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Butterfly Effect Essay
Narrative: Story of a Corpse
Person’s death, leaning towards natural causes in old age
Minutes after death, oxygen-costly organs start to liquidize
Hours later the microbes from your stomach eat your liver
After a couple days body bloats with gas created by microbes
Months in, tissues collapse and released iron causes body to turn brown/black
After a decade, fat in the body turns to “grave wax”
50 years in you’re basically a skeleton, after 100 years bones turn to dust
End result is just teeth and grave wax
Western Burials
What are the logistics of a traditional burial?
What types of chemicals are used to treat a body?
How is a coffin made?
How much land is taken up for cemeteries?
How many people are buried yearly?
If current land use continues, how long until we run out?
Cremation
Why do some cultures cremate instead of bury?
Why is it becoming more popular in US?
Logistics of the cremation process
Various effects on environment
Are there cultures against cremation?
Cannibalism
Who has practiced it in the past?
A couple small secluded tribes still practice it
Why is it such a taboo?
Our care for something makes it “gross” to eat. Like cats and dogs
Is there an aspect of consent for what is done to our bodies? Even after we die?
Eco-Friendly Options
What kind of sarcophagus or coffin material would be eco-friendly?
Would stone run out? Could we make glass?
Compostable coffin and clothing?
What effect does climate have on type of funerary practice?
Ancient Practices to Consider
Mycenaean grave circles in Greece
Familial Burial Shafts, used for multiple burials
Egyptian mummies were most famous, but South America also has lots
What is the logistical cost of mummification?
Why isn’t mummification practiced today?
Humans and Death
Earliest evidence of burials in Iraq and Israel
Shanidar Cave Neanderthal burials
Why burial? How did that start?
Are there beliefs in an afterlife without a body?
Do other animals treat their dead in a special way?
How do we cope when we can’t bury the dead?