tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314170255512513562.post3699176788238914869..comments2024-01-13T01:13:27.059+00:00Comments on Changing the World (and other excuses for not getting a proper job...): Three Bodies Boiled for the Price of TwoDougald Hinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13454824557311085039noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314170255512513562.post-21857842610005116122022-08-03T12:16:56.114+00:002022-08-03T12:16:56.114+00:00Lovedd reading this thanksLovedd reading this thanksAmarillo Garage Door Repairshttps://www.garage-door-experts.com/us/garage-door-installation-texas/amarillo-garage-door-repairs.shtmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314170255512513562.post-86032643654773788272008-04-24T06:48:00.000+00:002008-04-24T06:48:00.000+00:00Like they do in Tibet--I think it's similar in zor...Like they do in Tibet--I think it's similar in zoroastrianismNick Hermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01543497413262895759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314170255512513562.post-84402103952151474752008-04-14T14:55:00.000+00:002008-04-14T14:55:00.000+00:00"There's always Sky Burial..."Do you mean as in th..."There's always Sky Burial..."<BR/><BR/>Do you mean as in the Zoroastrian exposure of the dead on a Tower of Silence? Or like Hunter S Thompson? (I suppose that doesn't really count, though, since he was cremated before they fired his remains out of a cannon...)Dougald Hinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13454824557311085039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314170255512513562.post-62989586051709347632008-04-14T05:38:00.000+00:002008-04-14T05:38:00.000+00:00There's always Sky Burial..There's always Sky Burial..Nick Hermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01543497413262895759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314170255512513562.post-7756542969840968922008-04-08T10:39:00.000+00:002008-04-08T10:39:00.000+00:00I completely agree, Steve. I've thought for a long...I completely agree, Steve. I've thought for a long time that the ossuary is a wiser approach.<BR/><BR/>Besides the CO2 emissions and the energy consumption, I have a deeper unease with the form of cremation practised in Western societies. It represents the industrialisation of death - the body reduced to a problematic waste product in need of processing. Only a society which was already losing its sense of the sacred could have adopted such a custom.<BR/><BR/>The other side of this is that industrial society is peculiarly unable to face death - to see it as part of life, rather than as a failure. (This has contributed to the corruption of our medical tradition.) Cremation suits our desire for death to be hidden from sight. Surely a society which practised exhumation and ossuary interment would be at home with death in a way that we are not?<BR/><BR/>Do you think there is a connection between Greek practice and the general attitude to death in the Eastern church?Dougald Hinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13454824557311085039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314170255512513562.post-11586090925031168662008-04-08T02:20:00.000+00:002008-04-08T02:20:00.000+00:00Cremation uses a lot of energy and causes a lot of...Cremation uses a lot of energy and causes a lot of CO2 emissions. I don't know what boiling would do -- could one call that "extraordinary rendition"?<BR/><BR/>Why not follow Greek practice?<BR/><BR/>Bury the bodies, and when they have decomposed dig up the bones, put them in an ossuary, and reuse the grave?Steve Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11283123400540587033noreply@blogger.com