'@potatoe4life' yes, I've meant that Donner party. Hakarl requires preparation process, which is wasteful both on Mars and in transit to Mars. Also entire point of it is to make toxic meat of Greenland shark somewhat safe to eat, which is not an issue with human, uh... tissue.
Also I wasn't serious.
I'd say in transit to Mars I'd consider burial in space more appropriate - just give it a good push and have an extra course correction (or two) soon after, so the corpse won't have a chance to catch up with spacecraft. On Mars it maybe easier to just bury the body in a spacesuit, desiccation by exposure to atmosphere or vacuum may prevent pressure buildup from decomposition.
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'@potatoe4life' yes, I've meant that Donner party. Hakarl requires preparation process, which is wasteful both on Mars and in transit to Mars. Also entire point of it is to make toxic meat of Greenland shark somewhat safe to eat, which is not an issue with human, uh... tissue.
Also I wasn't serious.
I'd say in transit to Mars I'd consider burial in space more appropriate - just give it a good push and have an extra course correction (or two) soon after, so the corpse won't have a chance to catch up with spacecraft. On Mars it maybe easier to just bury the body in a spacesuit, desiccation by exposure to atmosphere or vacuum may prevent pressure buildup from decomposition.