"'Now they recover over ninety-eight per cent of it. More than a kilo and a half per adult corpse.... Fine to think that we can go on being socially useful even after we're dead. Making plants grow"' (Huxley 73).
The society in Brave New World is built on stability and sustainability through technology. One way they achieve this is through the completion of the Phosphorus Cycle. As plants and animals die, the nitrogen in their bodies is released into the ground. Plants then use this nitrogen to grow and prosper. If we eat these plants, we ingest their nitrogen and become nitrogen rich ourselves. As we die and are buried, we start the cycle over again until another human consumes the same particle of nitrogen we had many years before. We, in the Brave New World, speed up this cycle by eliminating the time needed for decomposition. A large cremation plant captures all the nitrogen released from the cremating bodies and turns it into the nitrogen that plants absorb. The nitrogen captured is then released to plants that will be consumed, hence the title "eat me when i die kids".
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