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I teach freshman biology.  My initial unit is on ecology.  We spend six
weeks exploring what is and what should be in regards to the
environment.  Are you currently teaching the course?  What would you
like me to share?

In article <36C6BCDB.7A07E815@hotmail.com>,
  Sharon Roddy <sroddy78@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I teach freshman biology.  My initial unit is on ecology.  We spend six
> weeks exploring what is and what should be in regards to the
> environment.  Are you currently teaching the course?  What would you
> like me to share?
>

My suggestion:

Cremation
by Aart Jurriaanse

Throughout the ages the many races, each with its own customs, traditions and
mystical and religious backgrounds, have devised numerous methods for
disposing of discarded physical vehicles. These have varied from setting out
the corpses to be devoured by wild animals, such as hyenas, crocodiles,
tigers and vultures; burial, with the body in various postures, in graves,
caves, tombs, catacombs, sepulchres and pyramids; burning on funeral pyres or
other forms of cremation; and finally embalming to preserve the corpse
against decomposition.

Several of these methods are still practised, but burial in Mother Earth is
probably still the most commonly used method. This is most unhygienic because
so many deaths are caused by infectious diseases, and in burying these
corpses the soil becomes contaminated by the causal germs and viruses, which
may remain contagious for many years. Thus the burial of millions of the
infected corpses has contaminated large parts of the Earth's surface. By far
the most effective, hygienic, and also the 'neatest' way of disposing of
these physical remains is by cremation. The exact technique applied, and
whether open fires or electrical equipment is used, is immaterial. What is
important is that cremation is increasingly gaining ground over other
practices, and this may in future at least contribute towards purifying the
soil, and reducing sources of infection.

This was copied from a past issue of Share International <www.shareintl.org>

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