Four decades ago, less than 5 percent of American were cremated when they died. Now that figure stands at nearly half. This is how cremation actually works, and what happens to a culture when its attitude about how to memorialize the dead undergoes a rev
A new "recycling" technology called "bio-cremation" liquefies the dead, then dumps their liquid remains into city sewers where solid and liquid waste are collected as "biosludge" to be dumped on food crops. Those crops, in turn, are fed back to humans as part of the mainstream food supp...
View full post on Youtube Perhaps unsurprisingly, this process has not really taken off. It’s slower. The technology is more expensive: A stainless-steel pressurized unit can cost from $175,000 for a basic unit to $500,000 for a high-end unit, while a cremation unit costs about $110...