Breathing life into this thread again, YAY!
On the often-overlooked morbidity of embalming:
Why do we embalm?
To protect us from changing,
to prevent decay.
We are animals,
meant to die and to decay
like everything else.
Morbid western world,
selfishly we are hoarding
our precious min'rals.
We take and we take
from the soil that gave us life,
even in our death.
Besides, think of it:
pumped with toxins? wooden box?
A hole in the ground?
The worst kind of way
to spend an eternity;
nothing but stagnance.
Think eternity:
to become intangible;
true coalescence.
[can you do that from a tomb?]
When my time does come
I want to become the soil.
Life fertilizer.
[the kind that only comes from death.]
Plant a tree on me.
So that I will have given
back in some small way.
[as a human its the least I can do...]
:poof:
