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Wow ... ! This is too good for words. 'South Park' writers couldn't have come up with a more bizarre 'truth-is-stranger-than-fiction' storyline ... Y' die, and then y' get flushed. So what's the difference between life and death then ... ?
Mama, tell me the story about the rabbit again ... I feel flush ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1292778/Belgium-considers-proposals-dissolve-bodies-flush-sewage-systems.html?ITO=1490 Belgium's plan to wash its dead down the drain: Bodies would be dissolved in caustic solution... and flushed into the sewer By ALLAN HALL | Last updated at 12:01 AM on 8th July 2010 It could hardly be said to be the most dignified of send-offs. Undertakers in Belgium plan to eschew traditional burials and cremations and start dissolving corpses instead. The move is intended to tackle a lack of burial space and environmental concerns as 573lbs of carbon dioxide are released by each cremated corpse. Under the process, known as resomation, bodies are treated in a steel chamber with potassium hydroxide at high pressure and a temperature of 180c (350f). The raised pressure and temperature means the body reaches a similar end point as in standard cremation — just bones left to be crushed up — in two to three hours. Six states in America have passed legislation to allow resomation and the Scottish company behind the technology says it is in talks to allow the process in the UK. Although the ashes can be recycled in waste systems, the residue from the process can also be put in urns and handed over to relatives of the dead like normal ashes from crematorium farewells. Resomation Ltd was formed in east Glasgow in 2007 and has been in talks with the UK government about using the technology in Britain. The company says on its website: 'The process needs to be approved in each country and/or state before resomation can take place. 'In the UK discussions have already been held with the relevant Ministers and departments within Whitehall in order to progress the use of resomation in the UK. Elsewhere across the globe this is a work in progress.' Sandy Sullivan, founder of The Resomation Company said: 'Resomation offers a new, innovative approach which uses less energy and emits significantly less greenhouse gasses than cremation. 'I am getting a lot of requests from families and we hope it will become legal in Scotland within the year. 'Burial space is running out and I have had lots of people contact me whose loved ones have chosen resomation. 'It's a highly sensitive subject but I think the public are ready for it.' The name ‘Resomation’ comes from the Greek word ‘Resoma’ meaning rebirth of the human body. |
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Wow ... ! This is too good for words. 'South Park' writers couldn't have come up with a more bizarre 'truth-is-stranger-than-fiction' storyline ... Y' die, and then y' get flushed. So what's the difference between life and death then ... ? Mama, tell me the story about the rabbit again ... I feel flush ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1292778/Belgium-considers-proposals-dissolve-bodies-flush-sewage-systems.html?ITO=1490 Belgium's plan to wash its dead down the drain: Bodies would be dissolved in caustic solution... and flushed into the sewer By ALLAN HALL | Last updated at 12:01 AM on 8th July 2010 It could hardly be said to be the most dignified of send-offs. Undertakers in Belgium plan to eschew traditional burials and cremations and start dissolving corpses instead. The move is intended to tackle a lack of burial space and environmental concerns as 573lbs of carbon dioxide are released by each cremated corpse. Under the process, known as resomation, bodies are treated in a steel chamber with potassium hydroxide at high pressure and a temperature of 180c (350f). The raised pressure and temperature means the body reaches a similar end point as in standard cremation — just bones left to be crushed up — in two to three hours. Six states in America have passed legislation to allow resomation and the Scottish company behind the technology says it is in talks to allow the process in the UK. Although the ashes can be recycled in waste systems, the residue from the process can also be put in urns and handed over to relatives of the dead like normal ashes from crematorium farewells. Resomation Ltd was formed in east Glasgow in 2007 and has been in talks with the UK government about using the technology in Britain. The company says on its website: 'The process needs to be approved in each country and/or state before resomation can take place. 'In the UK discussions have already been held with the relevant Ministers and departments within Whitehall in order to progress the use of resomation in the UK. Elsewhere across the globe this is a work in progress.' Sandy Sullivan, founder of The Resomation Company said: 'Resomation offers a new, innovative approach which uses less energy and emits significantly less greenhouse gasses than cremation. 'I am getting a lot of requests from families and we hope it will become legal in Scotland within the year. 'Burial space is running out and I have had lots of people contact me whose loved ones have chosen resomation. 'It's a highly sensitive subject but I think the public are ready for it.' The name ‘Resomation’ comes from the Greek word ‘Resoma’ meaning rebirth of the human body. Doesn't really sound any different from cremation with the exception of affects on the enviroment to me.......you can still have it in an urn for the family.... |
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Do you know if the remains will be soylent green after the process?
 
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Everything we do with corpses is weird. Injecting preservatives into their bodies? Dressing them up? I think that cremation is a bit odd; this is a lot like cremation, just using chemicals instead of very high temps.
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Aren't there special insects that will eat the flesh off a corpse's bones really fast? I wonder if one day that will be the 'new thing' - everybody will have their loved ones devoured by bugs.
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Aren't there special insects that will eat the flesh off a corpse's bones really fast? I wonder if one day that will be the 'new thing' - everybody will have their loved ones devoured by bugs. Set a corpse out in the heat here and in 2 days time the buzzards and bugs will have 'em picked clean. |
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Aren't there special insects that will eat the flesh off a corpse's bones really fast? I wonder if one day that will be the 'new thing' - everybody will have their loved ones devoured by bugs. then they can put the bug poop in an urn... |
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Aren't there special insects that will eat the flesh off a corpse's bones really fast? I wonder if one day that will be the 'new thing' - everybody will have their loved ones devoured by bugs. I'd rather be planted under a tree. I like trees. or Stuffed and mounted naked in a glass case with a sign that says welcome to my store. either way... |
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Aren't there special insects that will eat the flesh off a corpse's bones really fast? I wonder if one day that will be the 'new thing' - everybody will have their loved ones devoured by bugs. I'd rather be planted under a tree. I like trees. or Stuffed and mounted naked in a glass case with a sign that says welcome to my store. either way... Would you want that, mounting or mounted and, with whom? 
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Aren't there special insects that will eat the flesh off a corpse's bones really fast? I wonder if one day that will be the 'new thing' - everybody will have their loved ones devoured by bugs. I'd rather be planted under a tree. I like trees. or Stuffed and mounted naked in a glass case with a sign that says welcome to my store. either way... Would you want that, mounting or mounted and, with whom?
lol...you're in a weird mood. I like that in a person. |
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Stuffing is usually done shortly after mounting.
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