Life No Dignity in Death
posted by May 9 at 16:39 PM
onWhen dogtags meet dogs:
The Pentagon is recommending changes in the handling of troops’ remains, after it was revealed that crematoriums contracted by the military are used for both human and animal cremations.
In other corpse-disposal news:
Now a new option is generating interest: dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain. The process is called alkaline hydrolysis and was developed in this country 16 years ago to get rid of animal carcasses. It uses lye, 300-degree heat and 60 pounds of pressure per square inch to destroy bodies in big stainless-steel cylinders that are similar to pressure cookers.
Happy weekend, everybody.
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Brownish, syrupy residue?
DIET COKE IS MADE OF PEOPLE!!!!!!!
@1: I've always said it tasted like death.
Granted, I didn't read the article, but there's nothing new about using lye to dispose of bodies.
If you read Mary Roach's book "Stiff" you'd know all about alkaline hydrolysis and other cool ways to dispose of remains. Cause even putting your corpse in a box is just a way to dispose of it. I want to become compost for a tree- think it would be cool to have a fruit tree as my tombstone.
I prefer to use peat bogs.
When I die, just buy me an "All Aboard America" pass and stick me on Amtrak. Someone will find me sooner or later, and do whatever they do with dead bodies.
I'm opting for cryogenics if I can afford it.
I'm going to be buried with my Darwin Award.
I'm going to dig up elenchos' Darwin Award during a thunderstorm using a metal shovel, while it rains.
we should all be immersed in plastic resin--in sliced pieces, of course--and made into mobiles which hang from the ceiling. over the baby's crib.
Or they could turn us into coral farms ...
So what's the problem? Supposing I outlive them, I want my ashes sprinkled over my cats graves.
I was planning on the compost-for-fruit-tree thing, but then I read about this process where your ashes are compressed and turned into a diamond.
"Your ring is beautiful."
"It's my granny amazonmidwife."
Seriously though, I'll be dead so it won't matter; the family will do what it needs to.
Why all this technology and chemicals?
GATOR FARM!
Whatever happened to dumping the body in the woods?
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