Swedes told to bury 'freeze-dried' dead
Swedes told to bury 'freeze-dried' dead
The Swedish authorities have demanded that two bodies frozen for over a decade while awaiting a controversial environmentally-friendly burial method should be put to rest without further delay.
The bodies have been kept in storage while a Swedish biologist, who once got an award from the king but has since been dubbed a fraud, developed her method of "freeze drying' corpses.
That method has not yet been completed and the frozen bodies will probably not be stored much longer in wait for the technology, if the Swedish Tax Agency has its way. The agency ensures compliance with the Swedish burial law stipulating that a body should be buried within a month of death.
The agency initially granted a delay in accordance with the deceaseds' wishes to be buried according to the controversial burial method called "promession", but this exception ran out in 2007.
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