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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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1 posted on 08/31/2011 6:09:50 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: MamaDearest

Bass -O- Matic


2 posted on 08/31/2011 6:11:29 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The GOP has been "moderated" into a coma.)
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To: MamaDearest

Another “first” for Florida?


3 posted on 08/31/2011 6:11:50 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: MamaDearest

>> allows for the complete separation of dental amalgam for safe disposal

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

SOYLENT GOLD IS PEOPLE!!!


4 posted on 08/31/2011 6:12:22 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: MamaDearest

Well hell! That’s TWICE today!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2771429/posts

Does that mean they can liquify twice the bodies?

Or does it just mean that you failed to search?


5 posted on 08/31/2011 6:12:33 PM PDT by humblegunner (The kinder, gentler version...)
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To: MamaDearest

People-lutefisk.


6 posted on 08/31/2011 6:12:33 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: humblegunner

Oh yeah humble, I did search, Glasgow did not come in up FR search, nor did funeral.


7 posted on 08/31/2011 6:13:39 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: HiTech RedNeck

>> People-lutefisk.

Gross! But kinda true.


8 posted on 08/31/2011 6:13:55 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: MamaDearest

Grandma gets turned into a battery. No thanks.


9 posted on 08/31/2011 6:14:15 PM PDT by Track9 (Make War!!)
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To: MamaDearest

“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.”

Huh. Beats digging them gold teeth out with a knife, eh?


10 posted on 08/31/2011 6:14:22 PM PDT by jessduntno (Obama shanks. America tanks.)
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To: MamaDearest

Gives new meaning to “go green.”


11 posted on 08/31/2011 6:14:58 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: Nervous Tick

My thoughts exactly. What is wrong with these people?


12 posted on 08/31/2011 6:16:25 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: MamaDearest

Mommy is Grandma going to have a grave? No honey we are having her desolved in acid.


13 posted on 08/31/2011 6:17:21 PM PDT by Marty62 (Marty60)
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To: MamaDearest
Yeah, but are the remains nutritious?


14 posted on 08/31/2011 6:17:28 PM PDT by C210N (0bama, Making the US safe for Global Marxism)
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To: MamaDearest
From last spring:

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

15 posted on 08/31/2011 6:17:36 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: MamaDearest
I did search

Interesting that I was able to come up with a duplicate thread.

The previous thread must have been hiding, waiting for your awesome repetitive effort.

16 posted on 08/31/2011 6:17:48 PM PDT by humblegunner (The kinder, gentler version...)
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>> What is wrong with these people?

Nothing that a relaxing soak in a vat of lye wouldn’t cure. :-)


17 posted on 08/31/2011 6:18:39 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: MamaDearest

I’ve heard of liquidating your assets, but liquifying your asses ... now that’s a new one.


18 posted on 08/31/2011 6:19:37 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: cripplecreek

But wait if you call in the next 30 minutes you’ll receive a buy one get one free, s/h costs only.


19 posted on 08/31/2011 6:19:48 PM PDT by boomop1
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To: jessduntno

You still gotta go through the pockets for loose change first.


20 posted on 08/31/2011 6:19:56 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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