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Would you eat produce farmed in a cemetery?

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Let's just say this is an old, but active cemetery, so all different stages of decomp happening. And of course the bodies are 6 feet down and enclosed, but.......you know. Now let's assume the soil is quite fertile and produces like crazy. Are you going to eat these delicious veggies or not?
 
Let's just say this is an old, but active cemetery, so all different stages of decomp happening. And of course the bodies are 6 feet down and enclosed, but.......you know. Now let's assume the soil is quite fertile and produces like crazy. Are you going to eat these delicious veggies or not?
Where did this thought come from?
 
Let's just say this is an old, but active cemetery, so all different stages of decomp happening. And of course the bodies are 6 feet down and enclosed, but.......you know. Now let's assume the soil is quite fertile and produces like crazy. Are you going to eat these delicious veggies or not?
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Also what got you thinking about this specific scenario?
 
Let's just say this is an old, but active cemetery, so all different stages of decomp happening. And of course the bodies are 6 feet down and enclosed, but.......you know. Now let's assume the soil is quite fertile and produces like crazy. Are you going to eat these delicious veggies or not?

After doing some digging... searching on the internet... the general thing I find is that when bodies break down, they release nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus that plants can use.

Natural burials could make the soil richer. However, modern burial practices, like sealed caskets and embalming, can slow this process down or even introduce harmful chemicals like formaldehyde into the soil.

Plus, most plant roots don’t grow deep enough to reach nutrients from buried bodies, so those nutrients would need to work their way up over time.

Now I am deleting my search history.
 
In 2018 I buried my dog in the backyard, a couple years later my mother planted rhubarb basically right on top of where she is buried. I usually don't think about it but whenever my sister is around and a strawberry rhubarb pie gerts served she likes to ask me what it's like eating my dead dog. I usually wipe away a tear and tell her midnight would have wanted it this way.
 

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