Dissolving the dead (A radical alternative to burial and cremation)

BBC News ^ | May 22, 2017 | William Kremer - BBC World Hacks

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***for fear of upsetting the community.***

It is not much different than spreading quicklime on the body. The ancient coffins made of limestone did virtually the same and were called “flesh eaters” or Sarcophagus.

[dfwgator]

"I THINK WE'VE GOT AN EATER!"

[bar sin·is·ter]

Ashes to ashes... hydrolysis to purrel...

TIMMY: Mommy, where’s Grandma?
MOTHER: In the soap dish next to the toothbrush...

[Magnatron]

[Magnatron]

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Reminds me of an old Cowboy cartoon from 60 years ago.
A cowboy is washing his hands and crying. He says...

“Since we sold those horses to the soap factory I just know I am washing with Old Blaze!”

[SoothingDave]

Lots of energy spent to burn one body. Enough to heat a house for a week in the winter.

[JimRed]

When I’m dead, I’m dead. Who cares if they dump me in a landfill, cremate me, stick me in a box and bury me, dissolve me or make a decorative display mummy of me?

I’ll still be reassembled on The Last Day, and will have to explain my sinful self to my maker.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

groan

[NorthMountain]

Just don’t do it in your upstairs bathtub

Of course not. You do it in your basement laboratory, hidden under the commercial laundry service.

[dfwgator]

[Billthedrill]

I like the idea, actually. I mean, coming back as a zombie is cool but sort of messy, dropping rotting body parts all over the place and what do they give you for lines? "BRAINS!" Come on... No, I want to come back as an evil skeleton who intends to take over the world. Fear the Lost Skeleton.

[bar sin·is·ter]

What about taxidermy?

[Chode]

yup, gotta polish that sword