Funeral Business Dissolves the Dead and Pours Them Into the Sewer System

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Waterworks officials in a small town southwest of Ottawa are monitoring a funeral company that has become the first in Ontario to use an alkaline solution to dissolve human remains, and then drain the leftover coffee-coloured effluents into the sewer system.
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This sounds interesting. If this process can dissolve the organics, without presenting any pollutants to a potential water source, it would seem to be worthy of consideration for the "final" event. I'm going to bookmark that article and do some research to see if such a service is available in our area. We are leaning towards cremation, but this sounds even better.
 
That sounds like the way Walt would get rid of the people they killed in Breaking Bad. They had a chemical that dissolved the bodies! It sounds disgusting to me.
 

At first blush, it sounds pretty gross. However, I guess it's not much ickier than cremation. Though I believe a body should be handled respectfully, I don't believe it matters very much what happens to a dead body, as it is no longer the person.
 
I'm wondering what is the pH of the residue that is released into the environment. I would be happier if it was to be ponded first to allow full a biodegrading process to take place before making its way into the water courses.
 
Knowing this, I wouldn't be able to use the water at all if I lived in the area and relied upon it. It just grosses me out too much. Just a personal thing. It's probably safe enough but the idea of it is repulsive. :culpability:
 
No one has ever come back to tell us what Cremation was like... or being "dissolved" for that matter. I'll stick to the traditional burial process.
 
Sounds kinda crappy to me, no way would I drink water that had dead people dissolved in it. Heck, I hardly drink city water now, I usually bring my own 5 gallons of well water with me when I visit. (and yes my kids think that is weird) I guess after drinking water that had dead people in it, the next step is to convince you it is ok to spread the dead people paste on a cracker and consume it as well. But first they will get you to drink the dead people. One step at a time folks, nothing to see here.

It is going to be cremation for this old buzzard when my time comes. The ashes are heading for the woods behind my little place in the country.
 
chic said:
Knowing this, I wouldn't be able to use the water at all if I lived in the area and relied upon it. It just grosses me out too much. Just a personal thing. It's probably safe enough but the idea of it is repulsive. :culpability:
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I'm with you, Chic. I will be cremated, my ashes mixed with my wife's and both returned to the universe. The result would be the same, but somehow, being flushed doesn't seem quite as romantic. :stop:
 
That sounds like the way Walt would get rid of the people they killed in Breaking Bad. They had a chemical that dissolved the bodies! It sounds disgusting to me.

I agree, my first thought was the mobsters used to do something like that in the old days.

I want to be cremated, then sons and best buddy walk through the nature reserve sprinkling me here and there...back to the earth and all that...
 
fureverywhere said:
That sounds like the way Walt would get rid of the people they killed in Breaking Bad. They had a chemical that dissolved the bodies! It sounds disgusting to me.

I agree, my first thought was the mobsters used to do something like that in the old days.

I want to be cremated, then sons and best buddy walk through the nature reserve sprinkling me here and there...back to the earth and all that...
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Ruthanne said:
That sounds like the way Walt would get rid of the people they killed in Breaking Bad. They had a chemical that dissolved the bodies! It sounds disgusting to me.
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Yep, that was the episode that got me hooked on the series. A mix of comedy and tragedy.
 
"It brings your body back to its natural state," says Dale Hilton, owner of Aquagreen Dispositions.
It takes less time than the 15-20 years it takes in the ground.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/21/green-funeral-firm-dissolves-human-remains-before-draining-them/

It is an alternative "cremation" offered by the funeral home, one of the "green" methods offered these days. It was done in the USA before this Canadian funeral home started offering the service. There are other "green" methods, among them burial at sea, burial in a biodegradable container without being shot full of chemical preservatives and deposited in a lead-lined grave. "Earth to earth" sort of thing; well, since the human body is said to be 60% water (haven't verified that yet), maybe this is "water to water."

The OP makes it sound like a Vincent Price movie or an Edgar Allan Poe story.

Nope.
 
I find my own reaction to this interesting. Why am I perfectly happy to be incinerated and distributed but revulsed at the thought of being dissolved and flushed? Hmm.
 
Underock1 said:
I find my own reaction to this interesting. Why am I perfectly happy to be incinerated and distributed but revulsed at the thought of being dissolved and flushed? Hmm.
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I have a bit of the same reaction -- even though I know it makes absolutely what happens to your body after death -- dead is dead. Maybe because we are more used to the idea of cremation, and it does seem a bit tidier.
 
Not too keen on this idea either. Maybe it's the liquid versus the dry. For some reason I associate liquid with yucky things and bacteria, and dry things with clean. :p Not rational, I know.
 
NancyNGA said:
Not too keen on this idea either. Maybe it's the liquid versus the dry. For some reason I associate liquid with yucky things and bacteria, and dry things with clean. :p Not rational, I know.
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I think you might be on to something, Nancy. I think that was part of my own reaction.
 
Warrigal said:
I'm wondering what is the pH of the residue that is released into the environment. I would be happier if it was to be ponded first to allow full a biodegrading process to take place before making its way into the water courses.
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I tend to agree. The whole thing sounds a bit too Soylent Green-ish to me.

If cremation is being pointed at as a pollutant, I'm totally in favor of addressing that issue, and finding a *cleaner* method. Vaporization :)
 

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