Comments on: Man's Last Wish: Turn His Ashes Into Fish Food

By: S

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:45:30 +0000

gtron:

You're right about animals eating ground up other animals and getting brain rot as a result. By consuming the infected tissue of a dead animal they themselves became infected. But the big difference here is that he wasn't ground up raw like a dead cow. He was cremated and the only thing left is grit and ash, and at this point his remains are probably about as hazardous as a handful of wet sand. I think that's a great way to pass on, you won't take up any space and you make some fish super happy.

Comparing some old dude's eccentric and ultimately harmless last wish to a bunch of violently murdered women being eaten by pigs kind of makes you a butthead.

By: gtron

gtron — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:04:49 +0000

carl and ted: funny or not, mad cow was caused by feeding an animal a type of food it would not eat under any normal circumstance - feeding ground sheep bones and chicken feathers to a cow = bad... feeding ground human to a fish= hmmmm....
I used to work on a fish farm, and I don't trust what they feed them - you eat farmed salmon? very fatty and little taste resemblance to the real thing.
technically, it should be illegal for a farm that sells product to not feed the proper feed to that product (Oh, my dog loved this farm, so I'll grind him and feed him to the pony so he'll run around here forever?)- of course there was the case in B.C. where psycho killer Willie Pickton fed many lo-rate hookers to the pigs on his farm... which someone eventually ate.
the decay cycle sped up does not sell the argument, Carl, as the normal decay of flesh takes ages longer.
and just so dude really understands his karma, a high percentage of the feed sinks to the bottom, so some of dude's "energy" will be forever enmired in lice infested muck

By: ted

ted — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:55:47 +0000

Carl, sometimes, I actually do kid, yes.

By: J of The Sandhills

J of The Sandhills — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:17:12 +0000

at least the fish near a viking funeral get a hot meal

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:48:05 +0000

He may not turn into crap. His atoms may filter into reproductive systems, or eggs, and some future fish may be born with an inborn sense to not get caught. Which would be neat, but then again some atoms from all the fish he's eaten in his life will be absorbed as well.

Either way, graveyards are a waste of space. Donate your body to science.

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:59:26 +0000

That's pretty awesome.

TED: Are you kidding? If you eat any animals - or plants - you're eating the decomposed and earth-processed remains of human beings. Get over it. It's not like picking up a piranha that just ate a chunk of a fresh corpse.

By: ted

ted — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:45:56 +0000

Yuck! I'm glad I don't eat fish.

By: Kirkburn

Kirkburn — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:34:03 +0000

Silly Telegraph ... it's actually "Bridgwater", no "e". I bet they thought it was a spelling error.

By: Idil

Idil — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:32:36 +0000

But then he'll turn into crap

By: Dianne

Dianne — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:19:04 +0000

Good for him. Why take up space on earth when you are gone and not coming back?! My sympathy to his wife and family. I'm so glad they gave him his final wish.