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.

[RatsDawg]

Or, Blue Oyster Cults, “Burnin’ For You”.

[RosieCotton]

Only if you use CFL bulbs with ‘em...

[forkinsocket]

Yes, it's a meathouse.

[exit82]

For the 60s groove, our next selection is “Heat Wave” by Martha and the Vandellas.

[RosieCotton]

How about The Bangles “Eternal Flame”?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

In the show “Lexx”, the dead were put in something called “the protein bank”. Most likely a similar process.

[Army Air Corps]

Next, from the Blue Oyster Cult, “I’m burnin’ for you.”

[exit82]

See post 41—great minds(you two) think alike.

[exit82]

Is that like “Burn Like an Egyptian? ;)

[Sender]

"Oh...do you feel that warm air, sweetie? That's Daddy. He's giving us one last present."

"You mean Daddy's in the heater, Mommy?

"No, sweetie, Daddy's in Heaven."

"Is he messing with the thermostat in Heaven, Mommy?"

(laughs) "No, dear, Daddy is providing renewable energy instead of becoming greenhouse gases. Well, I suppose he's still becoming...let's not talk about it, OK?"

[RosieCotton]

Ungh...

We could also go country and do “Ring of Fire” or Garth Brook’s “Standing Outside the Fire”...

[exit82]

BTW, thank you for your service to our country.

[Army Air Corps]

Up next, the Johnny Cash classic - Ring of Fire...

[Waco]

And England is set to surpass the U.S. standard of living?? Good grief!!

[Sender]

I fell into a burnin' ring of fire,
I went down, down, down, but the flames got higher,
And it burns, burns, burns, that ring of fire,
Environmentally-conscious, heat-exchanger-equipped ring of fire.

[Army Air Corps]

Later, they could do a retrospective of the group called After the Fire...

[Sender]

Got’cha covered.

[exit82]

Another match! Gene Rayburn would be so proud.

Actually, any song by “Stoke”-ley Carmichael would be appropriate.

[RosieCotton]

Thanks...wasn’t much. I was a chairborne ranger. ;-)

[RosieCotton]

And, of course, there’s Bob Seger’s “Fire Inside”...