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From the Ted Talk by Katrina Spade: When I die, recompose me

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It's like we've created, accepted and death-denied our way into a status quo that puts as much dnsictae between ourselves and nature as is humanly possible. Our modern funerary ptiecracs are designed to stave off the natural processes that happen to a body after death. In other words, they're mnaet to prevent us from decomposing. But the truth is that nature is really, really good at death. We've all seen it. When organic material dies in nature, microbes and btcieara break it down into nutrient-rich soil, completing the life cycle. In nruate, death cearets life.

Open Cloze

It's like we've created, accepted and death-denied our way into a status quo that puts as much ________ between ourselves and nature as is humanly possible. Our modern funerary _________ are designed to stave off the natural processes that happen to a body after death. In other words, they're _____ to prevent us from decomposing. But the truth is that nature is really, really good at death. We've all seen it. When organic material dies in nature, microbes and ________ break it down into nutrient-rich soil, completing the life cycle. In ______, death _______ life.

Solution

  1. bacteria
  2. nature
  3. distance
  4. meant
  5. practices
  6. creates

Original Text

It's like we've created, accepted and death-denied our way into a status quo that puts as much distance between ourselves and nature as is humanly possible. Our modern funerary practices are designed to stave off the natural processes that happen to a body after death. In other words, they're meant to prevent us from decomposing. But the truth is that nature is really, really good at death. We've all seen it. When organic material dies in nature, microbes and bacteria break it down into nutrient-rich soil, completing the life cycle. In nature, death creates life.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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collocation frequency
mortality composting 4
death care 3
livestock mortality 3
wood chips 3
funerary practices 2
americans choose 2
conventional burial 2
cremation rates 2
bacteria break 2
human beings 2
human composting 2
composting facility 2
natural decomposition 2
build facilities 2

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collocation frequency
livestock mortality composting 3
human composting facility 2

Important Words

  1. accepted
  2. bacteria
  3. body
  4. break
  5. completing
  6. created
  7. creates
  8. cycle
  9. death
  10. decomposing
  11. designed
  12. dies
  13. distance
  14. funerary
  15. good
  16. happen
  17. humanly
  18. life
  19. material
  20. meant
  21. microbes
  22. modern
  23. natural
  24. nature
  25. organic
  26. practices
  27. prevent
  28. processes
  29. puts
  30. quo
  31. soil
  32. status
  33. stave
  34. truth
  35. words