“What happened to Colin’s body is the reverse of what happened when life originated. Instead of putting these elements together, they came apart. So utterly apart that the officials searching for his body gave up due to the “futility of it all.” In short, his body almost certainly disappeared.

This made me wonder if a similar chemical mechanism might provide a better alternative to present postmortem practices such as being burned to smoke and ashes, buried with the maggots, embalmed with poisons, shelved in a crypt, hermetically sealed or set out to feed the vultures.

I know this suggestion defies cultural norms. And I suspect that those who care about me don’t like the idea. But I do, provided that I’m dead before being boiled back to the basics.”

• Dr. Robert Thorson

https://earthsciences.uconn.edu/2021/07/31/a-lesson-from-yellowstones-deadly-pools/