From "A Visit to Planet Koren/A new exhibition celebrates the work of the late cartoonist Edward Koren" (The New Yorker).
This is the best disposal of a human body I have ever seen.
November 19, 2024
"If some nonprofit needed a T-shirt design, Ed would always draw it. So we wrapped him up..."
"... in a quilt that a friend made of old T-shirts with Ed's drawings on them and gave him a green burial."
From "A Visit to Planet Koren/A new exhibition celebrates the work of the late cartoonist Edward Koren" (The New Yorker).
From "A Visit to Planet Koren/A new exhibition celebrates the work of the late cartoonist Edward Koren" (The New Yorker).
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…yah, provided the guy wasn’t full of zoloft or something. You don't want that stuff leeching into the water table…
Provided the batting of the quilt wasn't polyester.
Green burial seems to be legal all over the place: https://returnhome.com/what-states-allow-green-burial-or-natural-burial/
Cremation is the only way I'll ever have a smoking hot body again.
Hunter S. Thompson was cremated and his ashed fired from a howitzer, spreading him across his beloved home in Colorado. So I'd give this ceremony a 2nd best at most.
Gentle Humorist Laid Gently to Rest
Ann, you might be interested in Bernd Heinrich's Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death. Heinrich was a well-grounded not touchy-feely naturalist and a fine writer. His last chapter is about the animal biologists call Homo sapiens, and touches on green burial.
…leaching…
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