Is heating a swimming pool using a crematorium 'sick'?

[Backdrifter]

http://uk.news.yahoo....-for-swi-45dbed5.html

There is apparently 'outrage' at this idea. Whether there is or not, what are our views on this idea? If it can be made to work efficiently, I can't see the problem.

[AlBags]

More mildly 'distasteful' than sick.
If they can make use of the power .. and don't have to burn loads more bodies to maintain it .. why not?!

[douglas9401]

As long as they don't start offering burial at sea as well I don't see a problem.

[what..the?]

it's 'reduce carbon' gone mad in my view I couldn't use that pool....if it killed me

[DTCwordfan]

"Ashes to Ashes
Earth to Earth
Heat to Water"

May as well use the heat otherwise it goes up the chimney - its not as if they are throwing bodies into the kilns rather than coal or coke.

I remember one of Private Eye's caption-photos at the cremation of Princess Margaret. The chimney had a bubble saying "One last smoke," the building another bubble saying, "It's what she would have wanted."

[Bbbananas]

In theory, sounds a sound ecological practical idea.
But in practice, not sure whether it appeals to me personally.

[craft1948]

Wouldn't bother me in the least.........

[DTCwordfan]

You could go for a swim and think "Dear old Aunty Edna, she always had a warm personality."

[Bbbananas]

I suppose it's no worse than swimming in people's wee.....

[ChuckFickens]

Do you think the heat generated in the fires at a crematorium is somehow different than the heat generated by a flame in a boiler then?

[milly143]

I don't see any problem with it at all.

The only thing I take issue with is something I just heard on the radio. The council say it will save them £14,000 a year but it will cost something around £1m to build the system, which means it will take them around 35 years to recoup the money. Is the leisure centre still going to be standing in 35 years? I doubt it.

[milly143]

Oh, scrub that. They just said it was a mistake and it would only take 4 years.

I say do it. I really can't see how it is offensive.

[DTCwordfan]

That sounds odd economics - I could have understood a 4 to 6 year payback, having discounted out inflation.

[ChuckFickens]

I'm not going out in the sun ever again, I've heard that it's the same sun that people have died under.

that would just be sick, having the same sunlight shining on me that people have died under!

[SoPerplexed]

I haven't read the article but I think it is a great idea. We need to start being more efficient with our fuel use.

[DEN53]

Doesn't seem right somehow (:0 (

[DTCwordfan]

and what about the air they have breathed in and out...........I will hold my breath for the rest of my life..

three minutes later,. aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh. Swimming pool here I come.

[tamborine]

is there a discount for cremations ?

[Backdrifter]

@sallabananas - "I suppose it's no worse than swimming in people's wee"

No it's not worse, I'd suggest it's a lot better!

To me, this is on that same spectrum of irrational reasoning as people who eat all kinds of meat except rabbit because "couldn't do it."

[AlBags]

It's not like they are chucking the dead underneath the pool and setting them afire, is it?!
Look what they do with bodies in the middle east! Burn 'em on a pile of sticks in the street in some places.

[what..the?]

no discounts but you get a free day pass to take in the warm of your relative