missing a trick

There was an article in the Cambridge News on the 3rd Jan about what they called Sci Fi funerals.

Bit of a morbid subject this but well how do we deal with people who die, we all will one day so at Cambridge Crematorium they are looking at the future to a more commercial approach to hadling death. Yes thats right given these straightened times they are looking at making more money out of death.

Currently we have burial and cremation both long established methods but are they green enough! Hmmnn, well apparently those folks in the good old USA have been looking at this says the paper and have come up with another couple of greener methods that they have begun using there.

Hold onto your stomachs now, method one involves freezing to remove moisture then crushing to a fine powder which can be composted, method two involves dissolving in an alkali to get a green brown liquid didnt say what happens to that. Do you still get the body back as it were as with ashes or will we end up saying our final goodbyes when the curtain closes.

Now I have to admit I am a bit old fashioned here, making money out of death is another case of "we are all in this together" even when you are dead or grieving for the loss of a loved one. As for the two methods that are being looked at, are we getting to a stage where once the coffin has gone the body becomes the property of the crematorium to do with as they will in whatever manner that might raise a few more pounds. Are we there already.

Got me wondering though, sci fi films are so often closer than you think in the end, anyone else remember that film Soylent Green from the 1960's. And yes they are thinking about a cafe at the crematorium.