Pour your Loved ones down the drain(new body disposal process)

[bluesjunior]

I read an article in this mornings newspaper about some company who are trying to get a UK licence to start up an alternative to cremation and burial after getting permission and trying it out in Florida in the USA. I couldn't find the Daily Mirror link that I read but came across the process in this US newspaper/magazine in the link below. Now I am not averse to new processes neither am I prudish but in my opinion I just can't see this process taking off, in fact I kind of find it distasteful. Check out the link below and see what you think!!.
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2011/08/alkaline_hydroloysis_cremation_anderson_mcqueen_st _petersburg.php

[SteveO]

That would give Grandpa the opportunity to clog the toilet one last time on his way out...

[josh.rigaud]

This is just stupid

[Flyin' Brian]

"The skeleton is then ground up and delivered to the family just like the ashes from a traditional cremation."

Just think of the possibilities.

"I love the sound of the maracas on that track."

"Oh thanks. That's weird Uncle Fred".

http://jesters.com/acatalog/A_kpuc106.jpg

[chrisgraff]

More importantly, you are left with a skeleton - clean & intact.

Why keep Grandpa on the mantle when he can sit in his favorite rocking chair? Sit at the table for Sunday supper? Hold your coats/hats when company comes over?

Just THINK of the possibilities! :banana

[hellbender]

More importantly, you are left with a skeleton - clean & intact.

Why keep Grandpa on the mantle when he can sit in his favorite rocking chair? Sit at the table for Sunday supper? Hold your coats/hats when company comes over?

Just THINK of the possibilities! :banana

Unique guitar stand?

[coreybox]

in fact I kind of find it distasteful.

Cremation and this new process are equals in my mind regarding their level of invasiveness/desecration/etc. I'm perfectly OK with either.

[Whiskeyrebel]

This is just stupid
Stupider than this:

pumping a corpse full of toxic chemicals,

spackling its face with greasepaint,

sealing it in a breathtakingly expensive piece of furniture,

dumping the whole works in a hole in the ground,

and then barring the land around that hole from all productive use?

[Jetrow]

Good ol' Dad was always big on Halloween!

[tjmicsak]

"Hey Abner, I wonder what sort of skeletons those new neighbors have in their closet"

[Ed Reed]

alas poor yorick i knew him well

[90wreck]

Stupider than this:

pumping a corpse full of toxic chemicals,

spackling its face with greasepaint,

sealing it in a breathtakingly expensive piece of furniture,

dumping the whole works in a hole in the ground,

and then barring the land around that hole from all productive use?
interesting thought.
:hide

[jaycee]

Eh...i don't really care what method is used for me. I won't know it. Boil my innards down to some kind of goo and use me for waterproofing. Doesn't matter. Hmm..i wonder if i could be made into a finish like nitro. Instead of an urn i can have a spray bottle with my name engraved. I wonder how many guitars i could finish.

[schmidlin]

That would give Grandpa the opportunity to clog the toilet one last time on his way out...
And again, ol' #2 post for the win!

[EADGBE]

I don't think it's sanitary. And I think cremation causes air pollution. It probably also contributes to climate change. I think burial at sea would be superior to either method. The deceased could be wrapped in a biodegradable burial shroud and then buried at sea about ninety miles off the coast. No land space would be taken up. And there would be no burning involved. Cremation and scattering ashes just seems real creepy to me. Burial at sea just seems much cleaner. It probably could be cheaper too.

[Brett's Les Paul]

I grew up in a funeral home and both my parents are funeral directors and I was supposed to be (at least according to them). The embalming process is certainly environmentally unfriendly and the funeral and casket are hugely expensive. Cremation is not very nice to the environment either. Green burial would be my choice. Return to the earth without contaminating it with artificial chemicals. I don't know about the burial at sea thing. Friend of mine had a cardiac and fell off into the bay a few years back. He was at a house on Little Gasparilla and nobody checked for a day or two. When they found him it wasn't nice.

[EADGBE]

Green burial would be my choice. Return to the earth without contaminating it with artificial chemicals.
That would be my first choice too. It just seems like it's getting very expensive. And people say we're running out of room.

[Structo]

Soylent Green!

[direwolf]

A really deep mass grave would work for me.

[Whiskeyrebel]

There's always the thermal depolymerization option. It's a sped-up industrial version of the geological process that turns organic matter into crude oil. Instead of your will saying where you want your ashes scattered, you could have yourself poured into the tank of your beloved car or motorbike for one last run.

[bbrunskill]

I think its a bit gross, but no worse than shoving your dear old mum in to a furnace to be burned to a crisp and then grabbing handfuls of the ashes and sprinkling them around at the local park.

[Steve73]

I think I'll stick with my first choice. Dumped out of a speeding van painted like the A-Team van into heavy traffic and devoured as road kill by scavengers.

[Polynitro]

I like the cheap Mafia version of feeding Grandpa to the pigs.

I wanna be dipped in a vat of Nitro and then put in orbit around a black hole.

[spyeman]

Gatorade Green.........is people!!! Gatorade Green.........is people!!!!!

[GuitarKidd]

There is no need for preservation or cremation. As stated a perfectly green burial is all that is needed. Then after decay, our loved one can gather our bones, and put them in the little boxes that the Jews used, the Osuaries... I think so that the same burial space can be reused.

[enharmonic]

I want to be launched into space like Spock