Nightly Open Thread
The latest trend in eco-friendly Swedish burial methods? Freezing your dead body to -18 C, immersing you in liquid nitrogen, and then shattering you with sweet, sweet sound waves into a fine powder. Water is removed in a vacuum chamber, what’s left gets put in a coffin made out of cornstarch and buried, and you can pass into the hereafter knowing that you went out like the T-1000.
Okay, I might be overselling that a bit.
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Optical media…begone!
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I’d rather have my eventual corpse put to good use, rather than just being buried or cremated. Fertiliser, maybe? Maybe medical science?
T-1000 has “died” by being molten in a furnace.
By the way, it is not eco-friendly… I wonder how much energy you must waste with all this process. Also, how can the bacteria feed on me without a drop of water left?
Better leave me be (or not be) to rot in a coffin and, thus, contributing to a better world by recycling myself into inorganic matter.
I know how T-1000 died. But he also got frozen and shattered at one point in the film. Hence the (admittedly somewhat “off”) reference.
As to burial, I’ve always been a fan of the no embalming/untreated pine box concept. That, or I can go for the “turn my life around, live a life of ideal witness, die, get canonized, and get found to be incorrupted in state ten five centuries later” option, but somehow I think the pine box is more within my reach.
I actually was an alter boy at the tomb of Saint Katherine Drexel (although she wasn’t canonized when I was there).
One of only 11 American saints, and one of 2 that was born here.
Origin Museum: Neat! Also: jealous!
Handshakes: Embalming is one of the main “eco-unfriendly” parts of modern burial…that and the fancy, treated-wood caskets. I’m not exactly a green nut, but I don’t particularly see a need for any of that. (And frankly, I don’t want a viewing at my funeral.)
No embalming? Wouldn’t the viewing stink to high heaven?
I want a viewing at my funeral–I have fond childhood memories of being morbidly curious looking at the corpse of some distant great-uncle I never met. I hope to pass that tradition on to my great-neices and nephews. 🙂
I’m more affected by some old “joke” that apparently actually happened in my Dad’s hometown. Some old fella passed on, and at his viewing was evidently done up quite nicely in the casket. Which, I’m told, prompted the widow to exclaim (loudly enough for the whole of the church to hear): “That isn’t my Nestor. Nestor never looked that good for one day in his life!”
LOL!