Food For Worms & People, Too
By Gary DeMar

LARRY HAGMAN of “I Dream of Jeannie” and “Dallas” fame had this to say about what he wants done with his body when he dies. “I want my friends to eat me. I want to be fed through a wood chipper, spread over a wheat field, then have a cake baked from the crop for all my pals to munch on” (Newsweek, July 22, 2002). It’s been done before. Sort of. “When the body of Roger Williams, founder of the Rode Island colony, was exhumed for reburial, it was found that the root of an apple true had penetrated the head of the coffin and had followed down Williams’ spine, dividing into a fork at the legs. The tree absorbed the chemicals of the decaying body and had transmuted them into its wood and fruit. The apples, in turn, had been eaten by people, quite unconscious of the fact that they were indirectly taking into their systems part of the long-dead Williams” (Merrill C. Tenney, The Reality of the Resurrection, 170).