Boil That Corpse!
The eco-friendly way to dispose of loved ones
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/science/article_21296051.shtml
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Talk about killing two birds with one stone. With grave space at a premium and the planet allegedly undergoing climate change, it's apparently time to find a more eco-friendly way to dispose of corpses. The process, called resomation, allows people to dispose of loved ones in a more ecologically sound way. From the Post Chronicle:
A British company says it has an eco-friendly alternative to cremation: boiling bodies into dust. In the process, called resomation, the body is encased in a silk coffin and submerged in water mixed with potassium hydroxide. It is then heated to 302 degrees Fahrenheit, which rapidly turns it into a white dust, The Mail on Sunday reported.
The process is more eco-friendly than cremation, during which a body is heated to 2,192 degrees Fahrenheit, letting off harmful fumes such as mercury, according to Resomation, the firm selling the boiling process. Instead, the company says, it is essentially a much faster version of natural decomposition. Resomation also is affordable, costing about $600, the same as a cremation, the company said.
British authorities, who are encouraging alternatives to traditional burials for space reasons, have said they will consider any proposals. About a thousand bodies in the United States have already been processed with resomation.
Yikes and zoiks. I thought this would be a double-eyebrow-raiser and I was right. Boil your loved ones to dust.
A British company says it has an eco-friendly alternative to cremation: boiling bodies into dust. In the process, called resomation, the body is encased in a silk coffin and submerged in water mixed with potassium hydroxide. It is then heated to 302 degrees Fahrenheit, which rapidly turns it into a white dust, The Mail on Sunday reported.
The process is more eco-friendly than cremation, during which a body is heated to 2,192 degrees Fahrenheit, letting off harmful fumes such as mercury, according to Resomation, the firm selling the boiling process. Instead, the company says, it is essentially a much faster version of natural decomposition. Resomation also is affordable, costing about $600, the same as a cremation, the company said.
British authorities, who are encouraging alternatives to traditional burials for space reasons, have said they will consider any proposals. About a thousand bodies in the United States have already been processed with resomation.
Yikes and zoiks. I thought this would be a double-eyebrow-raiser and I was right. Boil your loved ones to dust.
