Telegraph | News | Sweden’s new funeral rite – bodies freeze-dried, powdered and made into tree mulch — Recylcing of a sort. Where is Arch Obler when we need him?
A town in Sweden plans to become the first place in the world where corpses will be disposed of by freeze-drying, as an environmentally friendly alternative to cremation or burial. Jonkoping, in southern Sweden, is to turn its crematorium into a so-called promatorium next year.
Swedes will then have the chance to bury their dead according to the pioneering method, which involves freezing the body, dipping it in liquid nitrogen and gently vibrating it to shatter it into powder. This is put into a small box made of potato or corn starch and placed in a shallow grave, where it will disintegrate within six to 12 months.
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Oh I’m totally doing this. I’m going to go home and tell my wife that i want this done. Sounds awesome as hell.
I wonder what the cost of this is on a per-body basis? I’m guessing significantly less than cremation.
This doesn’t sound much different than something I heard being discussed on am radio (http://www.coasttocoastam.com) in the middle of the night. The guest was Barry Fisher, CEO of Prime Environmental International. The topic was recycling all the debris left from Hurricane Katrina by grinding everything up, no matter what it was into small chunks, cryogenicly freezing it to kill anything living, then shattering the frozen chunks into a powder that could be mixed with resins and polymers and recycled into building materials to be used to rebuild the gulf coast and New Orleans
http://www.recyclinghomes.com/
If this technology does exist and we are not using it to recycle the millons of tons of debris left in the hurricanes aftermath, then we are truely lost as a society! There was slight meantion of this technology being used also as a means of disposal for human remains, but it was very brief.
My last request after cremation is to be mixed with concrete and placed in artificial reefs. There’s a company here that mixes cremations into reef balls and drops them off shore. There’s several cemeteries the UK that buries cotton wrapped unembalmed bodies in a vertical shaft, and places a sapling over the remains. The family can visit your tree as the forest grows.
Whoa, neat. I want to be astronaut ice cream!
Better to be turned into tree mulch than “Soylent Green” 🙂
just as long as my pulpy remains are NOT made into cardboard boxes to ship more junk from China to Walmart….. I don’t care.
Finally, a use for the liberals on this blog.
Very good, James. How about soap? You have precedents for that.
That’s so sick!!!
Did you hear of Life Gem dot com? They can make you into a diamond!
Just what I want, dust me up and dump me out