Michael Gilligan | 03/07/2023 06:00:55 |
![]() 23121 forum posts 1360 photos | Interesting news in the Guardian, and presumably elsewhere MichaelG. |
Mark Rand | 03/07/2023 07:56:35 |
1505 forum posts 56 photos | Having turned most of you into soap, where do they sell the soap? |
V8Eng | 03/07/2023 08:30:59 |
1826 forum posts 1 photos | Our microwave is Far too small to boil a human😉👹 Edited By V8Eng on 03/07/2023 08:33:39 |
John P | 03/07/2023 08:33:00 |
451 forum posts 268 photos | |
Circlip | 03/07/2023 09:21:14 |
1723 forum posts | Bit more trash to keep the post count up. Regards Ian. |
Ady1 | 03/07/2023 09:47:03 |
![]() 6137 forum posts 893 photos | Tea room talk for old duffers Now it's on the horizon I aint got a clue what I'd "like", none of them have any great appeal My pal donated herself to science, no funeral, nuffink, here today gone tomorrow I'd probably prefer that approach, cart me off for disposal and no hoo-ha |
noel shelley | 03/07/2023 10:11:03 |
2308 forum posts 33 photos | Bearing in mind the thread title, my first thought was is the reaction exothermic ? Noel. |
Peter G. Shaw | 03/07/2023 10:48:47 |
![]() 1531 forum posts 44 photos | As someone rapidly, ie 17 days to go, approaching his 80th birthday, suffering from BigC, and possibly other stuff as well, I do look forward with, well, I don't know what. Fear? Trepidation? Pain - well, I've got that already. And so on. Yes folks, I'm well aware now that end of life beckons, and I'm trying to get rid of stuff. Indeed, the workshop hasn't been used this year, actually probably since last October. What do I want? The Fire? The Flood? The Ground? So far no-one's come back to say how it feels, so don't know what I want. Perhaps I'll chicken out and leave it to someone else to decide, coward that I am. Not good, not good. All I can say is that when I look back and see what I, an ex-Grammar School lad with 3 'O' Levels and (eventually) a C&G Full Technological Certificate, managed to achieve without too much effort, well, it's not been too bad a life. Melancholy. Or what? Peter G. Shaw |
blowlamp | 03/07/2023 11:09:27 |
![]() 1885 forum posts 111 photos | Posted by Mark Rand on 03/07/2023 07:56:35:
Having turned most of you into soap, where do they sell the soap? Soap? They'll be making lampshades from us next. Not that I'd take anything from the Guardian as fact.
Martin. |
Michael Gilligan | 03/07/2023 11:16:59 |
![]() 23121 forum posts 1360 photos | Now that the discussion is ‘on-track’ … I will just mention that [like Ady’s friend], I have offered my whole body to ‘Science’ : In my case that is specifically to Keele University. https://www.keele.ac.uk/medicine/ourfacilities/anatomy/donating/ Only if [when the big day comes] they refuse it, will my children have the disposal decision to make. MichaelG. . Edit: __ posted before I saw Blowlamp’s intervention Edited By Michael Gilligan on 03/07/2023 11:18:28 |
Martin Connelly | 03/07/2023 13:12:04 |
![]() 2549 forum posts 235 photos | My father-in-law's body went to Nottingham Queens University Teaching Hospital. We had a funeral service without a coffin/body. I think it was about 10 years later when they informed us that his remains had been completely disposed of. I think I may do the same thing. Martin C |
Mark Rand | 03/07/2023 13:25:54 |
1505 forum posts 56 photos | Posted by blowlamp on 03/07/2023 11:09:27:
Posted by Mark Rand on 03/07/2023 07:56:35:
Having turned most of you into soap, where do they sell the soap? Soap? They'll be making lampshades from us next. Not that I'd take anything from the Guardian as fact.
Martin. Soap is what you get when you react animal fats with potassium hydroxide in the right concentration. |
Michael Gilligan | 03/07/2023 13:32:27 |
![]() 23121 forum posts 1360 photos | Quote from the aforementioned News item: Northumbrian Water has granted approval for the resulting water to be sent back into the drainage network as “trade effluent”, the same permit used by launderettes. MichaelG. |
roy entwistle | 03/07/2023 13:36:14 |
1716 forum posts | I'd like to be left outside, under a hedge possibly somewhere in the Penines. Roy |
Nigel Graham 2 | 03/07/2023 13:54:45 |
3293 forum posts 112 photos | The Guardian was right in reporting the method being developed, though I do not know how it described it, and I would not be surprised if it was the newspaper who invented the stupid and insensitive "boil in a bag" description. To which, I would add feeble attempts at jokes about soap are just as bad. It has just been covered on the BBC Radio Four news programme but it is not not new news: I learnt of this in a programme about various funeral method some while ago. Last year I think; and covering "woodland" and sea-burials too. The "water cremation" as it is sometimes called, uses a hot alkaline solution to reduce the body to, eventually, a white powder no different by the relatives' point of view, from the ashes from a gas or electric cremator*. The liquid, rendered safe for disposal, is probably discharged into the drain but the interviewee was understandably rather coy about that, talking instead about "returning it to the natural water cycle". She did though say it contains no material such as DNA. (I would not expect that to survive any cremation method.) . *("Cremator" is the proper term: it is not an "oven" or "furnace"!) |
Michael Gilligan | 03/07/2023 14:14:07 |
![]() 23121 forum posts 1360 photos | Quite so, Nigel … much of what you mention is noted in the Guardian article. And … as you were wondering … [I would not be surprised if it was the newspaper who invented the stupid and insensitive "boil in a bag" description.] … it also contains a direct link to this page:
MichaelG. Edited By Michael Gilligan on 03/07/2023 14:26:07 |
DMB | 03/07/2023 14:15:43 |
1585 forum posts 1 photos | FWIW, piece of advice picked up from somewhere. Write a letter of wishes e.g., what do you want done with your body, burial (expensive), cremation (bit cheaper) donated to science (free) unless you want some sort of memorial service or ' boil in the bag'. Bugger me, whatever next. A letter of wishes could include things other than funerary wishes but anything of monetary value needs to go in a will setting out disposal and assessment for taxman to have his last greedy bite. The letter could be stored with your will, if you make one, with a copy given to your Executor. As for flushing the dissolved remains down the drain/ sewage system, yuk! a bit more for a gobfull when you go swimming, which I dont. Edited By DMB on 03/07/2023 14:19:26 |
Chuck Taper | 03/07/2023 14:50:36 |
![]() 95 forum posts 37 photos | My own thoughts on reading the article. 1 human (H) per 100 gallons (g) of water. Average human body 14g (UK gal) 0.14 H/g (is there a corresponding SI unit!). Tis still a fair concentration of whatever is left at the end of the process - and they intend to let it down the drain ???? Is there an upper concentration at which it exceeds the relevant standard? Regards. Frank C. |
Harry Wilkes | 03/07/2023 16:24:44 |
![]() 1613 forum posts 72 photos | Posted by roy entwistle on 03/07/2023 13:36:14:
I'd like to be left outside, under a hedge possibly somewhere in the Penines. Roy Nice for me cremation then ashes taken down the SVR and popped into the firebox of what ever is in steam on the day H |
Nigel Graham 2 | 03/07/2023 17:11:43 |
3293 forum posts 112 photos | Not so many hedges in the Pennines, but I expect they'll find a nice cosy dry-stone wall for you. The original programme I heard described the process (I think called 'racematising' in chemistry?) as only what bacteria do in Nature, but a lot more rapidly, a lot less unpleasantly and of course without the microbes and potentially harmful by-products. Or the CO2 emissions from the fuel alone of a gas-fired cremator, which uses a prodigious amount of fuel partly due to (originally) EU regulations demanding a higher temperature than really needed, and pre-heating. |
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