UK firm: Don't burn bodies, boil them Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A British company says it has an eco-friendly alternative to cremation: boiling bodies into dust. The process is called resomation.
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Posted: 1 year ago by pocksucket:
Yup - I'd have no problem with that.
I'd prefer it to cremation. I think I may have mentioned before I have a bit of a fear of being buried alive. When the choices were just being buried and being burned, I preferred burned. But drowned seems even better.
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Posted: 1 year ago by Ellz:
I'm going to be embalmed, thank you very much. When I think of how bad it smells when you boil meat to help it thaw...ughhh. Not that that's a reason not to do this, but...euuuuuuuggghhhhh!
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Posted: 1 year ago by Purzhia:
This sounds like an interesting idea, but I'm not sure how I'd react when confronted with the resulting bag of bone dust, bottle of liquid, and my loved one's miscellaneous metal implants (yeah, I scanned through the brochure.)
Given the choice between burning or boiling, I think I'd prefer boiling though.
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Posted: 1 year ago by ArchAngel:
hey, as long as my body can get shot into space (without landing back somewhere on earth), I'm fine.
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Posted: 1 year ago by pocksucket:
Hadn't thought about the smell. Boiled ham, I'd guess.
And ArchAngel, I didn't realise that being shot into space was on the table. If I'd known that, I wouldn't even have looked at boiling.
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Posted: 1 year ago by digitalgimpling:
mmm, just throw in some black eyed peas and rice and we'll have some hoppin' john...
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Posted: 1 year ago by gammerus:
I find boiling/burning to be equally creepy.. I have no desire to carry about peoples ashes/liquids.
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Posted: 1 year ago by Sandy:
I am the founder of Resomation Ltd who make this equipment. The newspapers have coined the phrase "boiling" the body. It is not! It is a chemical hydrolysis (with added alkali)at high temperature 170C with the body immersed in water. Boiling is a phase change where water is turned to steam.This system is under high pressure and boiling does not happen.The body tissues are rapidly (within 30 minutes "resolved" into liquid and back to their original organic building blocks.It is a very efficient speeded up version of natural decomposition and the liquid can be applied on horticultral land if desired.The liquid produced has a very slight and innocuous odour of soap! It certainly is not cooking or boiling as the tissues are rapidly turned into a natural based chemical liquid as would be found at the nd of a natural decomposition albeit it might take a year or more. It is certainly less violent ,destructive ,contaminating and energy consuming than cremation.
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