New body 'liquefaction' unit unveiled in Florida funeral home

[TalkingDog]

GHAAAAAA!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14114555

The system works by submerging the body in a solution of water and potassium hydroxide which is pressurised to 10 atmospheres and heated to 180C for between two-and-a-half and three hours.

Body tissue is dissolved and the liquid poured into the municipal water system. Mr Sullivan, a biochemist by training, says tests have proven the effluent is sterile and contains no DNA, and poses no environmental risk.

The bones are then removed from the unit and processed in a "cremulator", the same machine that is used to crush bone fragments following cremation into ash. Metals including mercury and artificial joints and implants are safely recovered.

[sakabatou]

1. Soylent Green water is made of PEOPLE!

[polly7]

2. Tough to think about, but the reasoning for it seems sound. nt.

[DJ13]

3. Tastes like Grandma!

[Fumesucker]

7. ...

:spank:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Ikonoklast]

37. Grandma has Electrolytes!

Better Than Brawndo!

[tularetom]

4. The municipal WATER system?

I hope to christ they mean the municipal wastewater system.

Fist of all the waste would have to be pressurized to at least 40 or 50 psi before it could be pumped into a municipal water system. Secondly there are pretty stringent rules about backflow prevention from any establishment dealing with human tissue. organs or waste.

I know it's popular to scoff at government regulation but do you really want to be drinking water that has been injected with liquified human remains?

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Somebody goofed and they mean wastewater

mostly reporters do not realize there is a difference.

[Lars39]

5. Jeebuz!

First time I've felt compelled to rec, post and hide a thread all at once. :wow: :scared:

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Alas we need to find ways to do that

as much as it might personally gall us...

And if you do not have any religious reasons to want to keep the vessel intact. I'd have no issue...

[FLPanhandle]

9. Wouldn't lowering the body into a tank of crabs be more ecologically friendly?

At least there would be no chemicals and energy for heating it all.

[Courtesy Flush]

10. But then they'd be selling the crabs on the local market

You know they would.

[FLPanhandle]

11. This is Florida...

Of course they would. Probably even advertise them.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

15. MMMMM, liquified human remains fed crabs!

[Ian David]

13. Crabs or hagfish. n/t

[undeterred]

12. YUCK.

:puke:

[theophilus]

14. Remember, Tuesday is Soylent Green day! n/t

[jtuck004]

16. Puts a whole new spin on "I'll never leave you"... n/t

[WillyT]

17. What... No Urn ???

:yoiks:

[Le Taz Hot]

35. Please tell me you made this up.

:wow:

[Auntie Bush]

18. What a disgusting idea. Why not just cremate them and give the ashes back to the loved ones?

Who want them in their water system? Why go through this disgusting process?

[Lars39]

19. There's gotta be an unseen profit in there somewhere for somebody....

I'm thinking it's the easier(?) ability to collect the implants, gold fillings and such?

on edit: and if that's the case....frickin' nazis. :grr:

[Harmony Blue]

20. Yes there is money to be made

Gold, Titanium, etc. How low can people go to make a buck? :(

[Lars39]

23. I'm beginning to think our ancestors didn't mate with neanderthals,

but with ferengi. :(

[csziggy]

27. Cremation uses a lot of energy and releases toxins in the air

So people are looking for alternatives. "Traditional" embalming, pumping the body full of chemicals, really only dates to the Civil War and is very environmentally unfriendly. And you either have to buy a plot of land or a crypt to store the preserved body.

Some people are trying "green" cemeteries with no embalming, no caskets and simple, discreet interment with little or no marking of the location, but so far they are expensive and have not met with a lot of acceptance.

Personally, I'd opt for sky burial but my neighbors would probably object to the influx of vultures and an exposed, decaying body waiting to be consumed by them.

[customerserviceguy]

29. This article

hasn't moved me off the cremation option.

[DemoTex]

21. Throw Mama from the train?

Hell, no! Throw her down the drain!


Owen, you're grounded!

[titaniumsalute]

22. Bobby Mays here with the Cremulator 2000...

[SmileyRose]

24. Who forgot to flush?

Logically, it's no different than eons of leftovers of zillions dead people washing off into the water supply, or from all the animals of the earth etc..... but it still gives me the willies.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

25. Ugh. Just put me in a pine box and bury me in the forest.

and I will feed the earth as it has fed me.

[Auntie Bush]

36. I'm all for that, but isn't it illegial to bury one on private or their own property?

[TwilightGardener]

26. Not really different from the guy who drowned upriver from our reservoir in July--

he had been in the water for weeks, decomposing, about 4 or 5 miles from where I live. I really hope our water treatment plant was doing its job...

[Fuddnik]

28. Any recipes?

[woo me with science]

33. Starts any soup with a nice, meaty-flavored base. nt

[lonestarnot]

30. Oh goodie. In AZ we breath hohokams, and now we can drink our cousins. Fucking A.

Solent green, got nutt'n on us. So I can be inside a Brita filter someday. whoohoo.

[Frustratedlady]

31. I could see this being used by gangs, dictators, mercenaries, etc.

Good bye to mass graves...chunks of cement tied to a corpse in the bottom of the river, etc.

This process makes me ill.

[Javaman]

32. Mmm Soylent Green Shake...

Why do I keep getting the old Saturday Night Live Dan Ackroyd fake commercial of "the Bass-O-Matic", running through my head?

[sfpcjock]

34. We don't even have a garbage disposal!

But, human soup?

It sounds minimally efficient from the point of view of heavy metals, etc.

[hunter]

38. Can we skim the oil off the top first?

We could mix it with the tar sand oil and thank the dead every time we filled up the Humvee.

Here grandma, have some more bacon and high fructose corn syrup...