Having your body shattered like a frozen liquid Terminator is good for the Earth

There are a spate of means to deal with a person ’s body after he or she is done using it . Their last remains can be buried , burned , put in tree diagram , or donated to science . But one Swedish company has a different approach to sending hoi polloi off to their terminal reinforcement . immobilise dry . Just like the liquid T-1000 in Terminator 2 . It turns out to be one of the greenest ways to go .

It turn out that traditional burying takes a bell on the environment . There ’s the casket , which is either metallic element or woodwind instrument , expectant , and sometimes finished with toxic stuff . Since many coffins deteriorate , leave alone unsightly hollows in an otherwise beautiful cemetary , many cemetaries demand vaults . Those hurdle expend tons of concrete that has to be made and transported . The process of getting the torso ready also has an environmental wallop . About 827,060 Imperial gallon of embalming fluid are used per year , so that even get the torso quick took metre . Each cremation take enough energy to drive almost five thousand miles , and the combined event of all cremation releases thousands of pounds of mercury into the atmosphere .

Promessa , in Sweden , has come up with a method acting of interment that contradict the spoilt aspects of the disposal of remains . They want to freeze human bodies , then shatter them into a million pieces . The body is chilled to around negative 18 degree Anders Celsius . Once it ’s stale enough , it ’s submerged in fluid nitrogen . As the body becomes colder , it gets more brickly . Once it ’s brittle enough , it ’s shocked with soundwaves that crumble it into powder .

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The powder still count about as much as a human body , so the next footfall is remove the largest component of the human body ; piss . Powder is put in a vacuum bedroom . H2O boils instantly in a void , so the water steam out of the organic structure . With it goes about 70 % of the body ’s stack . What ’s left over is the organic cloth of the body , mixed together with a metallic element parts – such as pace makers or other medical gimmick – and that troublesome mercury . The metal is separate out and the powder desexualize , leaving the pulverization behind .

From there the company recommends a cornstarch coffin and a plot that will allow the remains to twist into compost within a yr and one-half . No additives , hardwood coffin , or immense cemetary plots . Also no word on whether the sound that ’s used to shatter the consistence is the Terminator stem .

ViaPromessa , Green Burial , andThe Soko .

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