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New body 'liquefaction' unit unveiled in Florida funeral home
BBC News ^ | August 30, 2011 | Neil Bowdler

Posted on 08/31/2011 6:09:45 PM PDT by MamaDearest

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To: Nervous Tick
"How's the drain in that slop sink? "


61 posted on 08/31/2011 7:27:31 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Nervous Tick; humblegunner
You mean you’re just a joker?

Some people call him the space cowboy.
Some call him the gangster of love.
Some people call him Maurice....

62 posted on 08/31/2011 7:28:48 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear (No More RINOs!!! Laz for President!)
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To: MamaDearest

This is simply disgusting. I don’t want to brush my teeth using water contaminated with alkali and liquefied grandmothers. fyi—An alternative just down the road from St. Pete in Sarasota—LifeGem—you can have cremated remains turned into a diamond.


63 posted on 08/31/2011 7:30:41 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Drink good coffee. You can sleep when you are dead.)
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To: MamaDearest

Okay, I just don’t see what is the supposed environmental benefit of this.

For one thing, there’s this irrational fear of carbon dioxide. Our bodies contain a lot of carbon; no matter how the disposal takes place, the carbon still exists, and is used by other living organisms that incorporate it into their bodies.

For another, dissolving the body in lye and then pouring it down the sewers seems very polluting. In a research laboratory, if I were to pour lye down the sink, I would face legal repercussions. It has to be neutralized with acid, carefully, since acid/base reactions can be quite vigorous.


64 posted on 08/31/2011 7:32:37 PM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: Marty62

thats sick......but funny.


65 posted on 08/31/2011 7:35:30 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: MamaDearest
Flush upon expiration:


66 posted on 08/31/2011 7:40:39 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: Morpheus2009

The government put in too many regulations on how to dispose of a human body....had a friend that said, just drop me in my septic tank, nope, regulations against it...:O)


67 posted on 08/31/2011 7:43:07 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: MamaDearest

Instead of using that contrivance, I think it would be best to do what natural history museums to to clean an animal cadaver, leaving just clean, dry bones.

By using one type of insect when the human cadaver still has a lot of moisture, then another, when it is somewhat dried out, these insects will get into every nook and cranny and in the course of a week or two in a warm container, will do the same to human remains.

If the use of insects disgusts you, rest assured that insects also get cadavers that are buried, and they are much more loathsome species.

The advantages to doing things this way are first, it is very environmentally sound. It doesn’t need large tracts of land put off limits for a century or more, and the possibility of groundwater contamination. It doesn’t consume a lot of fuel as does cremation. Artificial body parts are recovered, as are any teeth with mercury amalgam fillings.

As far as the bones go, once cleaned, they can be sterilized with ordinary bleach. When dry, ground up and mixed with the dead insects for sanitary burial. Or the bones can be incinerated with a fraction of the fuel needed, the ash put in an urn to about the same volume such ash currently occupies.


68 posted on 08/31/2011 7:43:28 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: Nervous Tick

I can’t to see them go. They are sickos.


69 posted on 08/31/2011 7:55:47 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: MamaDearest
I never thought of the carbon emissions from cremation before.

I'm going to change my will to request cremation in a coal fired oven, with whale oil for the accelerant, an urn made of wood illegally harvested from a rain forest, and have my ashes dumped into the ventilation system at the nearest IRS office.

70 posted on 08/31/2011 7:56:43 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: buccaneer81

I was doing ok until I got the the part about dumping down the sewer.

Undertaker: Yea. Now there’s three things we can do with your mum. We can bury her, burn her, or dump her.

Man: Dump her?

Undertaker: Dump her in the Thames.

Man: What?

Undertaker: Oh, did you like her?

Man: Yes!

Undertaker: Oh well, we won’t dump her, then. Well, what do you think: burn her, or bury her?

Man: Um, well, um, which would you recommend?

Undertaker: Well they’re both nasty. If we burn her, she gets stuffed in the flames, crackle, crackle, crackle, which is a bit of a shock if she’s not quite dead. But quick. And then you get a box of ashes, which you can pretend are hers.


71 posted on 08/31/2011 7:58:10 PM PDT by DManA
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To: MamaDearest
'Ashes to ashes, dust to dust...'

Nope, nothing in there about being chemically rendered to glop.

Besides, no grave, no headstone, no records (must have been a computer error), and eventually people have no idea of who they are culturally, no roots, no history, just another drone.

72 posted on 08/31/2011 8:00:15 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: MamaDearest

They did a test run on Joe Biden’s brain.


73 posted on 08/31/2011 8:01:48 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: MamaDearest
So, that pretty much takes care of DNA identification? That's always a problem in the industry. You whack someone, and then what?

The old standbys, like a 55 gallon drum full of the squealer and cement, in the river, a chest freezer, in a storage unit, under a vacant house, a shallow grave in a forest preserve. A good one is lucking out at a cemetery, and finding a grave that was left open overnight, so that Rocco would only have to dig down an extra couple of feet to hide the evidence. Who keeps digging after they find a coffin?

I'll put in a memo to the Capo, see if we can use the new technology...

74 posted on 08/31/2011 8:02:00 PM PDT by jonascord (Politicians should be pelted with human manure, weekly, to remind them of their worth to society.)
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To: MamaDearest

The Dahmer Method.


75 posted on 08/31/2011 8:03:49 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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To: WorkingClassFilth

No kidding, i’d hate to be the poor bastard who has to clean the tank out between dissolvings.


76 posted on 08/31/2011 8:09:58 PM PDT by Husker24
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To: MamaDearest

How would you like to be the plumber who gets the call to unclog that drain?


77 posted on 08/31/2011 8:11:00 PM PDT by Husker24
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To: MamaDearest

Vat full of lye will dissolve just about anything organic.

Cripes. toss in a couple pounds of bacon grease and turn em into soap!!


78 posted on 08/31/2011 8:12:29 PM PDT by djf (One of the few FReepers who NEVER clicked the "dead weasel" thread!! But may not last much longer...)
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79 posted on 08/31/2011 8:14:18 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: MamaDearest
Cornell does it at their large animal clinic, horses, cows, whatever, down the drain they go...
80 posted on 08/31/2011 8:14:38 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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