Today in Sweden the wheels
of progress are in motion. After
twelve and a half years as a company cultivating an alternative concept for
bodily disposition, Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak is on the threshold of realizing the
physical actualization of it. Within the
boundaries of an established factory, specialists will begin assembling
components for the prototype promator that subsequently will be used to
introduce the process of promession.
People throughout the world
have shown interest in this burgeoning technique that, as the name implies,
promises to return human bodies to the earth from which they came. The biologically logical approach
allows “biodegraders” – useful bacteria and fungal contributors along with
purposeful small animals and their larger cohorts – to fulfill their ecological
roles as decomposition agents. For this to happen, bodily substance is first reduced, after which the transfigured remains are buried.
A freeze-drying process
begins within one and a half weeks after death when a body, frozen to minus eighteen degrees Celsius, is submerged in liquid nitrogen (readily
obtained as residual portions of supplies delivered to medical facilities for
varied purposes). This causes it
to become brittle, whereupon a vibrating mechanism then transforms the body
into an organic powder. About
seventy percent of human composition is water, so a vacuum chamber is
used to extract the moisture by way of evaporation. The final procedural step
is the removal of surgically implanted parts and mercuric elements through the use of a metal separator.
The organic remains, in
their sanitary and odorless state, can be placed in a coffin made of cornstarch
and buried in the topsoil of a shallow grave. Both the container and the contents become nutrient soil, or humus, once decomposition has occurred within six to twelve or eighteen months,
depending on environmental conditions.
Since this material can nourish vegetation through its root system, a
family may choose to plant a tree or shrub over the burial site in recognition
of ongoing life and symbolic of the individual whose substance contributed to
it.
Contrast the sight of burial territory dominated by stone structures with property accentuated by blossoming trees
and foliage. Of course, personal
appeal is in the eye of the beholder, but if you’d like to “become” a rose bush or a cherry tree situated in a fertile field of nature's colorful masterpieces, there’s a way you can fortify a potential for it to happen.
Besides following the
progress of promession via Facebook, you can register to be part of the
Promessa Organic non-profit organization’s fan club, possibly engendering potential interest in this form of disposition for yourself:
http://www.prolifera.se/register-here/?lang=en
http://www.prolifera.se/register-here/?lang=en
Based on your whereabouts –
without revealing your name – your support will be noted through the placement
of your general location on a world map.
From that you’ll be able to see if you reside in one of the hot spots of
interest.
Before this end-of-life
biological salute to the earth can be operative in the United States, it will
require the voices of many to be heard by the powers that be. So if this alternative form of
disposition makes sense to you personally, you have the capacity to nurture its
grass roots and help bring it to fruition.
For further information: http://www.promessa.se/en/
