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Originally Posted by joey m  governments have committed the most horrendous crimes against morality. So, aren't we each responsible for determining a code of ethics within societal laws that we deem to be good and just? And if so, shouldn't we be able to articulate it?
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For citizens of most nations, the greatest threat to one's life aside from accidents and aging is their own government. I choose not to eat humans because I value them more highly as social companions, other food is available, and I would have empathy for the pain others who loved them would feel if they were killed.
Had they died of natural causes though, there are (or at least were in the past few decades) tribes in the Amazon who ate the ashes of their loved ones as a sort of communion. To me that's romantic, though I don't know if I'd go for it. Likewise in the US one can have a loved one's ashes turned into a diamond.
I think it's a waste of resources to preserve the form of bodies after death by adding chemicals and placing them in a coffin. At the very least it uses up a massive amount of real estate. I'd like to fertilize a garden if/when I permanently leave my body.