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.
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Some people call him the space cowboy.
Some call him the gangster of love.
Some people call him Maurice....
This is simply disgusting. I don’t want to brush my teeth using water contaminated with alkali and liquefied grandmothers. fyi—An alternative just down the road from St. Pete in Sarasota—LifeGem—you can have cremated remains turned into a diamond.
Okay, I just don’t see what is the supposed environmental benefit of this.
For one thing, there’s this irrational fear of carbon dioxide. Our bodies contain a lot of carbon; no matter how the disposal takes place, the carbon still exists, and is used by other living organisms that incorporate it into their bodies.
For another, dissolving the body in lye and then pouring it down the sewers seems very polluting. In a research laboratory, if I were to pour lye down the sink, I would face legal repercussions. It has to be neutralized with acid, carefully, since acid/base reactions can be quite vigorous.
thats sick......but funny.
The government put in too many regulations on how to dispose of a human body....had a friend that said, just drop me in my septic tank, nope, regulations against it...:O)
Instead of using that contrivance, I think it would be best to do what natural history museums to to clean an animal cadaver, leaving just clean, dry bones.
By using one type of insect when the human cadaver still has a lot of moisture, then another, when it is somewhat dried out, these insects will get into every nook and cranny and in the course of a week or two in a warm container, will do the same to human remains.
If the use of insects disgusts you, rest assured that insects also get cadavers that are buried, and they are much more loathsome species.
The advantages to doing things this way are first, it is very environmentally sound. It doesn’t need large tracts of land put off limits for a century or more, and the possibility of groundwater contamination. It doesn’t consume a lot of fuel as does cremation. Artificial body parts are recovered, as are any teeth with mercury amalgam fillings.
As far as the bones go, once cleaned, they can be sterilized with ordinary bleach. When dry, ground up and mixed with the dead insects for sanitary burial. Or the bones can be incinerated with a fraction of the fuel needed, the ash put in an urn to about the same volume such ash currently occupies.
I can’t to see them go. They are sickos.
I'm going to change my will to request cremation in a coal fired oven, with whale oil for the accelerant, an urn made of wood illegally harvested from a rain forest, and have my ashes dumped into the ventilation system at the nearest IRS office.
I was doing ok until I got the the part about dumping down the sewer.
Undertaker: Yea. Now there’s three things we can do with your mum. We can bury her, burn her, or dump her.
Man: Dump her?
Undertaker: Dump her in the Thames.
Man: What?
Undertaker: Oh, did you like her?
Man: Yes!
Undertaker: Oh well, we won’t dump her, then. Well, what do you think: burn her, or bury her?
Man: Um, well, um, which would you recommend?
Undertaker: Well they’re both nasty. If we burn her, she gets stuffed in the flames, crackle, crackle, crackle, which is a bit of a shock if she’s not quite dead. But quick. And then you get a box of ashes, which you can pretend are hers.
Nope, nothing in there about being chemically rendered to glop.
Besides, no grave, no headstone, no records (must have been a computer error), and eventually people have no idea of who they are culturally, no roots, no history, just another drone.
They did a test run on Joe Biden’s brain.
The old standbys, like a 55 gallon drum full of the squealer and cement, in the river, a chest freezer, in a storage unit, under a vacant house, a shallow grave in a forest preserve. A good one is lucking out at a cemetery, and finding a grave that was left open overnight, so that Rocco would only have to dig down an extra couple of feet to hide the evidence. Who keeps digging after they find a coffin?
I'll put in a memo to the Capo, see if we can use the new technology...
The Dahmer Method.
No kidding, i’d hate to be the poor bastard who has to clean the tank out between dissolvings.
How would you like to be the plumber who gets the call to unclog that drain?
Vat full of lye will dissolve just about anything organic.
Cripes. toss in a couple pounds of bacon grease and turn em into soap!!
Cornell does it at their large animal clinic, horses, cows, whatever, down the drain they go...
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