'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

[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.

[I-ambush]

Heineken was a prophet! With this technique, we could Grok our departed elders.

[READINABLUESTATE]

I had a family member who was a ward of the state.
When she passed, this is how they did it.

[FlyingEagle]

Aka the Sinaloa mortician method.

Not new.

[TalBlack]

A Jewish cemetery (if you’re Jewish).

[Flatus I. Maximus]

There is only a narrow difference between this and conventional cremation. Both ways, the bones and teeth survive the process, so they can be ground to dust and returned to the family in an urn, for subsequent scattering or whatever.

I’ve been at scatterings where the grinding was incomplete and the cremains contained recognizable bone fragments; i.e., pieces of ribs, teeth, and small finger bones. Those were horror stories for the mourners.

Metal parts, i.e., hip implants, etc., don’t melt. They get separated out from the ashes with magnets and recycled. Things like pacemakers must be removed before cremation, or else they’ll explode in the crematorium, inside the body.

What’s really ugly is what happens to silicone breast implants during cremation. They melt.

So whether by fire or water, cremation is an icky business.

[Poison Pill]

Seems a little off putting. But less so than pumping the body full of formaldehyde before putting it in a $10,000 casket that then goes in a concrete burial liner.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

My younger sister requested that her ashes be scattered at a favorite spot on the Oregon coast. There was a strong wind blowing off the ocean on the day of the memorial. Fortunately some guys were paragliding off the bluff nearby, going out over the water and then landing back on the beach. We got one of them to drop the ashes over the shore, which worked out really well. That guy was great.

[omni-scientist]

You just had to post this over the lunch hour, didn’t you.

[grobdriver]

Well, that’s just sick.

[GenXPolymath]

“Just a gut opinion, it feels like desecrating a body to me.”

It’s literally liquid cremation. You could take the ashes of cremation and dissolve them in water too. When people spread ashes the first rain they will dissolve as well or if you spread them at sea or in a river. I understand there are different levels of cremation I am talking the full 1500C version where there is nothing left but ash not cremains from the lower temp cheaper versions.

You might like the become a tree funeral then.

https://earthfuneral.com/resources/tree-pod-burial-explained

Rotting in a box doesn’t appeal to everyone. It’s only a matter of time before the vault gives way and collapses then water will eventually enter the casket no matter how well sealed. Then worm dirt, over geological time you will either be buried under a rising ocean and sediments or uplifted and eroded to the surface and washed away. No land surface is permanent.

I specificity want to be buried at sea in a deep basin that is under active deposition thus ensuring the fossilization of my body into the geological record. Maybe some nonhuman geologist far far in the future will see my bones and be like hey we found another of those primitive ape creatures the ones that gave birth to our silicon based life millions of years ago.

[GenXPolymath]

Become a tree it’s the closest thing to pine box which most states will not allow.

https://earthfuneral.com/resources/tree-pod-burial-explained

[alternatives?]

Seems like they should filter it and put the remains in an urn.

[Deo volente]

I might, as a Catholic, consider cremation as the way to go, but I would still plan on my remains to be placed in a niche in a Catholic cemetery with the proper burial rite.
The Church permits it and reverence for the body is maintained. Christ can restore any human body on the last day and unite it with the soul.
But this emptying into the sewer strikes me as degrading and an insult to the Creator.

[Bigg Red]

It certainly is desecration.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Over 50 replies and no link to Monty Python’s undertaker sketch? Well, I’m not going to be the one.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

I have seen commercials about this here. While they didn’t go into any detail, I figured it was something like this. It made me so queasy.

[ridesthemiles]

THIS IS CONTAMINATION OF WATER....PLAIN & SIMPLE

[HonorInPa]

Let’s eat Grandma or Let’s eat, Grandma?

[Salman]

Finally! The technological basis for doing an environmentally friendly holocaust, without all those those smoky chimneys.

[Georgia Girl 2]

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