Posted on 08/31/2011 7:08:13 AM PDT by tlb
Even more green would be to dump granny’s body on the roadside and let the buzzards finish her off. Talk about cost effective and you could take the kids out to witness the recycling process.
Exactly. I drove by an old Catholic cemetery yesterday, and on the gate was written something like, “In this hallowed place and in loving memory rest the bodies of the Christian faithful who await the return of their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
They would be wasting potential biodiesel wouldn’t they?
Years ago a woman went missing. Years later, the level of the river dropped considerably and there was her body still in the car. The car had gone off the road and ended up right by some guy’s water pump. Ick.
Sounds like “Mob Technology” you know to make people “disappear”.
So they are going to build rendering plants? Wonderful smells come from those places.
Oh that ought to sit well with the public.
Our local NIMBYs complained about the smoke from a new crematorium.
I wonder what they would say about “stuff” in their town drinking water? They would blow a gasket!
Just build a bigger hopper....
Hmmm.
Deboning people and spraying their remains into the water system.
Now there’s a job.
If the refractory is running right there should be no smoke at all except a little puff of white stuff at the start when the cardboard box burns. Unless someone is cremated in a wooden casket (it has happened) or the temperature is too low, you won't see anything at all. I believe the NIMBYs imagine more smoke than there really is.
They were concerned on the “effects on their health” and mercury -
http://azstarnet.com/news/article_7cb329ae-dce1-5e44-b241-c34f7f5522ca.html
http://home.comcast.net/~rfurash/cmnotes.htm
But they missed all of the deadlines for protesting the building and zoning permits - the crematorium is now in operation.
From last March:
Judge stops Ohio funeral home from liquefying bodies
(Columbus, OH) -- For two months, a funeral home in Columbus, Ohio has been the only one in the state, and maybe the country, to offer an unusual alternative to cremation.
But now, the Department of Health is stepping in to stop it.
The controversial procedure is called alkaline hydrolysis. It converts body tissues to liquid that is then flushed into city sewers. A similar version of the process is used on animal carcasses at the Ohio Department of Agriculture. The Department of Agriculture says it's a more environmentally-friendly way to dispose of bodies.
But state health officials say it's not an acceptable way to dispose of bodies.
According to the Columbus Dispatch, Edwards began using the process in January and had disposed of 19 bodies with it, until the state stopped the funeral home from doing it last week.
http://ozarksfirst.com/fulltext?nxd_id=428566
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