Burn
Up Your Dead!
Believe it or not
this cartoon isn't just about fracking.
It's also about the way we bury our dead,
and the problems therein.
Y'see, we Americans like to suck the blood
out of our dead and replace it with embalming
fluid. This is a pretty good idea if you
want to keep a body from rotting
but embalming fluid is a mixture of formaldehyde,
a known carcinogen, and methanol, which
is a neurotoxin. This is pretty bad stuff
and each year we put 5
million gallons
into
the
ground.We take steps to keep it out of
the drinking water but, as they say in
Jurassic Park "Nature finds a way".
In essence, we're basically embalming
the Earth.
As if that wasn't bad enough, burials also
require a lot of metal, wood, and concrete.
They
say there's enough wood in a ten-acre cemetery
(actually, a future superfund site) to
build 40 homes.
We're not pharaohs, we're not kings, there's
nothing special about our empty husks once
we're done with them. We're several billion
bodies
past the point where we
think we might be needed again someday.
I know the idea of an unmarked passage
of a life distresses some people but look
at it this
way: when you're buried in a hole, you're
there permanently,
but
when
you're
cremated,
or
disposed of in another ecologically-friendly
manner,
your spirit is everywhere.
I'm going with that one.
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Hey! I have a new cartoon over on friendlyatheist.com.
This one's about Noah
and his multidimensional love boat.
Here's the first panel but you can see
the whole shootin'-match by clicking
the red link above or the image below.
=Lefty=
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