You'll like this one, remember that scene in Terminator 2 where T1000 gets doused in liquid nitrogen and smashed into a bunch of little pieces?  Well, apparently, so did a group of Swedish scientists who were looking for an alternative to burial and cremation.

What they do is freeze-dry your loved one with liquid nitrogen and shake them until they break up into powder, except for any dental fillings (they still do those?) or surgical implants, which are picked up by a magnet. 

The first reason they want to do this is that Brits are running low on burial grounds for full burial. The second is because cremation lets off emissions, and can also let off mercury from fillings, and those emissions fall under UK environmental regulation, and the cost of the special filters required would be prohibitive for many places that cremate bodies.

For now, its being considered by British government officials as an alternative for burial and cremation, as those are the only two legal ways to put someone to rest.

Have we really come to the point in our global warming hysteria that we're actually considering turning our deceased into human Space Food Sticks?  Give me strength.

Posted by: doubleplusundead at 02:38 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment
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1 Ok, so I can't bear the thought of burial (thanks ever so, Andrew Marvell), but this is not exactly the first alternative I will consider.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at October 28, 2007 02:54 PM (rynQ/)

2 Sorry, but when I think freeze dried, I think Space Food Sticks.

Posted by: doubleplusundead at October 28, 2007 02:57 PM (1WH/q)

3

I think it's kind of cool.  Hey, if it's good enough for Ted Williams...

My kids will be happy if I choose this over my previously described wishes -- to be exploded at sea in my sailboat.  Viking go boom!

Posted by: mesablue at October 28, 2007 05:57 PM (KCOdQ)

4 And, I don't care about the green aspect -- I'll be dead, won't I?

Posted by: mesablue at October 28, 2007 05:59 PM (KCOdQ)

5 Forget your kids, a Viking funeral would kick ass!

Posted by: doubleplusundead at October 28, 2007 08:08 PM (1WH/q)

6 You get: 50 quatloos for the "Space Food Sticks" reference, with a bonus 10% awarded for the blog name.

Double-plus good, indeed!

-- A Former Space Food Stick Ingester.

Posted by: wrymouth at October 29, 2007 11:41 PM (oYZIa)

7 Thanks!

I just read that article and my first thought, 'My God, they're making them into Space Food Sticks!'

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