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[strangebiology]

I have a question:

I know embalming isn’t legally required but then I’m confused at the function of “natural burial sites where embalming isn’t required.”

Would that not be all cemeteries?

Otherwise the conversation would be like

Loved one: “Hey I don’t want to embalm Grandma.”

Funeral home: “That’s ok, you’re not legally required to. And where would you like her buried?”

Loved one: “Here’s a list of 100 cemeteries nearest to us, any will do”

Funeral home: “Actually all of these require embalming, so haha jk actually do you have to embalm.”

Help me understand what I’m missing?? Are embalming-free burials technically legal but functionally impossible for those without access to green burial cemeteries? How does a not-embalmed body need a special site more than an embalmed body does?

fun funeral facts

embalming, the process of chemically preserving a corpse, is typically not required by law. unless you need to transport the body long-distance or postpone the burial, it’s 100% a vanity thing.

a body still rots in air-tight conditions. so “protective” or ���sealed” caskets are basically a scam, and anything fancy like metal is a waste of money.

want a beautiful casket for a viewing, but think burning or burying an expensive piece of hardwood is a waste of money and trees? rentals exist.

you don’t need a coffin for cremation. the minimum requirement is that the body be in a “cremation container,” which is a simple cardboard box.

home funerals are an option. you don’t need to hand the body over to a funeral home, and you can keep their involvement to a minimum.

natural burial sites exist. you can have your unembalmed body straight up thrown in the dirt to be tree food, if you want.

there are a lot of funeral homes that will prey on your ignorance and vulnerability in order to get as much money out of you as possible. they may imply optional certain services are legally mandatory, steer you away from cheaper options, charge additional costs for what’s supposed to be all-inclusive services, etc.

one person’s death is another person’s profit. know your rights, do your research, and apply the same scrutiny you would to any other business.

[unhelpfultarot]

Judgement and Death reversed

Today is the day to come back Wrong.

[weirdlookindog]

Andreas Gering (1892–1957) - The Flying Death / The Storm Song, 1916

ink, brown pen, watercolor, and white heightening on paper

[clandestine-sadboy]

i can’t bare the idea of losing you. i need it to stop.

[randomly-generated-posts-machine]

No! death will kill the patient! She needs yaoi to live

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

David Jolicoeur better known as Trugoy of De La Soul died February 12, 2023 R.I.P.

[morbidology]

Miyu Kojima works for a company that cleans up after kodokushi: a Japanese phenomenon of people dying alone and remaining uncovered for a period of time. “Lonely death” is an increasingly common phenomenon in a county with an ageing population. Once the bodies are removed, Miyu and her colleagues enter the homes to scrub them down and sort through their belongings. To preserve and document the scene, Miyu creates miniature replicas and the outcome depicts a lonely and bleak existence.

[wehavemadchemistry]

When I'm dead, I want my tombstone to say something along these lines. Or, perhaps, have a curse inscribed on it. Something for the future archaeologists/grave robbers to chew on

Bad epithets to use in your fanfic: the blonde, the brunette, the redhead

Good epithets to use in your fanfic: The Crawling Chaos, He Who Waits Behind the Wall, The End of All Wisdom

[whump-galaxy]

I just love a villain that’s not The Big Bad, but when it comes down to it, they’re ten times more manipulative.

Sure, they won’t physically torture the whumpee for information. They won’t maim and murder without reason.

But they will get answers one way or another. They will crush the whumpee’s whole self without physically harming even a single hair on the whumpee’s head.

[animenostalgia]

Some sad news to share - Composer Michio Mamiya, who may be best known for his collaborations with Studio Ghibli director Isao Takaha, passed away at the age of 95 in December of 2024. An award-winning, classically trained musical composer, Mamiya composed the scores for such anime classics as Horus: Prince of The Sun, Gauche The Cellist, and Grave of The Fireflies.

Rest in peace, Mamiya-san. Your music will live on in beautiful anime works for many generations to come.

[weirdlookindog]

Jan Frans De Boever (1872–1949) - La Mort

Mixed media on paper

[wittyno]

Ahh yes, the Burying Grandma in the Backyard Approach.

For this to make sense you need to know that the two big ways we dispose of our dead (cremation and embalming then burial) is Superbad for the environment. You also need to know that there are a bunch of laws and rules around how, when, and who can dispose of the dead.

There are people seeking to change these rules because people want to bury grandma in the backyard. You've got hippie lefties who care about the environment and deeply right people who don't like the red tape and maybe can't afford the astronomical price of funerals. Both of these perspectives are valid.

To get any sort of reform these groups, who agree on nothing else, have to work together.

If you want to learn more about this and death in general go check out AskAMortician.

They say that the way you should view disagreements in relationships is “us vs the problem” and not “me vs them” and I think that to a certain extent that mindset can also be helpful when engaging in political or ideological movements

[straight-to-the-pain]

I think it’s often implied in the stories we write but I actually don’t think we consider the emotional and psychological implications of a character signing up for something knowing that they will likely die doing it.

It might not be for certain, but there are so many situations where people know that their efforts may well end in death. And it may well be a painful death, a slow death, a public execution, tortured alone in a dark cell, shot in the back of the head in a dark basement.

And then they go and do whatever it is they were going to do anyway and they do it regardless of the consequences. Because that’s what their cause means to them. And they’ve already accepted their fate going in. They just hope their life and death will be worth something.

[undead-knick-knack]

Self-portrait with Evil Baby and Death (c. 850 PD) by Braius Doomseed

(the original painting is "Self-Portrait with Cupid and Death" (1875) by Hans Thomas)

[antikittysocial]

"I wonder what happens after we die"

what are you? what are *you*? your brain? your body? every cell and thing in it? what's consciousness? the ability to percieve? makes sense, the time where you're unconscious feels like the quickest thing ever. so then... if death is just when we lose our consciousness and our body stops functioning...

what if we become something else?

if someone's remains after they die becomes something like... nutrients a plant or critter repurposes into something to build itself, does that mean they could, at some point, gain a new consciousness? by being consumed by another thing, with a life, could we live a new life?

you're so many things

and if we can really do such a thing, that means it's happened. your ancestors are in my skin. they're in your bones. every single thing that makes us up is a remnant of the past. I could be in someone's skin someday. I could be in a bird's wings. a worm's stomach. a cat's claw. or I could be inside a plant, or in the air. everyone is everything, and everything is everyone, we just don't know them yet

anyway ahem that's my theory