Posted on 08/31/2011 6:09:45 PM PDT by MamaDearest
Excerpt only website: A Glasgow-based company has installed its first commercial "alkaline hydrolysis" unit at a Florida funeral home.
The unit by Resomation Ltd is billed as a green alternative to cremation and works by dissolving the body in heated alkaline water.
The facility has been installed at the Anderson-McQueen funeral home in St Petersburg, and will be used for the first time in the coming weeks. It is hoped other units will follow in the US, Canada and Europe.
The makers claim the process produces a third less greenhouse gas than cremation, uses a seventh of the energy, and allows for the complete separation of dental amalgam for safe disposal.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Bass -O- Matic
Another “first” for Florida?
>> allows for the complete separation of dental amalgam for safe disposal
Disposal, my eye! They’re going to sell it.
SOYLENT GOLD IS PEOPLE!!!
Well hell! That’s TWICE today!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2771429/posts
Does that mean they can liquify twice the bodies?
Or does it just mean that you failed to search?
People-lutefisk.
Oh yeah humble, I did search, Glasgow did not come in up FR search, nor did funeral.
>> People-lutefisk.
Gross! But kinda true.
Grandma gets turned into a battery. No thanks.
“The makers claim the process produces a third less greenhouse gas than cremation, uses a seventh of the energy, and allows for the complete separation of dental amalgam for safe disposal.”
Huh. Beats digging them gold teeth out with a knife, eh?
Gives new meaning to “go green.”
My thoughts exactly. What is wrong with these people?
Mommy is Grandma going to have a grave? No honey we are having her desolved in acid.
Judge stops Ohio funeral home from liquefying bodies
(Columbus, OH) -- For two months, a funeral home in Columbus, Ohio has been the only one in the state, and maybe the country, to offer an unusual alternative to cremation.
But now, the Department of Health is stepping in to stop it.
The controversial procedure is called alkaline hydrolysis. It converts body tissues to liquid that is then flushed into city sewers. A similar version of the process is used on animal carcasses at the Ohio Department of Agriculture. The Department of Agriculture says it's a more environmentally-friendly way to dispose of bodies. But state health officials say it's not an acceptable way to dispose of bodies.
According to the Columbus Dispatch, Edwards began using the process in January and had disposed of 19 bodies with it, until the state stopped the funeral home from doing it last week.
http://ozarksfirst.com/fulltext?nxd_id=428566
Interesting that I was able to come up with a duplicate thread.
The previous thread must have been hiding, waiting for your awesome repetitive effort.
>> What is wrong with these people?
Nothing that a relaxing soak in a vat of lye wouldn’t cure. :-)
I’ve heard of liquidating your assets, but liquifying your asses ... now that’s a new one.
But wait if you call in the next 30 minutes you’ll receive a buy one get one free, s/h costs only.
You still gotta go through the pockets for loose change first.
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