Posted on 08/31/2011 7:08:13 AM PDT by tlb
A Glasgow-based company has installed its first commercial "alkaline hydrolysis" unit at a Florida funeral home.
The unit by Resomation Ltd is billed as a green alternative to cremation and works by dissolving the body in heated alkaline water.
The facility has been installed at the Anderson-McQueen funeral home in St Petersburg, and will be used for the first time in the coming weeks. It is hoped other units will follow in the US, Canada and Europe.
The makers claim the process produces a third less greenhouse gas than cremation, uses a seventh of the energy, and allows for the complete separation of dental amalgam for safe disposal.
"Resomation was developed in response to the public's increasing environmental concerns," company founder Sandy Sullivan told BBC News. "It gives them that working third choice, which allows them to express those concerns in a very positive and I think personal way."
The system works by submerging the body in a solution of water and potassium hydroxide which is pressurised to 10 atmospheres and heated to 180C for between two-and-a-half and three hours.
Body tissue is dissolved and the liquid poured into the municipal water system. Mr Sullivan, a biochemist by training, says tests have proven the effluent is sterile and contains no DNA, and poses no environmental risk.
The bones are then removed from the unit and processed in a "cremulator", the same machine that is used to crush bone fragments following cremation into ash. Metals including mercury and artificial joints and implants are safely recovered.
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Wouldn’t a really big blender work just as well?
I see a new plot for CSI Miami.
Oh that ought to sit well with the public.
New jingle: ♫ and away goes mama, down the drain ♫
Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!
Yeah. That kind of "green".
Mix it with Everclear and you can attend your own wake!
IIRC, the Nazis were careful to remove the gold filings before cremating the bodies at Dachau, Aschwitz, etc.
“But then I saw the fields with my own eyes, watched them liquify the dead so they could be fed to the living...” - Morpheus, The Matrix
So is this what the democrat politicians plan on feeding the food stamp recipients after they've spent all of everyone elses money?
All they'd have to do is add vinegar, and the faithful recipients can have a nutritious, user friendly shake. They won't even be asked to cook it. (We know how they hate doing extra.)
Oh that ought to sit well with the public.
Drink up everybody!
The mob has been doing this for years. It’s called base catalyzed saponification.
FUNNY and so, SOOOO gross!
I was thinking wood chipper myself.
It is difficult enough getting folks to accept cremation.
THis liquification idea is going to go over like a far+ in church.
bio-diesel?
Hey mom! Grandma tastes like chicken!
Drink em up, yum!
I still won’t eat at Satriale’s..
Gotta make a change to my will:
... I want my body to be cremated, NOT DISSOLVED, and my ashes...
If you find a chunk, just spit it out.
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