Reply to: Time to Die...

[OwlHoot]

Once Brexit takes hold Soylent Green will be the only thing left on the supermarket shelves. It's people! Soylent Green is people!

Seriously, in thirty years I can envisage giant farm ziggurats i.e. pyramid-shaped multi-stepped tower blocks dotted around the UK and even floating offshore to grow hydroponically all the food that the vast population will need by then.

[GJABS]

Some people who die have high levels of bacteria or viruses in their bodies. How confident are we that the alkaline treatment will be effective in killing all of those pathogens?

[d000hg]

Why? at least this is a natural and quick process

How is getting drunk and chopping up a corpse a natural process?

Vote Lib Dem, they want to legalise cannibalism. Very efficient disposal of corpses.

PS Hang on, I misread the manifesto. It's cannabis.

Easy mistake to make when you're stoned out of your gourd.

[VectraMan]

...then packaging it as Soylent...

Once Brexit takes hold Soylent Green will be the only thing left on the supermarket shelves. It's people! Soylent Green is people!

That's assuming we don't find ourselves in a world where humankind has died out to be replaced by zombies, or one where we're slaves to a race of super intelligent apes. Or any other Charlton Heston sci-fi film I've forgotten.

[RSoles]

Interesting alternative to cremation or burial - using alkaline hydrolysis to basically cleanse the tissue away and then grind down the bones that are left

...then packaging it as Soylent...

[xoggoth]

Vote Lib Dem, they want to legalise cannibalism. Very efficient disposal of corpses.

PS Hang on, I misread the manifesto. It's cannabis.

[quackhandle]

Why? at least this is a natural and quick process

Possibly, maybe not for the chap doing it.

qh

[scooterscot]

Thought this was another Tory manifesto pledge for them up in years thread

[Eirikur]

Better than the remote Himalayan tribe where one feller gets drunk and proceeds to cut the carcass up to feed to the vultures.


qh

Why? at least this is a natural and quick process

[quackhandle]

Unfortunately that "natural process" often includes being dug up and torn apart and scattered by foxes!

Better than the remote Himalayan tribe where one feller gets drunk and proceeds to cut the carcass up to feed to the vultures.


qh

[OwlHoot]

And the problem with that is? ...

Not a problem in principle, although those attending subsequent funerals in the wood might be somewhat put out if it looked and smelled like a cannibal's lair strewn with rotting maggoty limbs and skulls and clouds of flies.

[WTFH]

Unfortunately that "natural process" often includes being dug up and torn apart and scattered by foxes!

And the problem with that is?

Oh yes, if the foxes are hunted to near extinction as per the request of all Tory voters, then the remaining ones will dig up, but not eat all the flesh, leaving it to rot. At which point the foxes will be to blame, or possibly the EU.

[Hobosapien]

When the foreign built and owned power stations become too expensive to run, and everyone's been taxed out of diesel cars into electric ones, they'll want people to opt for biomass energy production instead of standard cremation. Instead of an urn of ashes they'll give you some leccy credits.

[OwlHoot]

... it means that the natural processes take place as they would for any other animal

Unfortunately that "natural process" often includes being dug up and torn apart and scattered by foxes!

[original PM]

How about burying in the woods without a coffin, or at sea. As long as the body isn't wrapped in anything to prevent decomposition, or that would poison the flora and fauna, then nature will use the nutrients quite quickly. This then doesn't require harmful alkalis (such as are used in resomation) and it means that the natural processes take place as they would for any other animal

This is a bit of a thing - being buried in what accounts to no more than a grow bag with a sapling in it - as you decompose the tree is fed and low and behold you become a tree!