[pct-l] Good uses for "Dead Hiker Husbands"

[Melanie Clarke]

All joking aside, I think "Green Burials" are the way to go, especially for
us hikers.  I once considered cremation as it is better than millions of
graveyards with 7 billion people.  Pretty soon the whole earth will be
nothing but graveyards.  However, cremation requires a large quantity of
fossil fuel and pollutes the air.  In a green burial, people are wrapped
only in a shroud and returned to the earth and they plant a tree over you
instead of a tombstone.  The earth needs more forests to buffer our carbon
production so leaving behind a forest will be better for the planet long
term and is a fitting end for a hiker.

Diet Plan

On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Jim & Jane Moody <moodyjj at comcast.net>
wrote:

> I make lamps out of usual and unusual stuff, and my kids have threatened
> to embalm me and make me into a floor lamp. I think they were kidding.
>
> Mango
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Reinhold Metzger" <reinholdmetzger at cox.net>
> To: "PCT" <pct-l at backcountry.net>, Hiker97 at aol.com
> Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2016 2:14:15 PM
> Subject: [pct-l] Good uses for "Dead Hiker Husbands"
>
> SWITCHBACK,
> Big Hummel is gone,...AsABat is gone,...and now Baltimore Jack is gone.
> They all were much younger than you and I.
> That made me realize, you and I, we are getting old.
> I mean you and I, we started hiking long before the current crop was born.
> My hiking career started in the USMC in 1964, where hiking is a way of
> life,
> not a recreation.
> I remember first climbing Mt. Whitney, after the USMC, way back in 1968 and
> have been hiking ever since.
>
> We are part of the "dying hard core breed".....an "endangered species".
>
>
> Did you ever wonder what will become of us after we pass away?
> Will they bury us, put flowers on our graves and mourn for decades to come,
> or will they rejoice and say good riddance?
> Will they erect a monument to us or engrave on our head stones....here lie
> Switchback and Reinhold....the last of the hard core breed, who tamed the
> wilderness, or will they put our bodies to a good use?
>
> For those women that can't let go and want to cling to the memories...
> 10 GOOD USES FOR DEAD HIKER HUSBANDS.
>
>
> 1. Good scratching post for the cat
> 2. Handy chin-up bar
> 3. Punching bag
> 4. Bumper stop
> 5. Neat Toilet paper roll holder
> 6. Decorative gate post
> 7. Car pool lane second passenger
> 8. Good stiff diving board
> 9. Garden scare crow
> 10. Handy dandy kitchen towel rod
>
>
> JMT Reinhold
> Soon to be scratching post
>
>
>
>
>
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