Points to Ponder
American dead people are not very environmentally friendly. Burials in the USA put 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid (formaldehyde, methanol, and ethanol), into our soil each year. Meanwhile, cremation pumps dioxins, hydrochloric acid, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide into the air.
Edward Wilson estimates 27,000 species are currently lost per year. By 2022, 22% of all species will be extinct if no action is taken. The IUCN created shock waves with its major assessment of the world's biodiversity in 2004, which calculated that the rate of extinction had reached 100-1,000 times that suggested by the fossil records before humans.
Little Known Fact About Death #13 ~
In the end, 'lack of oxygen' is always the final cause of death.
Little Known Fact About Death #15 ~
The same enzymes that digest your food while you're alive will start eating your body once you're dead.
“Blessed are those whom death will find inYour most holy will, for the second death shall do them no harm.”
~ St. Francis of Assisi
Explore these themes more deeply in
"The Great Chain of Being"
