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Decomposition would be best in the open, not buried in the soil. You need oxygen for all kind of life to eat your corpse.

Sky Burial would be my favorite way to go.

I come from a culture where this is the norm. In fact they encourage vultures to eat the dead during the sky burial.

I've always liked the idea. Living in the Pacific North West, I would love to be taken to the top of a mountain and left at the top.

That said, I understand that this nice idea is not appropriate, because at scale it would ruin the mountains for the living :P