Remains
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Original writing date lost - from pre 2008
I don't believe in burial. Not because of some post-mortem form of claustrophobia, but simply because I believe it to be a colossal waste of land. There are far better things to do with dirt than bury dead bodies in it. I like the idea of organic burial, of sticking the corpse into the ground in a canvas sack and letting it rot under a tree back into the dust from whence it came. I would prefer to be left to rot openly in a body farm, to provide some use, to have nothing remaining but a memory of me.