Monday, May 22, 2017

dissolve the corpse

For decades, most people arranging a funeral have faced a simple choice - burial or cremation?

But in parts of the US and Canada a third option is now available - dissolving bodies in an alkaline solution.
It will arrive in the UK soon.

Its technical name is alkaline hydrolysis, but it is being marketed as “green cremation”.

2 comments:

  1. Death by Alkaline Hydrolysis. Sounds like a plot device in a murder mystery movie or crime scene investigation type TV show. Would have been a great opener on Colombo.

    Great dark humor implications: "Oh Shit! I spilled 'George' all over my Italian shoes! OK OK get some antifreeze no one will ever know."

    Give a choice being responsible for creating sludge to add to our over burdened sewerage systems, or further pollute the local waterways or the oceans, or smoke and ash, I prefer smoke and ash.

    I just skimmed the article as my computer was having problems with the clever web presentation very well. Can the sludge be recycled?

    I did a quick look up of the costs. The cost of Alkaline Hydrolysis will run upwrds of $2400 US, cremation services can be found as inexpensively as ~$800 US. (Taxes and Fees are extra. I think you get the departed one in a cardboard box in the low end cremation. Does one get a loved on in a 5 gallon nonreactive white plastic bucket in the low end hydrolization?)

    Either way, ceremonies costs are extra.

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