Really Serious Recycling
Wasn't it just a matter of time before some brilliant ecologically-minded inventor would come up with a winning scheme for the ultimate recycling project? Well, yes, one supposes so. Not for the faint of heart, to tackle a project of this dimension, to visualize a way in which to dispose of the remains of, well, let's face it, everyone on earth eventually, as we come and go on this mortal coil.
No longer is it to be deemed providential to think of filling up all these cemeteries with lead-lined boxes that take forever and a millennium to decay, when the living are filling up all available land masses. And just think, as decay sets in and all those nasty flesh-gobbling creepy crawlies do their darndest to return the quick to the dust from which they came, an off-set is the contamination of underground watercourses.
Ugh, really. Cremation, which seems a suitable alternative to the conventional embalming and six-foot-below burials in countless cemeteries all over the world, so beloved by grieving family as a memorial to the dearly departed and a solid place where one can visit to speak in faint tones to those long gone but not forgotten, is not, after all, so environmentally friendly.
For cremation, the act of burning the deceased, creates its own dioxin and mercury emissions, with carbon particulates belching out all over the atmosphere. Gotta be a better solution, right? Well, it might appear there is, as an inventor from Sweden has developed a prototype corpse freezer-dryer, termed a Promotorium, meant to - what else - demonstrate a carbon-neutral burial.
Countries as diverse as South Korea, Britain, South Africa and a few cities in the United States have demonstrated initial interest in the process. The Swedish government is itself on board, as is the Lutheran Church. What more could an enterprising inventor wish for? Well, perhaps a bit more alacrity on the part of the bureaucrats upon whom one depends for the go-ahead.
Biologist Susanne Wiigh-Maesak, she of the brilliant Swedish enterprise is understandably frustrated at the delays. Only 51 years old herself, she is yet anticipating her invention as a means by which her own body can be disposed of, ecologically, in the hopes that she will eventually become the means by which a white rhododendron bush might be fertilized.
For the freeze-dried remains are to be pulverized and bundled into a potato jacket, under which conditions the bundle will swiftly decompose into usable compost.
Who even know there were such wonders as white rhododendrons?
No longer is it to be deemed providential to think of filling up all these cemeteries with lead-lined boxes that take forever and a millennium to decay, when the living are filling up all available land masses. And just think, as decay sets in and all those nasty flesh-gobbling creepy crawlies do their darndest to return the quick to the dust from which they came, an off-set is the contamination of underground watercourses.
Ugh, really. Cremation, which seems a suitable alternative to the conventional embalming and six-foot-below burials in countless cemeteries all over the world, so beloved by grieving family as a memorial to the dearly departed and a solid place where one can visit to speak in faint tones to those long gone but not forgotten, is not, after all, so environmentally friendly.
For cremation, the act of burning the deceased, creates its own dioxin and mercury emissions, with carbon particulates belching out all over the atmosphere. Gotta be a better solution, right? Well, it might appear there is, as an inventor from Sweden has developed a prototype corpse freezer-dryer, termed a Promotorium, meant to - what else - demonstrate a carbon-neutral burial.
Countries as diverse as South Korea, Britain, South Africa and a few cities in the United States have demonstrated initial interest in the process. The Swedish government is itself on board, as is the Lutheran Church. What more could an enterprising inventor wish for? Well, perhaps a bit more alacrity on the part of the bureaucrats upon whom one depends for the go-ahead.
Biologist Susanne Wiigh-Maesak, she of the brilliant Swedish enterprise is understandably frustrated at the delays. Only 51 years old herself, she is yet anticipating her invention as a means by which her own body can be disposed of, ecologically, in the hopes that she will eventually become the means by which a white rhododendron bush might be fertilized.
For the freeze-dried remains are to be pulverized and bundled into a potato jacket, under which conditions the bundle will swiftly decompose into usable compost.
Who even know there were such wonders as white rhododendrons?
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