I'm all about the zero cost donate my body to science method, and sure if there was a zero/minimal cost plot of land someone wanted to dig a hole in and toss my body in, i'm good with that.
1) Minimal cost
2) Greatest benefit to society and or the planet.
And yes of course the dumpster/landfill thing was just a goof comment.

This works well for me https://meded.ucsf.edu/willed-body-program

Sure It sounds fine, but at what price would you pay (money your family won't get) to have this done? If it cost more than direct cremation, would you do it?
Direct cremation at the cheapest $1000-2000 from what i can tell. My googling showed a cost of between $3000-7000 for this service. Personally i think any money spent on getting rid of my body, is wasted money. Put me in a dumpster and take me to the landfill. Also i don't have family that get all weird about death and funerals, etc. so that potential feel good benefit for the living would not be a thing

I'm guessing there is a nice profit to be made for companies that provide such a service, and probably enough people who would feel better having the deceased in their life done away with in this way. If you have the bank and it makes someone feel better than it seems reasonable. Personally i want none of it.

This is Playa Montesinos in downtown Santo Domingo. On Google Earth there is a cruise ship docked less than a kilometer from this beach. Apparently this happens after heavy rains which ties in with studies that show that 90-95% of all the plastic in the oceans comes from 10 rivers, 2 in Africa and 8 in Asia with China being the worst offender. It seems that as third world economies improve, their taste for western throwaway culture increases without a corresponding increase in disposal and recycling infrastructure. I've read somewhere that even where they have landfills they're often located near rivers where rains and floods flush the landfill and allow it to accept more trash.

Apparently on the order of 90% of the plastic in the oceans enters the oceans by way of 10 Asian and African rivers. Not saying landfills are great but they are better than having all your waste flushed into your rivers. I think the main problem is 3rd world countries that have poor infrastructure for waste collection.

... because printer paper wasn't enough in out landfills.

If you really want to add some fuel to your, shall we say, "dislike" of HRC, have a look at this. It's an excerpt of Thomas Frank's new book "Listen, Liberal!". Afterwards, you might have to reassure yourself that HRC is, in fact, not a creation of John Cleese's or Terry Jones'.

Edit: I should probably have provided an appetizer.

"For poor and working-class American women, the floor was pulled up and hauled off to the landfill some twenty years ago. There is no State Department somewhere to pay for their cell phones or to pick up their day-care expenses. And one of the people who helped to work this deed was the very woman I watched present herself as the champion of the world’s downtrodden femininity."

Would be better still if they came back as Coke bottle. Now the landfills are going to be filled with coke bottles and crappy little red attachments.

Nice idea, but it would be better if they sorted it before they just send it to the dump. Not sure you need to send logs/branches and recyclable materials to the landfill. It certainly moves slowly enough to sort.

After a treasure trove of games discovered in a NM landfill. has been added as a related post - related requested by oritteropo on that post.

Says Sweden when you follow the link.

And just as a FYI. Hydraulic beds can get weird failures where they will raise on their own. I was told stories about one that would raise on it's own due to some problem with the controls, and the guy wasn't paying attention and drove down the road smacking all the traffic signals. AFAIK newer trucks have lock outs to disable the lift of the bed, but shit happens.

Honk at em if you see some going down the road with their bed raising (aside from salt trucks), cuz you never know what they might have in their bed that'll come spilling over on you. (seen a truck like this one hauling human waste they would put on crops but had too much of so it went to the landfill...looked like pudding and landfills smell really bad...and you could smell from a half mile when that truck was coming to be weighed on it's way in.....I still don't know how he legally hauled that around in what is essentially a non-sealed container.

I gave up after he insisted that the "goal" of libertarians is morality. First off, the idea that relying on private solutions as opposed to government ones will result in any kind of enhancement to morality is highly dubious. He specifically refers to waste as being less moral, and I suspect that the government is wasteful in different ways than private industry, but I would need to see some serious studies before I would consider this viewpoint to hold any water. Specifically, private industry just shifts wastefulness onto consumers, which is why you have things like unrepairable electronics filling up landfills. That's consumer waste, not private industry waste. It's just that the private industry can usually make more money when consumers are wasteful or are forced to be wasteful. The net result isn't that the system is less wasteful or more moral, the net result is that the waste ends up happening in a different place.

I gave up after that.

ROTFL at the timing of the audio interrupt at 0:12. Sounds like a whole bunch of these are going to be indestructible landfill at some point too.

/pessimism

So, he fed a hawk--just as good. Much better than the usual wasteful procedure of killing the mouse with a standard spring trap and throwing the body into the trash/landfill. And yes, I tend to root for the predators in most nature documentaries too; I hate it when the producers queue the evil music just because a meat eater comes on the scene. (Except that one in "Earth" where the pride of lions slowly slowly takes down a small elephant in the dark; that was heartbreaking.)

*isdupe=http://videosift.com/video/Human-Spirit-Violins-Cellos-in-slums-and-landfills