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Potassium hydroxide is being mixed with water heated to 150°C. A biochemical reaction is taking place and the flesh is melting off the bones. Over the course of up to four hours, the strong alkaline base causes everything but the skeleton to break down to the original components that built it: sugar, salt, peptides and amino acids; DNA unzips into its nucleobases, cytosine, guanine, adenine, thymine. The body becomes fertiliser and soap, a sterile watery liquid that looks like weak tea. The liquid shoots through a pipe into a holding tank in the opposite corner of the room where it will cool down, be brought down to an acceptable pH for the water treatment plant, and be released down the drain.
Fisher says I can step outside if it all gets too much, but it’s not actually that terrible. The human body, liquefied, smells like steamed clams.
This, Fisher explains, is the future of death.
Unless you have a religious belief against it, is there really a need to have your remains put in a specific spot in the ground? I read a while back about burying people under trees, allowing their remains to fertilize and nourish the tree. I’d love to be buried under an apple tree in Nova Scotia.
They did something similar in “Breaking Bad.”
I see no reason to waste land on a dead person. Cremation might be better if the carbon footprint wasn’t insanely high. If this process wastes less, it works for me. Assuming the organ-donor people are done with me, of course.
I’d be just fine knowing I would be soap in the end.
Just make sure I go to a Victoria’s Secret model please. It’s my only request. Nice thought at least.
“Country clubs and cemeteries are the biggest wasters of prime real estate!”
Shawn, Shawn, Shawn.
What do you think will be the base for Soylent 2.0?
I’d prefer my body was an asset somehow to the earth rather than a liability, so the tree approach sounds a bit better to me than being washed down the drain.
The tree thing sounds nice but a bit posh; I don’t think we’re talking about working orchards or public parks here. I hope I’m wrong, but doesn’t this continue to reserve land use exclusively for dead people?
Alkaline hydrolysis might not sound as poetic, but it returns the body to the ecosystem. I wish it had been available in 2009 when my mother died. That the most efficient available disposition of her body made our atmosphere slightly more difficult to breathe was not lost on me, an asthmatic.
I think this is how the Matrix handles human batteries once they are spent.
I always wondered about the notion of some religions that you had to be buried to be resurrected. What about people who burn in house fires, victims of nuclear attacks where they are vaporized, victims eaten by animals, and of course the Breaking Bad acid bath victims? (Being dissolved in hydrofluoric acid, effective as it would be, certainly won’t smell like clams!)
They also better hope some billionaire doesn’t dig up their graveyard to make way for a golf course.
In the end it’s no mystery at all. They just don’t understand the nature of metaphors.
For the record, this new method is beyond creepy. So no doubt someone will figure out a way to make money off it.
God has his(?) reasons!! /s
Oh, sure, it depends. I don’t mean a tree in a garden labeled “This tree was from Steven Fisher.” But dump the broken-down organic material somewhere and plant something useful over it? That sounds nice.
It is every citizen’s final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people.
—Chairman Sheng-ji Yang,
“Ethics for Tomorrow”
I agree. I’d be happy to help fertilize a community farm, for example.
There’s no shortage of useless ancient rituals that big religions continue to retain as components of keeping the faithful reliant upon the institution and keeping profit centers viable. I resented this specific one eight years ago, and I despise it now.
The Wachowskis keep returning to that metaphor. See “Cloud Atlas” for another example.
I want to be cellular peptide cake with mint frosting.
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i dont know particulars, but if there were a park that people could be buried at naturally, they wouldnt be reserving spots so it would be much more sustainable as there would eventually be overlap over time. plus, parks serve other useful purposes.
Sounds unlikely, but I’d look forward to hearing about such a place.