Humans Should Be Trees

There is no value to humanity. Give it a thousand years or so, and humanity's footprint may either grow to such an extent that it has become oversaturated or completely been wiped away with the lack of mercy that time gives everything. Trees, however, may just survive if the parasites ever do decide to stop leaching from Mother Earth. Humans are better off merging with nature on a more literal level. In comes the solution. Human compost. Effective, efficient, and with the current times, borderline necessary. Forget coffins, forget burning bodies, consider soil, even a "family" meal is more eco-friendly. 

Time is not a friend for many. However, investing in a second life born out of the first one is a way a person can choose to pretend that the dead continue to live. Let me put it this way, which situation feels more wholesome? A person suffering from amnesia visits the grave and not recognizing which one is his or her loved one. Or the same person watering his garden which is fertilized by his or her loved one. As a human, we are bound to show compassion to some extent to something, anything. So instead of holding onto memories of a useless fleshless corpse in the ground, you may be better off growing more memories with a green friend. One might argue that having a person you care about to be turned into soil sounds counterintuitive. Obviously, everyone loves to miss the value of things or people once they are out of their reach and would therefore love to respect their image of what they were instead. 

To that argument, I say, a freshly grown potato grown with the help of a dear old uncle which would eventually reach the stomachs of a family is a much better thought than a lonely skeleton laying in the ground six feet under. Cremation can be seen as a similar way of showing respect as much as composting. However, cremation does not help the environment as much as one might assume. So chin up and eat your grandmother, you know she would hate to see you hungry.