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Mirrored from: oOoSoldieroOo on Aug 30, 2011

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14114555
New body 'liquefaction' unit unveiled in Florida funeral home
By Neil BowdlerScience reporter, BBC News

Resomation founder Sandy Sullivan explains how the machine works

A Glasgow-based company has installed its first commercial "alkaline hydrolysis" unit at a Florida funeral home.
The unit by Resomation Ltd is billed as a green alternative to cremation and works by dissolving the body in heated alkaline water.
The facility has been installed at the Anderson-McQueen funeral home in St Petersburg, and will be used for the first time in the coming weeks. It is hoped other units will follow in the US, Canada and Europe.
The makers claim the process produces a third less greenhouse gas than cremation, uses a seventh of the energy, and allows for the complete separation of dental amalgam for safe disposal.
Mercury from amalgam vaporised in crematoria is blamed for up to 16% of UK airborne mercury emissions, and many UK crematoria are currently fitting mercury filtration systems to meet reduced emission targets.
"Resomation was developed in response to the public's increasing environmental concerns," company founder Sandy Sullivan told BBC News. "It gives them that working third choice, which allows them to express those concerns in a very positive and I think personal way."
The installation was only made possible after the state legislature in Florida approved the use of the technology, one of seven US states in which the process has now been legalised.
The system works by submerging the body in a solution of water and potassium hydroxide which is pressurised to 10 atmospheres and heated to 180C for between two-and-a-half and three hours.
Body tissue is dissolved and the liquid poured into the municipal water system. Mr Sullivan, a biochemist by training, says tests have proven the effluent is sterile and contains no DNA, and poses no environmental risk.
The bones are then removed from the unit and processed in a "cremulator", the same machine that is used to crush bone fragments following cremation into ash. Metals including mercury and artificial joints and implants are safely recovered.
The machine is patented in Europe with patents pending in other countries.
Legislative hurdle
Alkaline hydrolysis has been used in the past to dispose of medical cadavers and farm animals.
Last year, Aquamation Industries of Australia disposed of several bodies in Queensland using a rival alkaline hydrolysis machine. The same design was also used in Ohio earlier this year to dispose of 19 bodies until a state court shut it down, ruling that the process was not compliant with state law.
Mr Sullivan, whose company is now majority owned by Co-operative Funeralcare, claims his machine will provide a more efficient and quicker process. He also believes the equipment can rival cremation for cost, particularly given the expense of fitting mercury abatement systems.
He is now pressing for legislative changes in the UK to make alkaline hydrolysis a reality in Britain.
"The installations in the US will assist in that process because many of the leaders in the funeral industry are coming to see this unit functioning in the next couple of months once it's running," said Mr Sullivan.
"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."

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  • I couldn’t believe it! Yesterday a friend of mine told me he didn’t have a problem with this. I think its disgusting. It might be sterile and invisible to the eye but its still cannibalism. This world is really losing it.

  • Our air is contaminated and our water is contaminated. Nothing in this world surprises me anymore. The only thing in this world that would surprise me is if someone from the government said one truth. Just one. That would make me drop my jaw.  Thats it.

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  • Totally disgusting drinking dead people flesh in water supply. Even the water is treated, still disgusting.

  • you have to be fuckin stupid to bealive this

  • Does this remind anyone of Soylent Green? They separate the water then the solids for processing! Just think in a few years this method will be commercially viable to sanitizing processed human meat for the mass market.

  • @dipdedar2 The water you boiled your spaghetti in tonight is the same water you flushed down the toilet a month ago. This is nothing to get excited about.

  • Just like on DUNE.....if you die, they take your water.

  • @dipdedar2 wine whiskey beerfromnowwon

  • He doesn't say that at all. I any case, by the time it got to any tap (& the plan is for it only to be used for things like hose pipes, not drinking water), any trace of human fluids would have been killed off & it would in fact be pure water. 95% of our bodies are water our organs need water to stop them drying out hence why it's so important not to get dehydrated (our bodies can begin to shut down very quickly if there's insufficient water intake). I studied this as part of my health degree.

  • WTF??!

  • this is why people are childish

    does anyone understand your already drinking people?

    water does not change,and most water has probably been something more than once already,so that worm that ate your grandma then died,her water got added here,then that water went in a cloud,it came back down,you took river water,and poof,you just drank your grandma,or someone elses,or 5 birds 6 bears and a 5 mil year old dead and gone something.

    water dont chage just the life around it.

  • with all the technology we could be using, they come up with something like this. Someone beam me to a wiser planet.

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