Swedish company offers to freeze and explode your corpse

[SlyPokerDog]

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A Swedish company has developed a way to deal with human remains that removes the most pollutant aspects of burial by sending them the way of the Terminator.

The body is frozen to around -18C and submerged into liquid nitrogen, allowing the body to become brittle.

Once the body is sufficiently brittle, it is shocked with mechanical vibrations, shattering it into a powder.

The process doesn’t end there, either. Weight is still an issue.

Once in powder form, the remains still weigh about as much as a human body, but Promessa has developed a solution for that too.

The powder is placed in a vacuum chamber which sets about removing water from the remains, shedding about 70% of the body’s mass.

Water boils instantly in a vacuum so the water is literally steamed from the body.

All that remains after this process are organic materials, metal parts, (mostly life-saving technological devices implanted in the body such as pacemakers - which are removed) and mercury.

The company recommends placing the remains in a cornstarch coffin which should be buried in a plot that allows the remains to break down into compost within a year-and-a-half. Hardwood coffins, additives and large cemetery plots are a no no.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/s...rpse-t1000-style/story-fn5fsgyc-1226017744340

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Yes, but will Medicare pay for it?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Yes, but will Medicare pay for it?

That's a question you should ask your death panel.

 

[PapaG]

I want to donate my corpse to barfo's body-burning plants.

 

[maxiep]

I wonder how many people would want to watch their loved ones being shattered Terminator-style?

On the flip side, I think one could create a hell of a kitty to pay for seats to watch the shattering for someone like Qaddafi.

 

[GriLtCheeZ]

Sweet!

 

[STOMP]

all sounds good to me, I wonder how much it is expected to cost

STOMP

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

all sounds good to me, I wonder how much it is expected to cost

STOMP

In addition to that, will they come to you- a mobile unit that comes to the house, freeze dries you, vacuums out your bodily fluids and then places a little plastic explosives up the rectum and............. 3.................. 2...................1............... KA-BOOM!!

"Thank you for having us into your home. Enclosed in the brochure are several business cards to distribute to neighbors, friends and families. Or, visit at our website, www.freezedriedrectumblowups.com. Or, if you might be interested in a franchise, please call out marketing department at 1-800-659-4283. That number, once again, is 1-800-659-4283."

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

i thought a place in portland was doing this too.

 

[jlprk]

The company recommends placing the remains in a cornstarch coffin which should be buried in a plot that allows the remains to break down into compost within a year-and-a-half. Hardwood coffins, additives and large cemetery plots are a no no.

I thought I was the only one who sleeps in a cornstarch coffin all day. Tastes like hot cornbread with melting butter unless I find someone's neck.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Cool!