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Washington could become the first state to legalize human composting
... Sen. Jamie Pedersen, a Democrat, who is sponsoring a bill in Washington’s Legislature to expand the options for disposing of human remains. The recomposition bill would also make Washington the 17th state to allow alkaline hydrolysis, the dissolving of bodies in a pressurized vessel with water and lye until just liquid and bone remains. Pedersen plans to introduce the bill when the new legislative session begins next month.

Is it me, or is that kinda like how murderers dispose of bodies on TV? That's not the composting, here called "recomposition", though:
The process involves placing unembalmed human remains wrapped in a shroud in a 5-foot-by-10-foot cylindrical vessel with a bed of organic material such as wood chips, alfalfa and straw. Air is then periodically pulled into the vessel, providing oxygen to accelerate microbial activity. Within approximately one month, the remains are reduced to a cubic yard of compost that can be used to grow new plants.

There's a picture in the article which looks pretty much exactly like a larger version of our backyard rotating-drum composter.

It seems to me that after a month you would still have bones and the article doesn't address what is done with those. But hey, I'm all in for turning my body into compost when I'm done with it.
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24500Gold lamella with a Greek inscription, between 1st and 3rd centuries A.D.
[...]
500 Lamellae, small pieces of metal on which an inscription appears, range in date from the second century BC through the Roman Period and are found in tombs from Palestine. They were buried with the deceased, placed on the forehead.
500 The inscription is on one side of the lamella only.
500 Text of inscription: θάρσει, Ἡρακλιανέ, οὐδὶς ἀθάνατος.
500 Text of inscription: tharsei, Hērakliane, oudis athanatos.
500 Translation of inscription: Cheer up, Heraklianus, nobody's immortal.


LOL.
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Gary Owens and now Leonard Nimoy? ARGH.

and no no no the Very Rev. Sandy McDonald is not allowed to be terminally ill too

WTF STOP IT 2015 I SWEAR I CAN GET YOU FIRED
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Late to the news on this one because I only just heard about it through the latest newsletter for Two Guys SpaceVenture - RIP Gary Owens! Besides the narration in various Space Quest games, I have fond memories of him on Laugh-In and of course that one episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast. ("Uh, in the early days, back when, uh, when Space Ghost was first born, they let me play Space Ghost. And that was, what, what a thrill." "Uh, who's 'they'?" "Mr. Joe Barbera, and Mr. Fred Silverman, gentlemen who chose me to play you." "Nobody plays me, Jack! I play me.")

(Besides this sucking on its own, it will likely mean even more delay in the production of SpaceVenture, because he had not yet done the voice recording for the game and now they're going to have to find someone else. Botheration.)
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RIP, Steve Jobs.

I went to the same high school as the Steves, Jobs and Woz. Not at the same time, obviously, but their names were (presumably, still are) painted on the Hall of Fame in the gym, and it's one of those odd points of identity I carry around in my head, even though I have never been very big on Apples (except maybe in junior high school when that's what the computer club had and thus what I played tons of The Oregon Trail on). So just... wow. And Steve Jobs was 15 years younger than my elder parent, who fortunately has none of the organ problems he had, but still. Sobering.

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