Now a plan to dissolve the dead and flush them
By IANSThursday, July 8, 2010
LONDON - Undertakers in Belgium have chalked out a plan to dissolve human corpses in corrosive chemical solution and then flush them into the sewage, rather than running a crematorium or using up land for graves.
The dead would end up in the sewage systems and then be recycled in water processing plants, Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.
The proposal was being studied by the European Union.
However, a survey in Belgium found that many people found the proposal “disturbing”.
“The idea is for the deceased to be placed in a container with water and salts and then pressurised and after a little time, about two hours, mineral ash and liquid is left over,” a spokesman for the Flemish Association of Undertakers was quoted as saying.
The European Commission was probing whether the resulting liquid could safely be flushed into the sewage system.
Six states in the US - Maine, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Oregon, and Maryland - have passed a legislation that allows the process to be used.
