22-05-2017, 11:42 AM
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Dissolving the Dead
Read a fascinating but somewhat grisly article on a BBC website last night about an alternative to burial and cremation where the body is dissolved in a mixture of chemicals instead.The body is placed in a large pressurised container and sealed then at the press of a button, a collection of chemicals mixed with water is introduced and the chamber heated up. Because the chamber is pressurised, the boiling point of the water is increased so as to make the process quicker. Apparently, it's the same process that a body goes through when it's decomposing only accelerated. When the process is over, the skeletal remains are washed thoroughly and the resultant liquids can safely be disposed in a normal sewer. The bones are put into a grinder like you find at crematoriums and ground to a fine white powder not unlike flour to look at.
If you're as morbid as me and find such things fascinating, you can read for yourselves here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/...lving_the_dead
22-05-2017, 12:01 PM
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Re: Dissolving the Dead
Originally Posted by Judd
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Read a fascinating but somewhat grisly article on a BBC website last night about an alternative to burial and cremation where the body is dissolved in a mixture of chemicals instead.The body is placed in a large pressurised container and sealed then at the press of a button, a collection of chemicals mixed with water is introduced and the chamber heated up. Because the chamber is pressurised, the boiling point of the water is increased so as to make the process quicker. Apparently, it's the same process that a body goes through when it's decomposing only accelerated. When the process is over, the skeletal remains are washed thoroughly and the resultant liquids can safely be disposed in a normal sewer. The bones are put into a grinder like you find at crematoriums and ground to a fine white powder not unlike flour to look at.
If you're as morbid as me and find such things fascinating, you can read for yourselves here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/...lving_the_dead
22-05-2017, 12:10 PM
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Re: Dissolving the Dead
Cor, imagine if you weren't properly dead! I think l will also give the read a miss!It was bad enough and l still can't get it out of my mind how the woman at the funeral directors, reached up on a shelf full of jars and presented me with my mother, like she was a jar of sweets at a sweet shop!
22-05-2017, 12:31 PM
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Re: Dissolving the Dead
Originally Posted by Bayardicus
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I`m all ears....! Could well be the alternative which i`ve been looking for. The entire process must be a lot cheaper than your normal, run of the mill burial..And, certainly far less polluting than a cremation...Worth looking further into...
For yourself? Or someone you don't like.
You say about less polluting, but what would be a safe way of disposing of many vats of body-melting chemicals safely?
22-05-2017, 12:35 PM
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Re: Dissolving the Dead
Originally Posted by Mups
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For yourself? Or someone you don't like. You say about less polluting, but what would be a safe way of disposing of many vats of body-melting chemicals safely?
If you read the article it's `greener` than both burial and cremation as the chemicals involved are organic and there's no traces of human DNA left whatsoever.
Go on.... read it.... you know you want to.
22-05-2017, 12:39 PM
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Re: Dissolving the Dead
Originally Posted by Artangel
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Cor, imagine if you weren't properly dead! I think l will also give the read a miss! It was bad enough and l still can't get it out of my mind how the woman at the funeral directors, reached up on a shelf full of jars and presented me with my mother, like she was a jar of sweets at a sweet shop!
22-05-2017, 12:40 PM
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Re: Dissolving the Dead
Originally Posted by Judd
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Read a fascinating but somewhat grisly article on a BBC website last night about an alternative to burial and cremation where the body is dissolved in a mixture of chemicals instead.The body is placed in a large pressurised container and sealed then at the press of a button, a collection of chemicals mixed with water is introduced and the chamber heated up. Because the chamber is pressurised, the boiling point of the water is increased so as to make the process quicker. Apparently, it's the same process that a body goes through when it's decomposing only accelerated. When the process is over, the skeletal remains are washed thoroughly and the resultant liquids can safely be disposed in a normal sewer. The bones are put into a grinder like you find at crematoriums and ground to a fine white powder not unlike flour to look at.
If you're as morbid as me and find such things fascinating, you can read for yourselves here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/...lving_the_dead
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