Technology can be found in a lot of different places in this day and age, through every stage of life. And now, even in death.
There are all manner of euphemisms for death, notably “pushing up daisies,” an expression referring to flowers growing over a grave. It was first recorded in 1918, in a poem about World War I written by Wilfred Owen: “The dullest Tommy hugs that fancy now./ ‘Pushing up daisies,’ is their creed, you know./ To grain, then, go my fat, to buds my sap,/ For all the usefulness there is in soap.”
Other phrases include the more-familiar “kick the bucket” and “passed away.”
A company in Washington state is named “Return Home,” and deals in the process of “terramation,” which turns out to be a made-up word for the “composting of human remains,” sometimes called “natural organic reduction.”
