years longer than I am alive. 10 or 25 years, no problem, if that's what the people left behind want. Or freeze-drying, or being made into jewelry, or whatever.
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