First, I would like to say “Long time no see!!!”   Just have been torn between many things and a well deserved vacation. 

Ok, now we get to the article I found.  Check this out, I pulled this from MAKE magazine’s feed:

BBC News – New body ‘liquefaction’ unit unveiled in Florida funeral home via BB.

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.

So you tell me, doesn’t this sound like Soylent Green?  They are MELTING people down.  Now I am all for saving the environment by melting people, as long as they are “properly” disposed of.  It gives me the creeps to think of me being dissolved.  I am alright and actually want to be cremated as it is cheaper than burial, but this…. I still don’t know.

Original Article [News From The Future: Body ‘Liquefaction’ from MAKE]