An age old question - what do you do with the body?

By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics and access other forums reserved for members. Registration is quick, simple and absolutely free. Join our community today by clicking here.

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:10 pm

Currently we have internment (at land or sea) or cremation. It appears we may also soon be able to choose liquidation or 'Promession' (which I choose to term the 'flash n smash').

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14114555
Love the bit which says the effluent will be released into the public water system.. :yikes:

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:16 pm

Oh my!! I can see it now. "Where's grandma?"

Baiting Guru Joined: 27 Mar 2011 Posts: 21158

Stock up on the piss water now before they release that mess into the supply! @Futon, where are the restraint devices?

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:26 pm

I am truly trying to be open minded about this all. And I have a very strong stomach and love to talk about the most morbid of things. But this:

Quote:

Body tissue is dissolved and the liquid poured into the municipal water system. Mr Sullivan, a biochemist by training, says tests have proven the effluent is sterile and contains no DNA, and poses no environmental risk.

I know it shouldn't bother me. I mean, shit and other gross bodily fluids (and who the hell knows what else) are poured down toilets, tubs, showers, and sinks and then into the sewage and is treated before going into the water system. So this should be no different. But for some reason it just does. Confused

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:43 pm

Acid bath murderers have been doing this for ages. John George Haigh

Perhaps you could take home a bottle of gloop to remember your loved one.

Or you could just hide Gandma in the cloudy municipal pool:
Body in pool went undetected for days

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:53 pm

^^ Exactley, I see this as a business opportunity for places like D1bley Man0r to take advantage of. Just think, an old fokls home that saves on funeral expenses too.
Marvelous opportunity for baiters who's charactar can reveal their fears - "Old Albert's been gone for three weeks now, they sais he wondered off again but I know what happened to him. I don't want to go ther same way, and that carer was looking at me funny again.... GET ME OUTTA HERE!" Very Happy

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 6:09 pm

@ Dora - those were my thoughts exactly. Logically it should be fine. In practice though? Ew!

I'm also suspicious of these 'tests'. Who carried them out? What was the remit? How did they achieve measurable results? Was it private research or a government agency? Were any backhanders involved to achieve favourable results? (Not accusing, just voicing my cynicism - it is after all a profit-led business, seems to be par for the course.)

As for the 'freeze-dried' process - I just can't help thinking of that scene in Terminator 2 where the baddie gets frozen and shattered.

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:45 am

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!

and camera fade out as truck drives away into the night...

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 2:36 am

^^ xxackly

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 2:49 am

On a related note: when they cremate someone, do they capture the smoke, or does it go out the chimney so am I inhaling bits of peoples' grandmas every time I breathe?

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 2:59 am

Wear an N95 mask... Shocked

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:06 am

They have huge muffler type mechanism on crematoriums.

Sources: http://www.matthewscremation.com/equipment/human-cremation-equipment.aspx Watch the After Burner part!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cremation

I don't have a problem with the water issue. The human body is 75% water anyway and it has to go some place...

Waste water treatment plant water is not put directly into the public water system. It is released into the air through evaporation or into the ground for percolation through the rocks.

I won't tell you what my uncle said he saw floating in the municipal water supply tanks... Shocked

I prefer distilled water. Very Happy

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:54 am

Indiscriminate Drinker wrote:

I prefer distilled water.

So do I, but only after it has been flavoured with smoked malted barley, then steeped in spring water with yeast. Then you can distill it.

[/quote]

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:25 am

Or we could just, you know, bury bodies like we used to. Plant a tree on top and it's probably carbon neutral.

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:43 am

bohigal wrote:

when they cremate someone, do they capture the smoke, or does it go out the chimney so am I inhaling bits of peoples' grandmas every time I breathe?

You are actually inhaling the mercury from their fillings - the number one source of mercury pollution is cremations!

*** BANNED *** Joined: 18 Jul 2004 Posts: 2049

I am truly surprised that the old farts around here missed this solution to boring old burials.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWWg5shNWR4

Trophy Videos · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 5:13 pm

^^

I never saw that one, GH. Very Happy

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:04 pm

Recycle them linky

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:24 pm

There was a report on BBC Radio a few weeks ago about the heat generated from a Council run Crematorium in a Midlands town being piped into the public swimming baths next door to help keep the water heated.

For some a moral dilemma, to me common sense if you heard the discussion.

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 7:34 pm

Cougar wrote:

An age old question - what do you do with the body?

Hide it and hope nobody finds it. If they do, you should lawyer up and don't answer any questions because...

Oh, now I see the link. Wink

I don't really care what is done with my body when I'm gone. It's not like I'm going to need it for anything.

They're really over-thinking all this body disposal stuff though. Dig a hole, drop em in (sans-coffin/embalming) and let nature do what it has done for hundreds of thousands of years - before we got here and decided we could improve on the process. Laughing

Baiting Guru Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 2301

I want a viking burial. Put me on a wooden raft, soak me in gasoline, strike a match and kick me to the curb. Since that won't happen, just cremate me, and after that I really don't care. My family could flush me down the toilet for all I care. As for a "romantic" farewell, I can't go into that, because it would violate the TOS with politics and religion. Wink

Once I'm dead, it really won't matter.

If the body disposal in this thread is consistent with a sewage treatment plant, I don't have a problem drinking the water. I worked at a plant many moons ago, and the process is pretty cool. Mother nature is ultimately the best filter. Remember, when you have that drink of water, it has been through the bodies of many, many people before. Smile

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:09 pm

@piecrust Thank for the Dibley mention, but it is in my sig line so no need to obscure it. It is available for any baiter to use as is the other website in my sig line.

As to me and my remains, I am going for http://www.eternalreefs.com/

Eternal Reefs is a Green thing and gives new meaning to sleeping with da fishes. Laughing

Edited:To fix websites in sig line so are not googleable.

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:09 pm

Or you can wear granny on your finger or around your neck.

And for the yecchh! factor, let's not forget Keith Richards' solution.

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:58 pm

Morgain Le Fay wrote:

Eternal Reefs is a Green thing and gives new meaning to sleeping with da fishes. Laughing

What, like Troy McLure?

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 12:13 am

Alkali pressure cooker, sweet. Could double up as rapid lutefisk processor.

As a hideous aside, I found this. It needs no introduction, just enjoy it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_decapitator

An age old question - what do you do with the body?	View next topic View previous topic