When we die, our chemical processes (the metabolism) ceases to function and we immediately begin to lose energy to the air as our body cools. The rest of our body makes tasty food for microorganisms that are already in our body as well as others that are attracted to it, such as fly larvae, worms, etc. Over time, the entire energy content of our body returns to the Earth and the atmosphere from which it came. If you are cremated, none of this energy is made available to nature even though we had been drawing from nature for our entire life for sources of food. When you are cremated, the stored
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