What to do with dead bodies?

[Downside]

no i havn't got a dead body to dispose off (yet) i was thinking more along the lines of what to do with dead bodys in general. As i see it now most people are either buried or incinerated. Which to me just seems like a complete waste, as we cant keep burying people in the ground forever as we will eventually run out of space and incinerating bodys is energy consuming.

The way i see it is why not turn incinerating bodys into producing energy IE imagine a coal powerplant but instead of coal you put in dead bodys, this way we could solve the energy crisis, save the land and give people a proper sending off as instead of lowering the body into the ground you could lower it into a chute which leads directly to the powerplant. Everybody wins or is some glaring oversight i have missed?

whats your thoughts on this would you mind your corpse being burnt so help others or would you prefer a more traditional sending off?

or am i just insane? (actually dont answer that)

 

[Dommyboy]

First of all you could fix the title to dead bodies. Do you actually know the energetic properties of coal? You can burn things to produce energy but coal produces large amount of different types, corpses are a different aspect. They can give off gas but not much else.

We could always use mass graves but have them more well positioned like in mid 1900's in America.

 

[corporate_gamer]

no i havn't got a dead body to dispose off (yet) i was thinking more along the lines of what to do with dead bodys in general. As i see it now most people are either buried or incinerated. Which to me just seems like a complete waste, as we cant keep burying people in the ground forever as we will eventually run out of space and incinerating bodys is energy consuming.

The way i see it is why not turn incinerating bodys into producing energy IE imagine a coal powerplant but instead of coal you put in dead bodys, this way we could solve the energy crisis, save the land and give people a proper sending off as instead of lowering the body into the ground you could lower it into a chute which leads directly to the powerplant. Everybody wins or is some glaring oversight i have missed?

whats your thoughts on this would you mind your corpse being burnt so help others or would you prefer a more traditional sending off?

or am i just insane? (actually dont answer that)

For a start i dont think there is enough dead bodies create worldwide to keep even one giant coal powerplant operating 24/7. Also the energy expended in transport wouldnt make it entirely pointless, if not wasteful.

i think cremations the way to go really. but dont keep them in a jar, throw them off a cliff or into their favourite pub or something.

 

[Downside]

For a start i dont think there is enough dead bodies create worldwide to keep even one giant coal powerplant operating 24/7. Also the energy expended in transport wouldnt make it entirely pointless, if not wasteful.

i think cremations the way to go really. but dont keep them in a jar, throw them off a cliff or into their favourite pub or something.

Good point but they could always have a sort of storage depot before being delivered to the plant and 1000's of people die each day and it doens't just have to be humans bodies it could be animals to.

 

[Jaythulhu]

Soylent green?

 

[Amnestic]

Launch them into orbit in a rocket pre-set to split apart once it reaches a certain distance above the Earth.
Have them all burn up in the atmosphere.

Sure, it's not very economical in regards to actual costs of sending the rocket up, transporting the bodies to the launch site and whatnot, but we're burning bodies in the atmosphere for kicks and giggles. We don't *need* to be economical.

 

[Jamanticus]

For a start i dont think there is enough dead bodies create worldwide to keep even one giant coal powerplant operating 24/7. Also the energy expended in transport wouldnt make it entirely pointless, if not wasteful.

i think cremations the way to go really. but dont keep them in a jar, throw them off a cliff or into their favourite pub or something.

Into their favorite pub? Wouldn't that get a few of the pub-goers rather annoyed at the pieces of ash floating in their drinks?

I agree on cremations, though- it saves space, plus you don't have to worry about the cost of refrigeration or embalming.

 

[Labyrinth]

I like the idea of medical research, transplants and the like. What Science doesn't use of me is going to be wrapped in a shroud and buried, sans coffin, in some forest somewhere. No funeral, no viewing, none of that shit, but one hell of a wake.

 

[Parattchi]

no i havn't got a dead body to dispose off (yet) i was thinking more along the lines of what to do with dead bodys in general. As i see it now most people are either buried or incinerated. Which to me just seems like a complete waste, as we cant keep burying people in the ground forever as we will eventually run out of space and incinerating bodys is energy consuming.

The way i see it is why not turn incinerating bodys into producing energy IE imagine a coal powerplant but instead of coal you put in dead bodys, this way we could solve the energy crisis, save the land and give people a proper sending off as instead of lowering the body into the ground you could lower it into a chute which leads directly to the powerplant. Everybody wins or is some glaring oversight i have missed?

whats your thoughts on this would you mind your corpse being burnt so help others or would you prefer a more traditional sending off?

or am i just insane? (actually dont answer that)

For a start i dont think there is enough dead bodies create worldwide to keep even one giant coal powerplant operating 24/7. Also the energy expended in transport wouldnt make it entirely pointless, if not wasteful.

i think cremations the way to go really. but dont keep them in a jar, throw them off a cliff or into their favourite pub or something.

Oh man. I just got the mental image of some fat bloke sitting in the pub drinking beer when a dude comes in and throws a dead guy's ashes at him.....

 

[DannyDamage]

Hmmmm, overpopulation and slowly running out of food, cemetery overpopulation problems, someone should pilot a "Feed The Future" scheme.

2 birds, 1 stone.

 

[Copter400]

Feed them to pigs. Any Guy Ritchie fans?

 

[Eyclonus]

no i havn't got a dead body to dispose off (yet) i was thinking more along the lines of what to do with dead bodys in general. As i see it now most people are either buried or incinerated. Which to me just seems like a complete waste, as we cant keep burying people in the ground forever as we will eventually run out of space and incinerating bodys is energy consuming.

The way i see it is why not turn incinerating bodys into producing energy IE imagine a coal powerplant but instead of coal you put in dead bodys, this way we could solve the energy crisis, save the land and give people a proper sending off as instead of lowering the body into the ground you could lower it into a chute which leads directly to the powerplant. Everybody wins or is some glaring oversight i have missed?

whats your thoughts on this would you mind your corpse being burnt so help others or would you prefer a more traditional sending off?

or am i just insane? (actually dont answer that)

You do know the temperatures needed to destroy a human body right?

 

[searanox]

I'd say either use them for medical research, burn them, or "return them to the land".

 

[corporate_gamer]

For a start i dont think there is enough dead bodies create worldwide to keep even one giant coal powerplant operating 24/7. Also the energy expended in transport wouldnt make it entirely pointless, if not wasteful.

i think cremations the way to go really. but dont keep them in a jar, throw them off a cliff or into their favourite pub or something.

Into their favorite pub? Wouldn't that get a few of the pub-goers rather annoyed at the pieces of ash floating in their drinks?

I agree on cremations, though- it saves space, plus you don't have to worry about the cost of refrigeration or embalming.

Yeah but who cares? You're Dead.

 

[Labyrinth]

The best way to fix the world: let the hungry eat the homeless.

 

[Zallest]

Live Dead Body Puppet Theater

 

[Logan Keller]

Launch them into orbit in a rocket pre-set to split apart once it reaches a certain distance above the Earth.
Have them all burn up in the atmosphere.

Sure, it's not very economical in regards to actual costs of sending the rocket up, transporting the bodies to the launch site and whatnot, but we're burning bodies in the atmosphere for kicks and giggles. We don't *need* to be economical.

If you wanted to be economical could you not just develop an ultra-powerful cannon.

 

[Chickenlittle]

That would work. Hell, while we're going for "teh lulz", why not just build a giant slingshot to a volcano?

 

[Downside]

That would work. Hell, while we're going for "teh lulz", why not just build a giant slingshot to a volcano?

or why not just skin all the bodies and turn them into coats?

see dead bodies do have their uses

 

[Landslide]

This is a cultural problem more than a physical one. Graveyards are "full" only in regards to the square footage we allot each corpse. And it's a lot. I'd imagine (were you of the mind) you could fit many times the number of bodies into the same sized graveyard if you didn't try to separate the bodies, and more if you did away with caskets.

Mass graves are very efficient, if a little culturally and morally bankrupt.