Posted on 10/26/2021 6:40:19 PM PDT by marshmallow
'(I)sn’t traditional burial disrespectful to God’s good, green earth?'
DUBUQUE, Iowa (LifeSiteNews) – The Catholic Archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa, has written to urge the faithful to reject “traditional burial methods” in favor of liquifying a corpse in order to be less “offensive” to the earth and environment.
Archbishop Michael Jackels made the argument in a letter dated October 20 entitled “Alternatives to traditional burial methods.” Making reference to the “two people” who die every second worldwide and the 2.5 million who die annually in the United States, Jackels declared that this “makes burial practices a significant environmental issue.”
'Liquify’ bodies to save the planet
Estimates indicate that “more than 130 square miles of land” would be necessary for “in-ground burials” of those predicted to die in the next two decades, he wrote, lamenting how “natural resources” are used for the coffins and vaults, and that “ground water is polluted with embalming waste.”
Archbishop Jackels further critiqued the process of cremation, a practice forbidden for Catholics until recent decades, saying each cremation “uses about 30 gallons of fuel, and both the burning and the body itself release pollutants into the air.”
Praising the Catholic Church for being “a leader in the use of green burial,” Jackels proposed “alkaline hydrolysis” as the “green” alternative.
The process, according to the archbishop, involves combining “hot water, lye, air pressure and circulation” to “liquify a corpse in a matter of hours, which can then be safely poured in the ground.”
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The name fits.
Sorry but this is disrespectful and disgusting.
WTF?
Ill bet that smells delightful.
Is this like the opposite of dehydrating someone. You remmove all the solids and just leave a pool of liquid?
Just add calcium salts to restore?
which can then be safely poured in the ground.”
Hells Bells, just wrap in in some cloth and stick me in the ground.
Nature will do what it’s been doing for millions of years.
As long as they don’t use Bath Salts, it would be worth a try!
>>Praising the Catholic Church for being “a leader in the use of green burial,”<<
He means soylent green, Jim.
People can do whatever they want. People have been lying in graves and returning dust to dust for thousands of years. He does not know what he is talking about. Modern insanity.
Horrific and 100% contrary to long-settled Church doctrine on Resurrection of the Body (or, as in some more literal translations of the original Greek have it, Resurrection of the Flesh).
I saw the depop Obama crony talk about doing just this years ago.
Ehrlich or some such.
Archbishop ? When are these guys going to teach the Bible?
The Church traditionally discouraged cremation because of the belief in resurrection of the body. Come that day, the Lord will be reconstructing many many bodies. We Christians aren’t ancient Egyptians, we don’t have to preserve the body or see the soul perish, so I can personally accept cremation.
But this bishop comes across like a Gaea worshiper. Cemeteries are manicured parks where you walk with reverence, nothing awful about that.
They are serious about it because it is a “greener” way to dispose bodies.
Only catch is the bones don’t liquefy, nor any implants, dentures, etc. The relatives can keep all those.
Memorial service at 6pm Thursday followed Pouring out ceremony in the park at 7pm.
As long as it doesn’t turn out like the ash-scattering scene in “The Big Lebowski” that might be preferable!
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