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Crematorium to keep mourners warm by burning bodies of loved ones
dailymail.co.uk ^
| 7 Jan 2008
| Staff
Posted on 01/07/2008 7:30:55 PM PST by forkinsocket
Heat created by burning the dead at crematoria could be used to keep mourners warm under plans to make funerals more environmentally-friendly.
Instead of letting the gases emitted by cremation escape into the atmosphere, councils want to use them to heat radiators or even generate electricity.
They admit some might find the idea of being kept warm by the remains of their loved-ones macabre.
But there are thought to be no religious objections, and ever-tighter controls on pollution mean such systems could become commonplace.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bravenewworld; crematorium; environmentalism; uk
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Taking environmentalism too far.
To: forkinsocket
Talk about jumping the shark!
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posted on
01/07/2008 7:32:34 PM PST
by
SIDENET
(Hubba Hubba...)
To: forkinsocket
In “A Brave New World” bodies were incinerated to recover the phosphorous and other minerals (now, THAT is recycling).
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posted on
01/07/2008 7:33:13 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: SIDENET
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posted on
01/07/2008 7:33:39 PM PST
by
SIDENET
(Hubba Hubba...)
To: forkinsocket
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posted on
01/07/2008 7:34:53 PM PST
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Elections have consequences.)
To: forkinsocket
“Soylent Heat IS PEOPLE!!!”
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posted on
01/07/2008 7:35:27 PM PST
by
VOA
To: forkinsocket
I have no words for this.....
To: forkinsocket
Oh great, we can have one last weenie roast with Uncle Bob
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posted on
01/07/2008 7:35:46 PM PST
by
digger48
To: forkinsocket
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posted on
01/07/2008 7:36:10 PM PST
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: Army Air Corps
This is definitely approaching “Brave New World” or Soylent Green territory, I’d say.
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posted on
01/07/2008 7:36:13 PM PST
by
RosieCotton
(A place for everything and everything in its place - 2008 Resolution #1)
To: forkinsocket
Macabre? It’s downright ghoulish.
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posted on
01/07/2008 7:36:34 PM PST
by
fhayek
To: VOA
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posted on
01/07/2008 7:37:04 PM PST
by
RosieCotton
(A place for everything and everything in its place - 2008 Resolution #1)
To: Frank_Discussion
beat me by twenty four seconds. ;^)
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posted on
01/07/2008 7:37:33 PM PST
by
fhayek
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
I agree. There's some sense in it; but...it's freaky.
My kids are supposed to have a tail-gate party (my wish!) when my ashes go up. This may interrupt that.
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posted on
01/07/2008 7:37:49 PM PST
by
bannie
(Jimminy Cricket is hollering, "Beware!!! clintons CHEAT!")
To: RosieCotton; yorkie; Borax Queen
This is definitely approaching Brave New World or Soylent Green territory, Id say. I agree. Disgusting.
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posted on
01/07/2008 7:38:20 PM PST
by
nicmarlo
To: forkinsocket
If I’m fat, my family should get some kind of bonus for the extra BTUs I kick out.
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posted on
01/07/2008 7:38:43 PM PST
by
SIDENET
(Hubba Hubba...)
To: forkinsocket
Wasn’t humanity aghast when the Nazis recycled dead humans?
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posted on
01/07/2008 7:38:50 PM PST
by
popdonnelly
(Get Reid. Salazar, and Harkin out of the Senate.)
To: forkinsocket
Ummm, no. Too soylent green...
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posted on
01/07/2008 7:39:14 PM PST
by
GOPJ
(Drug dealers are NOT "unlicensed pharmacists" - - Illegals are NOT "undocumented workers". Bailey)
To: forkinsocket
Yes, we must make funerals more environmentally friendly. Just bury them; the dusts of time will make them environmentally friendly.
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posted on
01/07/2008 7:39:24 PM PST
by
doc1019
(Rabbit and the Hare … Fred ‘08)
To: RosieCotton
I have known some uber enviros (I had classes with a few in undergrad). Many of them were obsessed with “ending the tyranny of man” and spoke warmly of the end of the human race. Tacky me, I once asked why they didn’t lead by example...
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posted on
01/07/2008 7:39:43 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
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