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'Boil in a bag' funerals come to Britain: Scotland is the first part of the UK to introduce alternative technique that sees bodies dissolved and flushed down the drain
dailymailuk ^ | William Hunter

Posted on 03/04/2026 9:54:43 AM PST by BenLurkin

During a boil in the bag funeral, the body is wrapped in a biodegradable shroud, often made of silk or wool, and placed in a pressurised steel chamber.

The tank is then filled with a liquid made up of 95 per cent water and five per cent of an alkaline chemical such as potassium hydroxide.

The body is heated to 150°C (302°F) under pressure, which ensures that it does not actually 'boil'.

Over three to four hours, this replicates the natural processes of decomposition that would normally take decades to occur inside a coffin.

Finally, the resulting liquid is cooled, treated, and poured into the drains, where it is processed alongside normal wastewater.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
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To: TangoLimaSierra

LOL


21 posted on 03/04/2026 10:08:01 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: PGR88

I agree, it sends a message to the living that the human body is nothing special and warrants no merit. God is mocked as his ultimate creation is mistreated and this teaches others we ae nothing to be respected, just another piece of nature with no inherent value.


22 posted on 03/04/2026 10:08:23 AM PST by Skwor
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To: Skwor

You get worms, bugs, bacteria, fungi, mold, etc. eating the body in the grave. Those creatures defecate and urinate on the body. Is it really any different?


23 posted on 03/04/2026 10:08:58 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: BenLurkin

Remember you are from dust and to solution and precipitant you shall end up.


24 posted on 03/04/2026 10:09:18 AM PST by posterchild
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To: BenLurkin

“Body? What body? No body, no crime!”


25 posted on 03/04/2026 10:09:21 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Skwor

You can always have a weekend at Bernie’s set up. Sure you’re family would love that.


26 posted on 03/04/2026 10:10:40 AM PST by MotorCityBuck (Keep the Change You Filthy Animal !)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yes, because that is nature, not some manmade process for the purpose of expediency and convenance.

What you are saying is similar to the logic that a terminal ill person will die soon anyway, so just kill him now, that is not God’s plan at work.


27 posted on 03/04/2026 10:11:16 AM PST by Skwor
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To: BenLurkin

This is satanic and no way to treat one of God’s creatures.


28 posted on 03/04/2026 10:11:18 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: BenLurkin

But is it really “normal wastewater”???


29 posted on 03/04/2026 10:11:30 AM PST by Wuli ( )
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To: BenLurkin

How is this preferable to cremation?


30 posted on 03/04/2026 10:12:02 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: BenLurkin
Well, all those bodies ARE taking up a lot of room...


31 posted on 03/04/2026 10:13:35 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: BenLurkin

Why don’t they ferment it and pass it around the pub during the deceased’s “celebration of life”?


32 posted on 03/04/2026 10:13:42 AM PST by fruser1
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
I'm partial to sprinkling the ashes over the sea.


33 posted on 03/04/2026 10:13:43 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait.)
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To: bakeneko

Anybody know where you can be buried in a simple pine box with no embalming or other postmortem frills?

yes, or you could go for plain cardboard even.

there are several places that do that in the US just search for “natural burials”


34 posted on 03/04/2026 10:14:13 AM PST by algore ( )
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To: BenLurkin

I suppose they think this is progress, because someone told them to think so.


35 posted on 03/04/2026 10:14:24 AM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: Larry Lucido

At least your ashes become a nutrient to the soil.


36 posted on 03/04/2026 10:17:24 AM PST by kaktuskid
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To: Nervous Tick

Sous Vide humans?


37 posted on 03/04/2026 10:18:02 AM PST by kaktuskid
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To: Jane Long

SOLENT GREEN?


38 posted on 03/04/2026 10:21:50 AM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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To: Larry Lucido

> I’m partial to sprinkling the ashes over the sea.

I’ve been on the downwind side of that. Ten years later, it’s finally funny.


39 posted on 03/04/2026 10:22:24 AM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (It's time to stop pretending you can get along with liberals. They hate you and want to kill you. )
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To: cpdiii

Eventually.

😱


40 posted on 03/04/2026 10:25:20 AM PST by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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