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A rival to burial: Dissolving bodies with lye
AP ^ | 5-8-2008 | AP

Posted on 05/08/2008 4:52:20 PM PDT by Westlander

Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest — dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: body; dissolving; lye
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You could be drinking Grandma in the future.
1 posted on 05/08/2008 4:52:20 PM PDT by Westlander
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To: Westlander

Soylent syrup is people!!!!

Ewwwwwwwww.


2 posted on 05/08/2008 4:55:08 PM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --Soccer Mom and proud Rush Conservative with no dog in the presidential race now *sigh*)
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To: Westlander

Brings a literal meaning to “Life gone down the drain.”


3 posted on 05/08/2008 4:57:36 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: Westlander

“dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain.”

Sometimes you gotta go with the flow.


4 posted on 05/08/2008 4:57:44 PM PDT by Rebelbase (McCain: The Third Bush Term ?)
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To: Westlander
State Rep. Barbara French said she, for one, might choose alkaline hydrolysis.

I'm sure she's a drain person.

5 posted on 05/08/2008 4:58:38 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Ted Kennedy - Codename -> "Bobber")
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To: Westlander

This is sick. There is no shortage of space to bury people in the US of A.


6 posted on 05/08/2008 4:59:10 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (Don't cheer for Obama too hard - the krinton syndicate is moving back into the WH.)
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To: Westlander

“You could be drinking Grandma in the future.”

Suddenly, my Old Grand Dad doesn’t taste so grand any more.


7 posted on 05/08/2008 5:02:36 PM PDT by 353FMG (Don't make the mistake to think that Government is a Friend of the People)
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To: Westlander

Okay, now that is just wrong.


8 posted on 05/08/2008 5:04:12 PM PDT by G.Love (Romney '12)
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To: Westlander

No, never.

Two years ago my mother passed away. She wanted to be cremated and in that form go one last time to her favorite restaurant. We did that and the waitress who regularly served us came over, asked about mom, and was shocked when we indicated the cube-like container sitting in a chair in front of her!

Can’t do that with grace if you’re a gooey mess. Probably smell, too.


9 posted on 05/08/2008 5:04:42 PM PDT by SatinDoll (Desperately desiring a conservative government.)
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To: Westlander

I would prefer to be left for the birds in a forest like a Parsee


10 posted on 05/08/2008 5:10:02 PM PDT by buck jarret
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To: Westlander

Be sure you’re on City sewer. Or otherwise all of those fivers Grandma fed you on your birthday will go the septic guy.


11 posted on 05/08/2008 5:10:13 PM PDT by yooper (If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there......)
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To: Westlander
brownish, syrupy residue

I just love the pictures we can paint with words. ;-)

12 posted on 05/08/2008 5:13:39 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: Westlander
Brown, syrupy........my GOD! It is Mrs. Butterworth in that bottle!!!! *WRETCH*


13 posted on 05/08/2008 5:19:05 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Paul Krugman: Conscience Of A Crapweasel. (For lack of a better tagline at the moment.)
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To: Viking2002

Dang, dude!!! :-o

Beverage alert next time!!!
[furiously wipes drink off monitor]

*That* was funny. Funniest thing I’ve read in a loooooong time, LOL!!!! :-)


14 posted on 05/08/2008 5:27:01 PM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --Soccer Mom and proud Rush Conservative with no dog in the presidential race now *sigh*)
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To: Westlander

A disrespectful disposal of the creation of God in His image.


15 posted on 05/08/2008 5:28:02 PM PDT by Twinkie (TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT !!!)
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To: Westlander

Stew?


16 posted on 05/08/2008 5:34:45 PM PDT by Siberian-psycho (An oppressed class which did not try to possess arms, would deserve to be treated as slaves." Lenin)
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To: pillut48


17 posted on 05/08/2008 5:39:45 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Paul Krugman: Conscience Of A Crapweasel. (For lack of a better tagline at the moment.)
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To: Westlander

Ewwwwwww.


18 posted on 05/08/2008 5:49:12 PM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: Westlander; Gabz; gardengirl; girlangler

One of the best poems ever written, IMHO:

POST HUMUS
By Patti Tana

Scatter my ashes in my garden
so I can be near my loves.
Say a few honest words, sing a gentle song,
join hands in a cirle of flesh.
Please tell some stories about me
making you laugh. I love to make you laugh.
When I’ve had time to settle, and green
gathers into buds, remember I love blossoms
bursting in spring. As the season ripens
remember my persistent passion.
And if you come in my garden
on an August afternoon
pluck a bright red globe,
let juice run down your chin and the seeds
stick to your cheek. When I’m dead
I want folks to smile and say...”That Patti,
she sure is some tomato!”


19 posted on 05/08/2008 6:07:20 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Westlander

I dunno, somehow I think if we just returned our bodies to the earth (with the minimum of processing), things would all work out.

I like the idea of these natural cemetaries. Bodies are not embalmed and are buried directly in the ground, as I understand it, whenever one wants to dig. The place is marked for a time so that it is not disturbed while the body is decomposing. The grounds are tended as a natural park/garden with paths, flowering plants and trees. No headstones. There is unlimited room so long as there are no huge crowds at once. Sounds nice to me and sounds like it might be the way things were intended.


20 posted on 05/08/2008 6:12:11 PM PDT by fightinJAG (RUSH: McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton longer than we've been in Iraq, and never gave up.)
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