Environmentalism run amok?

[Rackat]

As an alternative to burial, cremation is no longer green enough, say environmentalists, because it releases smoke and mercury, and thus the industry is considering "promession," in which the body is frozen in liquid nitrogen to minus-320 degrees (F) and then shaken until it disintegrates into powder. For green burials, the United States has at least six cemeteries that require biodegradable casings and for bodies to be free of embalming chemicals. The Forever Fernwood cemetery in Mill Valley, Calif., goes even further, according to an October Los Angeles Times story, banning grave markers, but, said the owner, "We issue the family a Google map with the GPS coordinates" so they can find their loved one. [Los Angeles Times, 10-28-07; Evening Standard (London), 10-10-07]

http://www.msnbc.com/comics/nw.asp?vts=112720070448


I am for reducing polution and keeping our planet clean, but is there a happy medium we can reach between the wackos and the rest of us? Or at least a limit that the wackos are not alowed to go beyond?

[StanleySpadowski]

I wonder if these nutjobs even consider things like the environmental damage done when making liquid nitrogen. I'd wager that more energy is used and pollution done...

[jterrell]

Don't eat the soylent green.

Wackos are sadly not going away and they do not see that they are contributing to global warming by spreading retarded dogma that only draws bemused laughter.

As to the middle ground.

Absolutely. For each person what is acceptable may be different and ultimately there will be government induced limits but I am fairly certain freeze dried corpses won't be on the menu.

[vta]

For each person what is acceptable may be different and ultimately there will be government induced limits but I am fairly certain freeze dried corpses won't be on the menu.

:laugh2:

[BrAinPaiNt]

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
Theodore Roosevelt

[AbeBeta]

Let's not toss out the baby because the bathwater is a bit nutso -- stuff like embalming is pretty toxic and strikes me as crazy. Just freaking bury the person in a plain pine box a few days after the death -- that's how the Jews roll and that's a good model. All this crap with "viewing" the body a week or so after the death is just plain sick to me. Do we really need those chemicals seeping into our groundwater?

[Rackat]

Don't eat the soylent green.
...
As to the middle ground.

Absolutely. For each person what is acceptable may be different and ultimately there will be government induced limits but I am fairly certain freeze dried corpses won't be on the menu.
"Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!" That was one wacked out movie. :laugh2:

I often wonder if these "extreme" green fanatics understand that some of the crap they come up with is just as bad as some of the stuff we're already doing...and twice as weird! :confused:

[PosterChild]

Mass hysteria

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_hysteria#searchInput)
Mass hysteria, also called collective hysteria, mass psychogenic illness, or collective obsessional behavior, is the sociopsychological (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_psychology) phenomenon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenon) of the manifestation of the same or similar hysterical (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteria) symptoms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symptom) by more than one person. A common manifestation of mass hysteria occurs when people believe they are suffering from a similar disease (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease) or ailment, [or delusion].

[burmafrd]

Can I have that one with ketchup, please?