Posted on 05/18/2021 9:42:43 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Wisconsin senators approved a bill earlier this week allowing dead bodies to be dissolved in a chemical bath and disposed like sewage.
The bill, Senate Bill 228, authorizes a practice called alkaline hydrolysis, or “water cremation,” which liquifies the human body using a mixture of water, heat, and chemical agents, leaving only bones behind. The liquid is then dumped into the sewage system or boiled off, and bones can be crushed and deposited in an urn.
The Republican-led Senate passed the legislation without debate on Tuesday over the objection of the Catholic bishops of Wisconsin.
I would think that municipal sewage systems would have problems with dumping large quantities of high pH liquids as they would interfer with the bacterial process used to treat raw sewage. Aren’t the environmentalists having any concern about chemical dumping?
I have chosen to donate my body to a medical school rather than spend thousands on a traditional funeral.
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Absolutely nothing! More specifically thought, chemically dissolving a human body creates more air and water pollution than natural decomposition or even cremation.
Sounds more like rendering to me....
“So, how do you propose that we dispose of unclaimed human remains? A big mass grave? Cremation?”
All I know is, treating our dead with respect is a traditional idea that obviously is so yesterday, and it betrays our lack of respect for human life (the abortion industry, for example). I simply find it offensive as hell that when my Mom dies, her remains could be essentially flushed down the toilet and end up in the waste treatment plant. Dumping remains into sewage plants just seems to me like a slippery slope in the total disregard for human life. And the consequences of that affect all of civil society, which is disintegrating day by day.
You can also be cremated and your ashes compressed into diamonds. Wind up as a pair of cuff links.
I’ve heard about that procedure. It seems a bit creepy to me. If I was given such a pair of cufflinks, I would never wish to see, touch or wear them.
Many find the idea quite appealing.
Earrings for your girlfriend?
What about live bodies?
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