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I’ve been a big fan of yours for quite a while. I hope that you’re doing well and keeps yourself safe.

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This is a new take on ashes to ashes and dust to dust. Why isn’t it not desecration of a human body?!

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Human composting sounds gross, but ashes buried at sea in a solemn ceremony is very fitting for a sailor, if that is what they want. I agree that an urn on a mantle is also gross and morbid. Stay strong

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I agree that it's distasteful, as is cremation. (I think John McArthur had a good teaching on that.) I'm not convinced that it's a hill I'm willing to die on though. (Pun intended!) I understand that in early Europe communities, (largely Christian), the deceased were buried in wooden coffins in small churchyards. The coffins and bodies would "return to dust" naturally, and later generations would be buried on top. This isn't terribly different, although I'm aware that it's rooted in the modern religion of environmentalism....

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