Urban Death Project… A Plan to Use Corpses as Compost!… How Far Away is Soylent Green?

soylent-green

Soylent Green
is a 1973 science fiction film starring the late Charlton Heston. The
film depicts a dystopian 21st-century Earth of pollution,
overpopulation, depleted resources, poverty, dying oceans, and
constant humidity due to the greenhouse effect from global warming. ~ Dr. Eowyn

In 2022,
with 40 million people in New York City alone, housing is dilapidated
and overcrowded; homeless people fill the streets; about half are
unemployed, the few “lucky” ones with jobs are only barely scraping by,
and food is scarce.

Most of the population survives on rations produced
by the Soylent Corporation, whose newest product is Soylent Green, a
green wafer advertised to contain nutritious “high-energy plankton” from
the oceans.

It turns out Soylent Green is made not from plankton, but from human remains.

42 years after Soylent Green the movie, a Seattle architect named Katrina Spade has a proposal, the Urban Death Project, to turn human corpses into compost for plant food.

Simply put, families of the deceased surrender the corpses to the project to rot in a 3-story recycle building.

Urban Death Project

As described on Urban Death Project’s website:

The Urban Death Project is a compost-based renewal system.
At the heart of the project is a three-story core, within which bodies
and high-carbon materials are placed.

Over the span of a few months,
with the help of aerobic decomposition and microbial activity, the
bodies decompose fully, leaving a rich compost.

The Urban Death Project is not simply a system for turning our bodies
into soil-building material. It is also a space for the contemplation of
our place in the natural world, and a ritual to help us say goodbye to
our loved ones by connecting us with the cycles of nature.

This is how Urban Death Project envisions the process to be:

1. The deceased may be stored in a refrigerated space for
up to ten days before the ceremony takes place. There is no embalming
because decomposition is an important part of the design.

2. Those closest to the deceased meet the body in the shrouding room, where they wrap it in simple linen. Supportive staff are on hand to assist in this process.

3. Mourners enter the facility and walk up to the top of the core where they say goodbye to the deceased at the laying in.

“Laying in” refers to placing the corpse into a mixture of woodchips and sawdust.

Over the next few weeks, the body
decomposes and turns into a nutrient-rich compost, which is given to the
deceased’s family or spread in national parks.

The project’s founder Katrina Spade says
she got the idea from animal composting. She plans to launch a
Kickstarter campaign on March 30 to build a prototype system by 2020.

She admits the project will face legal problems and envisions “It’ll be
state-by-state, a lot of small campaigns. It’s about telling people
this is an option that works.”

Here’s an article for Catholics on the proper treatment of the cremated ashes of loved ones: “Concerns about Cremation: Some Very Strange Practices are Emerging“.

 

Reposted may 20, 2015 – KnowTheLies.com

 

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