Alas, poor Yorick…
How does “the Urban Death Project” grab you? Your child dies, but not to fret–we can turn him into compost!
Humanists detest humanity. Alive, they want us eating bugs and fornicating, but also sterile; dead, they want to use us as fertilizer.
“All they that hate me love death.” Proverbs 8:36 says it best. In hating God’s creation, they hate the Creator, too.
Judgment awaits them.
(Thanks to Phoebe for the news tip.)
Today, fertilizer… tomorrow… lunch?
For untold thousands of years, people have been trying to decide what to do with dead bodies. Eight thousand years ago at Catal Huyuk, they kept the dear departed under the clay floors of their homes. Today we’ve got embalming and burial, or cremation–
And the Urban Death Project. Does that name give you the creeps? It gives me the creeps. Anyway, they’re experimenting with the feasibility of turning human bodies into compost (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/science/a-project-to-turn-corpses-into-compost.html). Saving the planet, don’t you know.
Decent people in all times and places show respect for the dead. They may have many different ways of doing it, some of them radically and unnervingly different, but the motivation is the same. I’m just not sure of the motivation of this bunch of Urban Death Project characters out in Seattle.
Flash! Just In!
Inspired by the work of the Urban Death Project, and virtually overnight, Fimbo University has created a Compost Studies degree program. After a mere eight years in the program, graduates will be fully qualified to serve as compost. “They’ll be able to fertilize anything!” exclaims the first chair of the new Department of Death Studies (who really is a chair, by the way: an actual piece of furniture). “At one fell swoop, the whole looming problem of perpetual unemployment is wiped from the board!”
Higher education marches on!