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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LindyBill who wrote (10162)	3/4/2007 4:48:58 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36918

They ate Captain Cook: <14 Feb 1779 The theft of a ship's cutter leads Captain Cook to put ashore to demand the return of the boat. the shore party is suddenly attacked by armed warriors and Cook is clubbed & repeatedly stabbed to death. Two Royal Marines are also killed. After negotiations with the Hawaiians, Captain Clerke, now in command, is able to have parts of Cook's body returned. All have been scraped clean of flesh and burned in a fire, except some flesh from Cook's thigh, the scalp, and the hands. The hands are preserved with salt, and there are enough identifying marks that they are able to determine that it is Cook's body. The remains are put into a coffin, and with great ceremony are buried at sea in Kealakekua Bay on 21 February.> I suppose that's good recycling. Waste not, want not. We don't recycle people by eating them. There's hardly any organ donation. We burn them, increasing CO2 levels. They [dead people] could be shipped to Antarctica and permanently frozen to avoid CO2 from decomposition in graves or cremation. Mqurice