http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14114555 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14114555)
‎"Body tissue is dissolved and the liquid poured into the municipal water system."
And then later, on the very same page:
"Once they see the unit running, see the process and how dignified, respectful, quiet and quick it is, they will help to push through legislative change in the UK."
Nothing says "dignified and respectful" like juicing grandma and pouring her down the drain. :P
Why was this my first thought?
soylent green - the scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edQNjJZFdLU&feature=watch_response#)
It was my first thought too...
Followed up by the dialogue from The Matrix about how the dead are recycled and fed to the living at the power stations.
I came back as a smoothie.
See, this...
Quote from: zarn02 on August 30, 2011, 09:08:22 AM
‎"Body tissue is dissolved and the liquid poured into the municipal water system."
just makes me think of this...
(http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/4029/PreviewComp/SuperStock_4029R-262407.jpg)
Without getting political or religious, as an atheist I don't care if they grind up my body and shoot me out as confetti over Times Square.
This makes sense. Using up valuable land to bury a hunk of rotting flesh in a $8000 box under a $2500 stone is absurd in my opinion. I have asked my family to send me off with a viking funeral just so I don't take up space and I go out in a blaze of glory.
If the idea of dead folks getting into the public water supply creeps you out, hate to ruin your day but groundwater filters through cemeteries too. As long as all biological waste and bacteria are destroyed, sign me up.
Quote from: Artful on August 30, 2011, 11:35:18 AM
Without getting political or religious, as an atheist I don't care if they grind up my body and shoot me out as confetti over Times Square.
This makes sense. Using up valuable land to bury a hunk of rotting flesh in a $8000 box under a $2500 stone is absurd in my opinion. I have asked my family to send me off with a viking funeral just so I don't take up space and I go out in a blaze of glory.
Yeah, i'd prefer the Viking funeral as well. I've already told my fiancée that I want to be roped to my 996, set on fire, and pushed over a cliff ;)
Quote from: Artful on August 30, 2011, 11:35:18 AM
Without getting political or religious, as an atheist I don't care if they grind up my body and shoot me out as confetti over Times Square.
This makes sense. Using up valuable land to bury a hunk of rotting flesh in a $8000 box under a $2500 stone is absurd in my opinion. I have asked my family to send me off with a viking funeral just so I don't take up space and I go out in a blaze of glory.
If the idea of dead folks getting into the public water supply creeps you out, hate to ruin your day but groundwater filters through cemeteries too. As long as all biological waste and bacteria are destroyed, sign me up.
agreed.
i have also demanded a viking funeral for a very long time as well.
I like this option:
http://naturalburial.coop/ (http://naturalburial.coop/)
Another vote for the Viking funeral.
Much more kickass, plus all the other less important benefits.
I was very upset when I first went to Italy and saw that cemeteries are not, in fact, bicycle parking lots.
Quote from: Artful on August 30, 2011, 11:35:18 AM
Without getting political or religious, as an atheist I don't care if they grind up my body and shoot me out as confetti over Times Square.
This makes sense. Using up valuable land to bury a hunk of rotting flesh in a $8000 box under a $2500 stone is absurd in my opinion. I have asked my family to send me off with a viking funeral just so I don't take up space and I go out in a blaze of glory.
If the idea of dead folks getting into the public water supply creeps you out, hate to ruin your day but groundwater filters through cemeteries too. As long as all biological waste and bacteria are destroyed, sign me up.
[thumbsup]
They should use the goo as an additive to a new energy drink.
Quote from: Artful on August 30, 2011, 11:35:18 AM
If the idea of dead folks getting into the public water supply creeps you out, hate to ruin your day but groundwater filters through cemeteries too. As long as all biological waste and bacteria are destroyed, sign me up.
I realize this, and I wouldn't say I'm creeped out by the fact. However, "dignified" simply isn't the adjective I'd use to describe it.
Quote from: sugarcrook on August 30, 2011, 01:05:59 PM
They should use the goo as an additive to a new energy drink.
IT'S PEOPLE! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE#)
Yummy! [roll]
[puke]
Not sure why I even clicked on this thread. [bang] [puke]
I am to be cremated and ashes thrown into the wind on the peak of Camel's Hump in VT.
Can you ferment the grandma juice?
Didn't Keith Richards smoke his dad?
or shot him up or snorted him....
probably all of the above
as much as I like the idea of viking funeral...I thought the idea of being cremated into a certified diamond was pretty durned creative as well
http://www.lifegem.com/ (http://www.lifegem.com/)
Quote from: zooom on August 31, 2011, 01:36:16 PM
as much as I like the idea of viking funeral...I thought the idea of being cremated into a certified diamond was pretty durned creative as well
http://www.lifegem.com/ (http://www.lifegem.com/)
That's make the beast with two backsed up
Why?
First heard about the liquid person extract when I read "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach:
http://www.maryroach.net/stiff.html (http://www.maryroach.net/stiff.html)
(http://www.maryroach.net/images/books/Stiff-cover.jpg)
On a side note for those of you interested in cremation...it's not good for the environment: a good bit of mercury is vaporized into the air even if you don't have any feelings in your teeth. ;D
Quote from: RAT900 on August 31, 2011, 01:12:29 PM
Can you ferment the grandma juice?
Ewww....
Wonder what it would smell like.
Quote from: Speedbag on August 31, 2011, 05:55:18 PM
Ewww....
Wonder what it would smell like.
José Cuervo.
The Tibetan sky burial is a "green" option. (caution content contains icky pictures)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial)
Quote from: Dr. Phil on August 31, 2011, 04:50:43 PM
Why?
within a web page
and
a gimmick
you (the existential individual) have been reduced to a
"Carbon Source"
that's make the beast with two backsed up
Dude, we ARE carbon sources....
Quote from: brimo on September 01, 2011, 12:30:07 AM
The Tibetan sky burial is a "green" option. (caution content contains icky pictures)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial)
Kind of like a NJ Route 287 Roadkill deer sky burial
Quote from: brimo on September 01, 2011, 12:30:07 AM
The Tibetan sky burial is a "green" option. (caution content contains icky pictures)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial)
i saw something about this a while back on tv. seems pretty cool, but must be a bit odd for the family.
guess tha'ts why the family doens't stick around eh?
Quote from: RAT900 on September 01, 2011, 04:45:07 AM
Kind of like a NJ Route 287 Roadkill deer sky burial
[laugh]
Quote from: King Tut on September 01, 2011, 06:55:53 AM
i saw something about this a while back on tv. seems pretty cool, but must be a bit odd for the family.
guess tha'ts why the family doens't stick around eh?
its nauseating. i can imagine it is "environmentally friendly" but (i understand that) the historical reason for doing it is that the soil in Tibet is so rocky, they can't easily bury people.
Well I realize it matters very little after the fact
but from a personal vanity perspective I would hate to think my mortal remains
were rendered into something like buzzard shit
Quote from: RAT900 on September 01, 2011, 08:21:36 AM
Well I realize it matters very little after the fact
but from a personal vanity perspective I would hate to think my mortal remains
were rendered into something like buzzard shit
so you should get yourself rendered into a diamond and leave yourself to your ex wife....imagine it...she'll want the diamond...and to wear and show it off....but she'll have to deal with you on her finger!
Quote from: RAT900 on September 01, 2011, 08:21:36 AM
Well I realize it matters very little after the fact
but from a personal vanity perspective I would hate to think my mortal remains
were rendered into something like buzzard shit
instead, you are put into a box and rendered into worm and beetle shit..
progress>?
Quote from: zooom on September 01, 2011, 08:30:15 AM
so you should get yourself rendered into a diamond and leave yourself to your ex wife....imagine it...she'll want the diamond...and to wear and show it off....but she'll have to deal with you on her finger!
Interesting...
Quote from: ducatiz on September 01, 2011, 08:47:08 AM
instead, you are put into a box and rendered into worm and beetle shit..
progress>?
Since I've taken to telling door-to-door missionaries of all flavors that I'm a Zoroastrian (mostly for the wonderful, befuddled look that crosses their faces), I've started to think that the whole sky burial thing (though the Zoroastrians did it in a constructed "Tower of Silence") makes more and more sense. Not that I have anything against worms, but I can't say I'd mind getting turned for a little while into muscles, bones, feathers, energy & excrement that get to ride on thermals and survey the world below from thousands of feet in the air.
That said, I've told those who care that my preference is cremation, and then let my ashes take one last trip down the Deschutes River.
Call me old fashioned and wasteful but I want a grave marker just like my ancestors....
maybe an oak tree using me for fertilizer
so someday years from now some descendent
can do what I did and track down the marker look at it and say
What in the name of make the beast with two backs-all were you thinking?
Quote from: triangleforge on September 01, 2011, 10:29:27 AM
Since I've taken to telling door-to-door missionaries of all flavors that I'm a Zoroastrian (mostly for the wonderful, befuddled look that crosses their faces), I've started to think that the whole sky burial thing (though the Zoroastrians did it in a constructed "Tower of Silence") makes more and more sense. Not that I have anything against worms, but I can't say I'd mind getting turned for a little while into muscles, bones, feathers, energy & excrement that get to ride on thermals and survey the world below from thousands of feet in the air.
That said, I've told those who care that my preference is cremation, and then let my ashes take one last trip down the Deschutes River.
Cremation - Deschutes River
Sky Burial - poop chute river
Quote from: ducatiz on September 01, 2011, 08:47:08 AM
instead, you are put into a box and rendered into worm and beetle shit..
progress>?
Is it true that you have a Sky Burial stipulation in your will to be placed
in the open, on the roof of your favorite IKEA building
on one of their prize platform bed frames
and be fed to the pigeons?
LOL
no, i am going to be reprocessed into women's underwear.
(let the jokes fly)
Depends for seniors..... ;D
Quote from: ducatiz on September 01, 2011, 12:39:12 PM
[puke]
oh come on you'd love it tucked away up there....
you could count the number of rings and tell how old they were
Quote from: RAT900 on September 01, 2011, 01:40:33 PM
oh come on you'd love it tucked away up there....
you could count the number of rings and tell how old they were
You, sir, are a hilariously evil sonofapregnant dog.
[laugh] [laugh] [laugh] [laugh] [laugh]
Quote from: RAT900 on September 01, 2011, 01:40:33 PM
oh come on you'd love it tucked away up there....
you could count the number of rings and tell how old they were
or someone else can pick the scabs and he can watch and feel the puss run!
now that was RAW
No, notice I said "underwear" not "diapers."
They aren't the same thing.
Of course, I am thinking about some particular ladies that I would like to be "supportive" of, but I'll keep that to myself.
Damn, that's funny. [laugh]
Quote from: RAT900 on September 01, 2011, 11:00:00 AM
Call me old fashioned and wasteful but I want a grave marker just like my ancestors....
Better yet a giant statue of yourself sorta like the one of Jesus down in Rio. Only holding a massive sword. With a tiger on one side and a scantily clad babe holding you around the waist on the other looking up at you in awe. That's it though, wouldn't want it to get tacky or anything.
Something along these lines maybe....in Florentine Marble
I think it is pretty modest,,,,tasteful and gets the lifetime message across
(http://i387.photobucket.com/albums/oo317/kansastigger/Barbarian.jpg)
Pic no worky.
Was it something like this:
(http://i367.photobucket.com/albums/oo118/Speedbag/tombstone.jpg)
I do like the idea of being liquefied, makes my body a solution instead of a problem.
Quote from: brimo on September 01, 2011, 07:31:41 PM
I do like the idea of being liquefied, makes my body a solution instead of a problem.
[laugh] [clap] [laugh] excellent play!
Quote from: brimo on September 01, 2011, 07:31:41 PM
I do like the idea of being liquefied, makes my body a solution instead of a problem.
[laugh] [laugh] [laugh]