This may sound like a silly question, but why don’t they just dispose of the Boston Bomber Tamerlan  Tsarnav’s carcass as a solid waste, e.g. toss it into a dumpster behind police headquarters, and have it hauled off to a landfill or trash incineration plant? Why does the United States or Massachusetts taxpayers have to pay for a special burial of the body what almost anybody would agree was the terrorist who attacked the Boston Marathon? The person is dead, from his shoot out with police, after committing the horrific Boston bombings.

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There is nothing sacred about the man or who he was. He morally disgusts us in many ways. We as a society believe it’s fine to dispose of other organic material such as dead animals, food waste, and street sweepings in a landfill, so why not a known terrorist? His body would be buried in a mountain of municipal trash, and it would hardly be a drop in the bucket for any landfill. If it’s okay to pile vast amounts of organic material mixed with technical products in heaps on the outskirts of town, then what’s wrong with adding a known terrorist’s carcass to it — like we do for so many other animal carcasses?

While I’m certainly not advocating for more landfilling over recycling very good materials, I think we have a very double standard for the disposal of what anybody would agree is human refuse, compared to what we have for waste products of normal human existence — which if anything should be recycled and recovered. This terrorist is true garbage, and should be treated as such, compared to common “solid waste”, which I believe should be either recycled for its technical materials, or its organics recovered for soil amendment.

If Tamerlan Tsarnaev isn’t garbage, then what is?