Well I am definitely not doing anything useful while alive, might as well help as much as I can while I am dead.
I would not mind personally, but that kind of decision would absolutely depend on how my next of kin would feel also.
I doubt my mother would be ok with it, since her side of the family has burial traditions involved that have been going on long enough that it's more meaningful than just making a choice.
Pretty sure my father would be keen though. The idea of him being able to 'garden' and such post-bucket-punt would probably be appealing to him. And I doubt he's keen on being the vineyard scarecrow in 30 years.
Well for starters I personally believe that acclimating this idea to our society is one of the last things my (American) leaders care about as they are too busy destroying their own country for votes. I wouldn't mind being composted, i'd love to be put in the garden and have some thorns come out me
Actually, I feel as though promoting this idea could benefit society in the long run. I think most people will be supportive of the idea of being composted after death (except for a few folks who will certainly be against the idea). I don't really see the problem with being composted aside from family traditions, unless I'm missing something that other people see as potential problems. I would love to see the opinion of somebody who does not support this, so I could get a clearer view on why this could be a bad idea.
I personally wouldn't mind being composted, but I also wouldn't mind being used for science. I feel like being valuable after death is a good idea. They're are such limited amount of people that actually donate there bodies for the advancement of the human race. However, the world has a tradition of cremating or burying after death and I feel like many people do not want to break that tradition even though other options are more valuable to us humans.
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This is a very hard question to answer for me.
I gave it not a second thought in my Frostpunk playthrough.
I enacted the Organic Fertiliser law which lets you use bodies you kept in a < -30°C 'stockpile' in your settlement as fertiliser for food production buildings as a cooldown ability.
But in real life it is not such a simple answer for me.
Great game, by the way.
Right now, I don't want to ever be dead.
If I do, ideally I'd want my body to be preserved until a future generation has the technology to revive me.
This is my wish, and it is an unrealistic one.
The logical part of me sees this as a no-brainer, same with donating your body to science after death.
I just don't think people are willing to treat their relatives' corpses like horse manure. Maybe I have the wrong image in mind.
My father always jokes that we should just throw his body in a ditch to save on funeral costs, my mother is sternly against it.
The places that the dead rest hold a lot of significance for some mourners.
My grandfather died in 2011 and my mother visits the place his ash was scattered every year.
I think there would also be some kickback on the resulting crops of the bodies, whether it be superstition or people not wanting to eat corpse potatoes.
The plan sounds good logically, but I think there are too many emotional objections for it to ever be implemented on a large scale.
Maybe I'm wrong and there are millions of volunteers with open-minded families.
Is this strictly necessary for the survival of our species, or just a cost-effective farming strategy?
I just don't think people are willing to treat their relatives' corpses like horse manure. Maybe I have the wrong image in mind.
I think there would also be some kickback on the resulting crops of the bodies, whether it be superstition or people not wanting to eat corpse potatoes.
The plan sounds good logically, but I think there are too many emotional objections for it to ever be implemented on a large scale.
Maybe I'm wrong and there are millions of volunteers with open-minded families.
Is this strictly necessary for the survival of our species, or just a cost-effective farming strategy?
In part this research comes from a place where I'm looking at societal reaction to technologies.This, in my mind, is the single most extreme thing I can think of in terms of existing social taboo vs. environmental benefit, which makes it an interesting path of study... Despite it not currently being a requirement or anything, at a certain point we're going to have to address it. Cemeteries get full, and you can't spare the land in cities. The sooner it's addressed the sooner you can implement the benefits. Or rather, the sooner you address the social taboos surrounding it, the sooner you can start making the changes necessary for the human race to continue living as we currently do.
Yeah, that's where the issues tend to lie - in the fact that it's one persons body isn't just a sensitive issue for that person, it's for the people close to them aswell.
Do you envisage any path of conversation that would convince your mum to allow you/your father's body to be eaten by shrooms or mulched? Do you feel there would be any way to convince her, if you were given specific numbers/facts with regards to the environment?