Buried, burned or ‘breaking bad’?

Nitefly

Nitefly

Nitefly

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When your time comes, how do you want to be disposed of?

It seems that there’s a new way to go out, coming maybe to a town near you…

www.bbc.co.uk

Water cremation: Co-op Funeralcare to be first UK company to offer resomation

The process, used in the US and Canada, will be available later this year through Co-op Funeralcare.
www.bbc.co.uk

The good old ‘dissolve away’ method! Why be burned and pollute the environment when you can get the full ‘make someone conveniently disappear’ treatment \o/

How ominous does this look? :eek:

www.bbc.co.uk

Body 'liquefaction' unit unveiled

A Glasgow-based company has installed its first commercial "alkaline hydrolysis" unit in a funeral home in Florida.
www.bbc.co.uk

I think the idea of cremation seems a little more, uh, ‘natural’ and more in keeping with the lofty ideas of ‘moving away from the world’… even though I shouldn’t really be bothered about what happens to my body!

So how do you want to go? Buried, burned or ‘breaking bad’? I guess you can also go ‘medical science’ but as noble as that is tbh I don’t really like the idea of being dissected by some hungover student :o

I though a jolly subject about death would really help shift those Monday morning blues.
 
I mentioned this in another thread just now, the lack of burial grounds has apparently instigated the search for novel ways of rendering our dead down like a horse for glue.

Dissolving our loved ones in caustic potash is now thrust upon us by the Co-Op's advertising department as "the new and green way", maybe you get a posthumous dividend?

Luckily I managed to get my late parents buried here at home, rather than dissolved in a stainless steel flask and their skeletons crushed to dust in an industrial pulveriser...
 
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to be buried on my own property but i imagine the UK Gov make that as awkward as they possibly can and say its too close to a highway or some other dumb excuse like they do with everything else
 
dave28 said:
to be buried on my own property but i imagine the UK Gov make that as awkward as they possibly can and say its too close to a highway or some other dumb excuse like they do with everything else
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It's not as hard as you may be imagining. Some councils kick up a ruckus as they may never have had the request, but their powers of objection are very limited. Water courses are the main thing.

Edit: It seems the hoops I had to find and climb through are now well documented, have a look here

 
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Does this actual provide anything useful, or is it purely as a method of disposal? At least with cremation, you could use the energy for community heating.

Chris Wilson said:
I mentioned this in another thread just now, the lack of burial grounds has apparently instigated the search for novel ways of rendering our dead down like a horse for glue.

Dissolving our loved ones in caustic potash is now thrust upon us by the Co-Op's advertising department as "the new and green way", maybe you get a posthumous dividend?

Luckily I managed to get my late parents buried here at home, rather than dissolved in a stainless steel flask and their skeletons crushed to dust in an industrial pulveriser...
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Oh Chris, never change :cry:
 
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