Resomation anyone?

I don't like the sound of this at all.

Body tissue is dissolved and the liquid poured into the municipal water system.

Dunno, not sure, it would be unlike the BBC to fall for a scam outside April 1.

I don't think that is even true.

Another urban Myth?

I really REALLY hope they meant sewage system and not water supply.. a badly written article is much easier to forgive..

Oh! You saw the News article about death by liquefaction and also freeze drying and powdering as opposed to burial or cremation.

Ghoulish!
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This is The Home Service reporting the latest news on the BBC.

It was reported that several inventors were developing environmentally clean ways of completing a loved ones journey in to the next world, using the technology of flash freezing and whole body chemical liquefaction ....
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The world population is currently estimated to be 6.94 billion by the United States Census Bureau as of July 1, 2011.

Current projections show a continued increase of population (but a steady decline in the population growth rate) with the population to reach between 7.5 and 10.5 billion by the year 2050.

After they liquify your flesh the bones are still there. Those they put into a microwave to dry them out and then crush them like a normal cremation, to you get an urn of powder to scatter. I think one place said they would give you a few pails of the dissolved loved one to use as fertilizer if you wanted.

I can imagine the Malibu types going for this big time.

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I think they have missed a trick with the water/alkaline resomation process to remove the flesh and viscera, then flushing it to the sewerage system (leaving the bones to be flash dried and powdered as Gary posted).

Some doctors practicing sucking out fat for health and cosmetic reasons on fat people (like me @ 72 stone) are treating the yellow liquid fat with alkaline solutions to esterify the gloop. This is then mixed at 50% with mineral diesel and used to drive diesel trucks.

Why not reduce the water side of the resomation and then flush the alkaline liquid flesh and viscera to an internal tank. With a bit of acidification to neutralise the pH, the resultant liquid could power a wide range of diesel vehicles from trans continental 44,000 lb HGVs to the hearses.
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In a world where is still difficult to recycle our common trash, I dont think humans are prepared to start recycling their loved ones, either in fertilizer or in to diesel.

Even for me it would be weird the idea that I can have someone's grandpa or grand mom inside the fuel tank of my car.

By the way, I'm excluding all religious believes including mine in the thinking process.

Just the idea of recycling someone in to diesel is kind of creepy...