What happens after you die? Well, one thing could be your body goes in a metal tube, the tube is filled with water and lye, and then heated until you melt away. The results may be used as fertilizer and it has the lowest environmental impact of any other body disposal (except "sky burial" I guess). Of course, this makes it illegal in most of the US.
There is so much in this article that makes me want to go on a grand tour of punching people. Republicans and the Catholic Church (two truly unassailable groups of people of honor and integrity and giving a shit about human beings) are preventing aquamation from being a legal method of "death care" in the states, using time-tested and incredibly stupid "I don't like the idea so therefore nobody should ever be allowed to do it" arguments.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 16 June 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link