Poor poor Belgium.

Belgium's plan to wash its dead down the drain: Bodies would be dissolved in caustic solution... and flushed into the sewer

By Allan Hall

UK Daily Mail

It could hardly be said to be the most dignified of send-offs.

Undertakers in Belgium plan to eschew traditional burials and cremations and start dissolving corpses instead.

The move is intended to tackle a lack of burial space and environmental concerns as 573lbs of carbon dioxide are released by each cremated corpse.

Under the process, known as resomation, bodies are treated in a steel chamber with potassium hydroxide at high pressure and a temperature of 180c (350f).

The raised pressure and temperature means the body reaches a similar end point as in standard cremation — just bones left to be crushed up — in two to three hours.

Six states in America have passed legislation to allow resomation and the Scottish company behind the technology says it is in talks to allow the process in the UK.

Although the ashes can be recycled in waste systems, the residue from the process can also be put in urns and handed over to relatives of the dead like normal ashes from crematorium farewells.

Resomation Ltd was formed in east Glasgow in 2007 and has been in talks with the UK government about using the technology in Britain.

The company says on its website: 'The process needs to be approved in each country and/or state before resomation can take place.

'In the UK discussions have already been held with the relevant Ministers and departments within Whitehall in order to progress the use of resomation in the UK.

'Elsewhere across the globe this is a work in progress.'

Sandy Sullivan, founder of The Resomation Company said: 'Resomation offers a new, innovative approach which uses less energy and emits significantly less greenhouse gasses than cremation.

'I am getting a lot of requests from families and we hope it will become legal in Scotland within the year.

'Burial space is running out and I have had lots of people contact me whose loved ones have chosen resomation.

'It's a highly sensitive subject but I think the public are ready for it.'

The name ‘Resomation’ comes from the Greek word ‘Resoma’ meaning rebirth of the human body.

Members of the EU Commission must rule on the Belgian proposal as there are concerns that residual waste could be flushed into the drainage system.

Belgian undertakers hope to have the greenlight within three months.

In resomation the body is placed in a silk bag, itself placed within a metal cage frame. This is then loaded into a Resomator.

The machine is filled with a mixture of water and potassium hydroxide.

The end result is a small quantity of green-brown tinted liquid containing amino acids, peptides, sugars and salts and soft, porous white bone remains which are easily crushed.

The white ash can then be returned to the next of kin of the deceased.

The liquid can be recycled back to the ecosystem by being applied to a memorial garden or forest or simply put into the sewerage system.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1292778/Belgium-considers-proposals-dissolve-bodies-flush-sewage-systems.html?ITO=1490#ixzz0tJ8vOh3R

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And where, oh where?, is His Most Catholic Majesty, King Albert II of Belgium in the midst of this?

Comments

[Atlanta Catholic]

It looks like the devil's minions are quite pleased to attack us coming into this life as well as our bodies leaving this life. This time it is under the phony guise of helping the ecosystem. Evil ideas do belong in a sewer not our loved ones.

When we can inject burning saline solution into the womb to murder an unborn baby,resomation sounds just like another type of attack from Satan on the body which was once the living temple of the Holy Spirit.

Read the simple messages in Belgium of the apparitions of Our Lady of Beaurang and Our Lady of Banneux. "This spring is reserved for all nations" "I have come to relieve suffering" Notice the big difference. The father of lies wants us to constantly relive pain and suffering. Our Lady of Beaurang and Banneux came to *relieve* pain and suffering. Pray the Rosary.

[Shin]

Everytime I go to this site I get the popup 'a username and password are requested by danielcoble.com'

[James]

Wow, Joseph, so at the behest of the Vatican II Popes, Bishops from Los Angeles, Portland, Boston, and Dublin were forced to recruit and ordain homosexual priests? You people want it both ways: you lament the Pope's powerlessness in getting something done about various bishops' nonsense AND spin conspiracies about the near-absolute power Popes exert in priestly recruitment and ordination. Would you please pick one narrative (weak or powerful) and stick with it?

Maybe you and Dan Brown should write a book together...you could probably land a publishing company if you could somehow throw in a reference or two about Opus Dei, the Inquisition, and the Illuminati. Hmm, and now that I think of it, maybe you could explore the very likely probability that Pope John Paul I was poisoned because he wouldn't go along with this homosexual plan.

Conspiracy thinking, without good evidence and sound reason, never elevates anything or anybody.

[James]

I have a question for you canon law folks: Could the Catholic Church annul the marriages of couples where the husband or wife is gay/lesbian if that husband or wife never acted out his/her inclination? Furthermore, if the couple in question had numerous children and an active sex life existed, on what grounds could the Church annul such a marriage? I don't think it could/would solely on that criteria.

I think the same goes for homosexual clergy. On what grounds, if any, could the Church laicize a non-homosexually practicing, homosexually-inclined priest or bishop? I understand it could forbid any from entering the priesthood, as I believe it has now, but to treat faithful priests in such a manner that USA Joe suggests seems dishonorable. Again, I am not refering to priests who act out their homosexual inclinations. I believe then the Church could/should laicize the offending priest/bishop.

This is an open question for those knowing Canon Law. And I would assume that you'd go along with Canon Law like I would if the answer doesn't match what you want, right?

The source of most heresy and evil in the world is sin, disobedience to God and legitimate authority (pride), and self-love/regard, not homosexuality--although many homosexuals clearly exhibit this as much as the rest of us.

[anthony rowe]

i just had a post deleted, it was there, now its not... weird

[Atlanta Catholic]

James,

I am not a Canon scholar but I think the answer should be simple. If the priest being ordained fully knew that he was behaving and thinking contrary to Church teaching, then his Ordination to the priesthood would be invalid. Don't Catholic priests take vows or oaths to uphold the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church?

A vow or oath spoken publicly to hide an actively private rebellion should not be considered valid. The problem is getting someone to admit this. When Bishop Tod Brown had Father Doug Cook who knows Canon Law, instruct a couple to take an oath to hide the disobedience of ex-priest Rod Stephens, a faithful priest instructed us that any oath taken to hide an evil is invalid. The same might and should apply to the Ordination of priests who have false motives.

[Atlanta Catholic]

Loyolalaw 98,

I had a thoughtful response to Joseph-USA's comments to me and they were also in context with the topic. I now see that you removed it. Joseph reminds me of the fiery St. Jerome before he learned to curb his anger and fury over injustices. It was through God's compassionate grace that St. Jerome learned to regret his harshness in expressing himself.

I know that you are privy to posts that we do not see but I would have loved to respond to him. Maybe you would prefer that I also refrain from posting. I will accept that if this is the case.

[Ed Gazvoda]

The devil's minions would never choose alkaline hydrolysis as a final disposition option, as cremation and burial pose public health risks to the living, especially the unborn.

The percentage of the world's population choosing cremation is climbing at an alarming rate. The deceased impose an increasing and heavy burden on the living. Cremation is not sustainable. It fails to honor the world in which one lived.

The intense heat releases numerous toxins, including highly hazardous mercury vapors. Each and every incinerated amalgam tooth filing (silver in color) contains .74 grams of mercury, an element second only to radioactive materials in terms of being hazardous. Cremation releases hundreds of thousands of pounds of mercury into our air, every year.

Scientists for the United States Environmental Protection Agency report that over one-hundred-thousand babies are born each year in the United States, with so much in utero exposure to mercury that they are at risk of brain damage. Many crematories are located in residential neighborhoods. Ask yourself, who stands the greatest chance of being negatively affected by one’s vaporized remains? Clearly, those who would be harmed the most live in the towns nearest the crematory. It makes no sense at all to continue to spend to harm the living and the unborn, in light of the fact that a better option now exists.

Commingled Cremains
The cremationist, after exposing a body to temperatures in excess of 1,600 degrees Fahrenheit for a couple hours, collects what little is left of the charred body, about 4% of the body. The incineration process necessarily leaves residue of cremated bodies in the combustion chamber. It is legal for crematories to return commingled ashes of bodies, as much as a cup in some states.

What happens to the rest of the body?
About 96% of a cremated body is discharged from a smokestack into our air. Cremationists use our air as the final destination for billions of pounds of deceased humans. A human body is turned into pollution. On average, each person is reduced to hundreds of pounds of carbon dioxide, floating bits of body particles, toxins, water vapor, carcinogens, and other undesirable substances.

100 Million Deaths per Year
The percentage of the world's population choosing cremation is climbing at an alarming rate. The deceased impose an increasing and heavy burden on the living. Cremation is not sustainable. It fails to honor the world in which one lived.