Anyone use woodchip to dispose of dead bodies?

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Human compost funerals 'better for environment'

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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A US firm claims the service it offers saves more than a tonne of carbon, after a pilot study.

 

"The process involves laying the body in a closed vessel with woodchips, alfalfa and straw grass. The body is slowly rotated to allow microbes to break it down.

Thirty days later the remains are available to relatives to scatter on plants or a tree."

 

 

This is giving me ideas...... 

[Haironyourchest]

If you run 'em through the chipper with the brash it's quicker. Pod to sod in a week.

 

I'll get my coat.

[Steven P]

Same idea as a composting bin - wel known you can put in anything in there (including say, chicken remains, the bone from a sunday joint and so on), and ver time compost comes out. Gess they just got the mix right to make it quicker. Cannot do it in a normal compost bin because.. the rats get in and it won't get hot enough insde to kill any bugs.

 

not that I woudl recomend this, but my litle 5wk stove will get rid of most animal bones over night (for the days when Ihaven't put the bins out for 6 weeks and it is full, a lot of waste gets burnt).. guess you could just use a bigger stove, uncle Bob goes in and heats the house as he goes? Saves a lot of carbon emissions too that wy if you're using the fire anyway

[David Cropper]

Christ Alive! Some of the nutters on here will be trying this out. I suspect a few mothers in law may suddenly go missing.

[Khriss]

Chest freezer first or it won't chip properly, then run 4m cubed wet conifer thru it fr DNA cleanse. K

Edited February 17, 2020 by Khriss
Obvs that's only what I have heard in conversation , yr 'onour. ..

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

2 hours ago, David Cropper said:

Christ Alive! Some of the nutters on here will be trying this out. I suspect a few mothers in law may suddenly go missing.

I "was" going to say......

 

Don't judge others by your own standards Mr C.....

 

But, it appears yome may be right ???