Ultimate recycling

Blimey, Edinburgh's changed since I was last there
This is our local...

 

You should see it when the tide's in.

 

Two other methods for disposing of bodies have been publicised if not commercialised.
1) Body in container add liquid nitrogen, come back a few hours later and but through grinder, the powder can be scattered like ashes. Very green.
2) Body into coffin sized pressure cooker, fill with strong sodium hydroxide and heat, after a few hours and allowing to cool, drain out residual sludge. Residue may need to be neutralised with acid before going down the drain.
Personally I'd prefer composting, or the liquid nitrogen route.
As for the Towers of Silence: in the UK we could repurpose some old castle turrets and I'm sure the local red kite population would soar.

 

Hang on a minute....this grinder....how is it powered?
As for pressure cookers and sludge...
Could Big Ben perhaps be commissioned especially for the disposal of politicans? (Not necessarily before they're dead)

 

Could be solar powered or powered by allowing the nitrogen to expand via a turbine.
Or a handle and the mourners could have a turn as they utter there parting words.

 

Hmm...we're back to possibly relying on solar power, which isn't 100% dependable. I'll take your word for the nitrogen expansion idea
Given the average age of attendees at a funeral, I think the manpower idea would just create more grist to the mill, as it were

 

I'm planning on donating my body to Medical Science, they can chop me up, practice procedures, pickle me and then incinerated what's left in one big job lot. Ashes get sprinkled in Southampton Crem. They then hold memorial services every few years to remember those who have kindly gifted their remains to aid future research and hopefully treatment/ cures.

 

Not necessarily 'prime ' but there are certain criterias in place obviously.

 

So they only want fit and healthy corpses, not too far away and not during the holiday season.

 

And if you can walk in and die on their premises, so much the better. Like being able to drive your old car to the scrappy.

 

Actually they tell you not to put meat on the compost heap because it might attract rats, this Towers of Silence looks like another really good way doing the same thing.

What is the difference between being eaten by birds and eaten by rats.

I'm still erring on maggots myself, I always wanted to fly.

 

In India and such like the vultures get most of the corpse and the rats not much of a look in.

Possibly because the birds soar so high the belief is the soul is carried to heaven (nb just a guess)

 

This reminds me of what the tour guy was telling me down in New Orleans regarding the cavities built into old crypts. They built them so that at the back, it extended well beyond the length of a body and a pit was dug down about 6 or 8 feet thus creating a sort of shaft.

If a new member of the clan died, and it had been more than a year, they opened the front and simply pushed the last dead one, down into the cavity. That is where the saying "I wouldn't touch that with a 10 foot pole", comes from. The pole to shove the old remains was usually at least that length to make sure the old remains got pushed well over the edge.

This whole system depended on the high heat of Nola in the summers to advance the decay of the corpse.

If a second family member died before it had been a year, they were put the new corpse temporarily in another crypt. Like a waiting room ..

Something similar might work with a parabolic set up to mirror and intensify the sun's power to heat the cavity?

Weird topic brought a weird thought to mind. I've got three more plots over at the cemetary and at the moment, I have no intention of using them... might make a good lottie?