Crematorium to keep mourners warm by burning bodies of loved ones

dailymail.co.uk ^ | 7 Jan 2008 | Staff

[forkinsocket]

Heat created by burning the dead at crematoria could be used to keep mourners warm under plans to make funerals more environmentally-friendly.

Instead of letting the gases emitted by cremation escape into the atmosphere, councils want to use them to heat radiators or even generate electricity.

They admit some might find the idea of being kept warm by the remains of their loved-ones macabre.

But there are thought to be no religious objections, and ever-tighter controls on pollution mean such systems could become commonplace.

[forkinsocket]

Taking environmentalism too far.

[SIDENET]

Talk about jumping the shark!

[Army Air Corps]

In “A Brave New World” bodies were incinerated to recover the phosphorous and other minerals (now, THAT is recycling).

[SIDENET]

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

That’s semi-sick.

[VOA]

“Soylent Heat IS PEOPLE!!!”

[Jewels1091]

I have no words for this.....

[digger48]

Oh great, we can have one last weenie roast with Uncle Bob

[Frank_Discussion]

Ghoulish.

[RosieCotton]

This is definitely approaching “Brave New World” or Soylent Green territory, I’d say.

[fhayek]

Macabre? It’s downright ghoulish.

[RosieCotton]

Ha! Exactly!

[fhayek]

beat me by twenty four seconds. ;^)

[bannie]

I agree. There's some sense in it; but...it's freaky.

My kids are supposed to have a tail-gate party (my wish!) when my ashes go up. This may interrupt that.

[nicmarlo]

This is definitely approaching “Brave New World” or Soylent Green territory, I’d say.

I agree. Disgusting.

[SIDENET]

If I’m fat, my family should get some kind of bonus for the extra BTUs I kick out.

[popdonnelly]

Wasn’t humanity aghast when the Nazis recycled dead humans?

[GOPJ]

Ummm, no. Too soylent green...

[doc1019]

Yes, we must make funerals more environmentally friendly. Just bury them; the dusts of time will make them environmentally friendly.

[Army Air Corps]

I have known some uber enviros (I had classes with a few in undergrad). Many of them were obsessed with “ending the tyranny of man” and spoke warmly of the end of the human race. Tacky me, I once asked why they didn’t lead by example...