Ashes to Ashes, Flush to Flush: Belgium Considering Dissolving Rather than Burning Bodies

Belgium will soon be giving people a funeral more befitting deceased goldfish than people. Undertakers are planning to dissolve dead bodies in caustic solutions and then flush them into the sewers.

In addition to space limitations, the government notes that 573lbs of carbon dioxide are released by each cremated corpse. The solution, they insists is to dissolve rather than to burn the bodies.

Under the process, known as resomation, bodies are treated in a steel chamber with potassium hydroxide at high pressure and a temperature of 180c (350f).

This beats Stockholm’s idea of warming homes with burning bunnies.

Sources: Daily Mail