If you live in Florida, you can flush your body down the toilet when you die with this body-dissolving machine
- 8 years ago
ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA — A Florida funeral home was the first funeral home in the United States to use an "alkaline hydrolysis" unit in 2011.
The Resomator is a steel chamber that uses a solution of water and potassium hydroxide to dissolve bodies. The chamber is pressurized to 10 atmospheres and the temperature is cranked up to 180 degrees Celsius for between two-and-a-half to three hours as the remains are dissolved.
The resulting body liquid is pure enough to be disposed of in the sewer system, while the bones are crushed into ash. The BBC reports that tests have proved that the resulting liquid is sterile, contains no DNA and poses no environmental risks.
At the time the unit was installed at the Anderson-McQueen funeral home in St. Petersburg, proponents of the technology hoped that it would pave the way for additional units in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Legislators, however, remain divided about the new technology, and according to the BBC, the Resomator is still only allowed in a handful of states.
Resomation Ltd., the company that makes the Resomator, says its units are efficient and a green alternative to cremation, since each unit produces a third of the greenhouse gasses that cremation does.
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The Resomator is a steel chamber that uses a solution of water and potassium hydroxide to dissolve bodies. The chamber is pressurized to 10 atmospheres and the temperature is cranked up to 180 degrees Celsius for between two-and-a-half to three hours as the remains are dissolved.
The resulting body liquid is pure enough to be disposed of in the sewer system, while the bones are crushed into ash. The BBC reports that tests have proved that the resulting liquid is sterile, contains no DNA and poses no environmental risks.
At the time the unit was installed at the Anderson-McQueen funeral home in St. Petersburg, proponents of the technology hoped that it would pave the way for additional units in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Legislators, however, remain divided about the new technology, and according to the BBC, the Resomator is still only allowed in a handful of states.
Resomation Ltd., the company that makes the Resomator, says its units are efficient and a green alternative to cremation, since each unit produces a third of the greenhouse gasses that cremation does.
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