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On another note, did we have a new yak resolutions thread for 2022?
A quick search threw up old threads from 2020 (https://yaktribe.games/community/threads/happy-new-yak-resolutions-for-2020.9765/) and 2021 (https://yaktribe.games/community/threads/happy-new-yak-resolutions-for-2021.10952/), but I didn't see a 2022 thread. Perhaps none of us needed any further improvement...
Edit: No one has found a 2022 thread, so probably there wasn't one, but @MedMos has started one for 2023:
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A quick search threw up old threads from 2020 (https://yaktribe.games/community/threads/happy-new-yak-resolutions-for-2020.9765/) and 2021 (https://yaktribe.games/community/threads/happy-new-yak-resolutions-for-2021.10952/), but I didn't see a 2022 thread. Perhaps none of us needed any further improvement...
Edit: No one has found a 2022 thread, so probably there wasn't one, but @MedMos has started one for 2023:
New Year 2022/2023
Just like @Ben_S, I couldn't find any 2022 resolutions thread. But luckily we can catch up last year and make resolutions for the next in one fell swoop! I'll give it a crack. My hobby suffered terribly because of my new job. But on the other hand, it's the best job I have ever had, and my...
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New York approves composting of human bodies
It is the latest place to approve the process - considered to be greener than a burial or cremation.
www.bbc.co.uk
New York now allows composting of human bodies. (This isn't a first.) This means that a body could, in theory, be used on food crops.
Body --> Compost --> Food
It's only so long until someone realises that they can cut out the middle step here. Corpse starch here we come...
My friend died during a skydiving accident in New Zealand about a year and a half ago and was buried in a mushroom body bag to aid in composting. It was slightly weird to hear.
I'm sorry to learn of your friends passing. The composting makes as much sense to me as the traditional American burial process. I'd rather that money be spent elsewhere.
Time to dig out this post again!!
Post in thread 'What's on your mind?'
https://yaktribe.games/community/threads/whats-on-your-mind.3498/post-297632
Post in thread 'What's on your mind?'
https://yaktribe.games/community/threads/whats-on-your-mind.3498/post-297632
The only real risk I can see from composting humans would be the same risk as using human excrement to fertilise food crops.
Some diseases in the humans being composted might survive the human and transfer into the food crop.
Other than that I don’t see any particularly poor reasons that humans couldn’t be composted in much the same way as every other living thing is composted.
At the end of the day it’s not that much different to being buried in the ground and having grass grow over your grave. It’s just that the grass is then edible for humans.
Some diseases in the humans being composted might survive the human and transfer into the food crop.
Other than that I don’t see any particularly poor reasons that humans couldn’t be composted in much the same way as every other living thing is composted.
At the end of the day it’s not that much different to being buried in the ground and having grass grow over your grave. It’s just that the grass is then edible for humans.
Don't know much about the US process other than what I saw on TV, but I know that around here, being dead is EXPENSIVE.
Grave plots cost about as much as a small house, and crypts are unheard of unless you inherited one. If you rent a plot, cause you can't actually own one in most places, you pay a hefty tax and various charges for that, if you don't maintain the grave, there's a fine, if you don't do it right, there's a fine, if you don't pay the local gardener to do it, there's a "so you insist on doing it yourself" surcharge, etc. etc. And even with all that in place, after a set amount of years, your bones are dug up and placed in an ossuary, which is barely cheaper, until no more living relatives can be found, then they're tossed in a "communal plot" aka very orderly mass grave anyway, and all of that has easily cost up to a quarter of what the average pensioner gets PER MONTH. So you say "just get cremated then?" Ahaha, you rube, you fool, you are not allowed to keep human ashes at home, you have to rent a nook in an urn wall somewhere, barely cheaper than the coffin dog and pony show, and just dumping the ashes somewhere is technically not allowed, because that could cheat the funerary businesses out of money (Not that they can stop you, and I know several people who have urns of their dead relatives at home, even Austria doesn't have a dead people police).
So thanks no thanks, when I'm dead, set me on fire and illegally toss the ashes along some country road, not putting that financial burden on my nonexistent children. If somebody wants to compost me first, set up a marker or plant a tree on top, ace. If not, also ace, I'll be dead so I won't care either way.
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Same here, @SuboptimusPrime. Harvest what organs are still good, donate the rest to medicine or burn it.
Terrain Tutor has committed to that. They are apparently very desperate and offer loads of perks.
He’s getting composted?? I really hope that doesn’t lead to a posthumous basing range…
No he is donating his body to a medical school so students can cut him up for years to come.
Since we’re talking medical stuff, as a Yak of a certain age, I’d like to formally state that colonoscopies are not fun and the prep drink sucks.
Just got home from one…. I thought us aliens were supposed to DO the probing.
Just got home from one…. I thought us aliens were supposed to DO the probing.
Happy New Year to you! This will tell you too much about my dearly departed Mom’s sense of humor but I know she was looking forward to hearing about my experience going through one since she spoke quite humorously about her experiences with them.
sympathy for you punktaku , but i raise you for a laparoscopy , they go in from the front so you get to watch it all.all i could think of was a scene from 'das boat' where the captain span his periscope around looking for ships (also the hole is much smaller.....at the start)👀
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