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New body 'liquefaction' unit unveiled in Florida funeral home
BBC News ^ | August 30, 2011 | Neil Bowdler

Posted on 08/31/2011 6:09:45 PM PDT by MamaDearest

Excerpt only website: 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alkalinehydrolysis; florida; funeral; glasgow; napl
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To: Track9

Well, let’s see, if I am allowed to rot in the soil after I die, that should be green, shouldn’t it?


21 posted on 08/31/2011 6:21:17 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: MamaDearest

I wish it were legally possible to have graveyards in orchards. Bury the bodies six feet under in fertile soil. I like the idea of growing a tree. It would sure put an end to the funeral home business.


22 posted on 08/31/2011 6:22:18 PM PDT by Carismar
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To: humblegunner; MamaDearest
Life.

Please get one. Soon. Before you drive us all crazy.

23 posted on 08/31/2011 6:22:25 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: MamaDearest
Body tissue is dissolved and the liquid poured into the municipal water system.

Still my favorite line in the piece. Mom, is this iced tea grandma or grandpa!

24 posted on 08/31/2011 6:22:45 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If the Tea Party was a bunch of Islamofascist "rebels", would the state run "media" like us too?)
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To: MamaDearest

So instead of my widow picking up my ashes, she’s handed a gallon jug.


25 posted on 08/31/2011 6:23:25 PM PDT by Octar
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

ROFL


26 posted on 08/31/2011 6:23:30 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: MamaDearest
Soup of the day...”Chefs Surprise”.
27 posted on 08/31/2011 6:25:08 PM PDT by JPG (Palin '12)
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To: MamaDearest
Making soap out of people, now all they need to add is lampshades.
28 posted on 08/31/2011 6:25:33 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Holy flippin' crap, Sarah rocks the world!)
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To: MamaDearest

Sick-


29 posted on 08/31/2011 6:27:44 PM PDT by Red6
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To: Octar

>> So instead of my widow picking up my ashes, she’s handed a gallon jug.

I wonder if you have to refrigerate it.

And, if you do, I wonder if you could use it to play a nasty prank on that @#$%^& roommate who always drinks out of the jug instead of using a glass.


30 posted on 08/31/2011 6:27:52 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: Nervous Tick
"'allows for the complete separation of dental amalgam for safe disposal'

Disposal, my eye! They’re going to sell it."


...as well as anything else they can harvest, reprocess, and establish a market for.


31 posted on 08/31/2011 6:28:44 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Gads..these people are insane! Now you can’t even DIE without worrying about frakin ‘greenhouse gases’!

HEY LIBS..FOR THE LOVE OF GOD....LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE!!


33 posted on 08/31/2011 6:30:00 PM PDT by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: MamaDearest

More work for plumbers!


34 posted on 08/31/2011 6:32:38 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: Morpheus2009

“Green” is a meaningless BS word that should not be used unless describing a color.


35 posted on 08/31/2011 6:32:57 PM PDT by Track9 (Make War!!)
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To: MamaDearest; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows

Never know what you'll find at warehouse sales.

36 posted on 08/31/2011 6:33:31 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The liberal press applauded when the NY Times hacked Newt Gingrich's phone calls.)
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To: MamaDearest

I’ll bet that things smells great under operation. Wouldn’t want to be the guy that stirs the pot to keep it juicy - might see some stuff bobbing around that you wouldn’t want to see.


37 posted on 08/31/2011 6:35:21 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth
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To: penelopesire

Jeez, these are people that would not have complained about Hitlers ovens except for green house gases.


38 posted on 08/31/2011 6:39:20 PM PDT by ully2
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To: MamaDearest

Come on, sweetie, they’re about to flush Grandpa down the drain, you wouldn’t want to miss that, would you?

I guess though it’s all just the same path.. If one ceremony is meaningless, then all ceremonies become meaningless... But that’s ok, homosexuals shacking up and calling themselves married doesn’t hurt anyone at all..


39 posted on 08/31/2011 6:40:04 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: humblegunner

Look here, FRiend. MamaDearest posted an interesting article and we’re having a good time kicking it around and laughing.

I don’t *care* that it was posted before (at NINE IN THE MORNING, as it happens — a long time ago on internet time). She posted it again and I’m enjoying it.

Now please take your sack of turds and go find a different punchbowl to pollute, ‘k?


40 posted on 08/31/2011 6:41:13 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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