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Bury your deads in the backyard - Compost   (Apr 23, 2008)

Or one more way to save the environment by eco-burial your loved ones and let them turn into compost in your backyard eco-burial

Bring your dead family members home and compost them in your backyard, this writer suggest in his blog. Some strange things are happening in the waste and recycling business these days but some points make environmentally much sense. Sweden is considering allowing you to "bury" your loved ones by first freezing them and then turning them into compost.
 
The dead body is first dunked into liquid nitrogen (this is exceptionally cold at -196 degrees Celsius).The remains are then dehydrated; metals and other non-biological body parts are extracted (things like heart pacemakers, replacement hips, etc).

You end up with 75 kilograms of pink powder. Pour this into your "coffin" a small biodegradable box that can be planted.

The idea is that this freezing method is more ecologically friendly than burial or cremation. Traditional wooden caskets take lots of energy and resources to build and then end up six feet under.

Cremation also has a carbon footprint - practically all the carbon in the body and the coffin become carbon dioxide once they are burnt.  I am all for reducing a carbon footprint but I do have my reservations.

Not surprisingly the Swedish government has yet to give the go ahead for this process.

The writer of this blog suggests that he expects this method of disposal to turn up in a crime novel any day now!