What Are We Going To Do With All The Dead Bodies?

[sunny-dave]

After the (very good) Rowson cartoon, this is a fascinating look at the present/future way we deal with cadavers :

https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5233/the-business-of-death-in-a-growing-world

It's a long read - but I found it fascinating.

Dave

[atalanta]

I used to fancy the idea of promession, but I have heard that there might be a body farm, somewhere in the north of England, before too long. I really like the idea of my remains lying in a body farm, to assist forensic scientists investigating different kinds of death.

[gness]

When you have to say goodbye....
Say it in a little pie!

Love that, Dave.....when my son was little he asked if burial and cremation were the only options......
Seems he preferred pickling.....(no comments!)

[Old_Geezer]

Soylent Green

[DTCwordfan]

crushed and used to repair the UK's potholes sounds good - at least it's useful...they are doing it with plastic bottles in Cumbria now, so why not we lot?..... Perhaps they would give out a lot of free airmiles as a reward for volunteering - and we could end up at Heathrow or Gatwick (No to Stansted as they host Ryan Air)...?

[jno]

everyone in a Rowson cartoon always looks like a cadaver, he's dreadful.

[jim360]

I'm disappointed that the cartoon takes away all the opportunity for tasteless jokes along the lines of "perhaps Jonathan Swift had the right idea" or "didn't Monty Python come up with a solution one time?"

[whiskeryron]

I have it on good authority that soon one must seek permission before dying. Only if you were born here will you be given permission to die here, everyone else must go elswhere to die. Anyone ignoring this directive will be forcibly kept alive until a better alternative is found.

[jno]

you're not allowed to die in Pariament, WR

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/did-you-know-its-illegal-to-die-298718

[Eleena]

Dave, that was fascinating!

[NoMercy]

That was an interesting read. Hopefully society, including all religious groups, will embrace more modern and greener ways to dispose of human corpses.