What to do with the body after death?
Source:Are you Thinking about ? No matter how unpleasant did not seem you this question today, death and everything connected with it — an extremely relevant topic of scientific research. However, most other scientists concerned with the disposal of human bodies after death. The fact that embalming is required fairly large amounts of toxic liquid, but because of the cremation are released into the atmosphere large amounts of carbon dioxide. In the result, the usual funeral harm the environment. But is it possible to change it? Results , which were presented during the annual meeting of the American Association for the advancement of science February 16, indicate that Yes.
What could be the funeral in the future?
The Authors of the study believe that composting, also known as the natural organic restoration is an environmentally safe method of disposal of human remains. To such conclusion scientists came after a series of experiments with six bodies, which were decomposed among wood chips and other organic material. As writes the edition , microbiologist ecologist Jennifer Debruyne from the University of Tennessee, who was not involved in the study, said such “burial” option.
It Should be noted that in 2019, Washington became the first state to legalize natural organic reduction as the option of burial. Recently it became known that the company in Seattle called , will soon begin to accept the body for composting. And for that reason. So, in the course of the experiment six of the bodies were placed in the vessel with the plant material, which are regularly rotated to ensure optimum conditions for decomposition. The result was not long in coming — approximately four to seven weeks, the germs turned the bodies into skeletons.
photo Katrina spade of the company Recompose. In her hands the compost from cows (package, left) and materials used in the process — straw, wood chips and alfalfa (package, right)
However, the most surprising in this story is that we already knew — animal carcasses long ago turned into fertile soil in a similar way. Just like in the cartoon “the lion King” when his father Mufasa told his son Simba about the circle of life and how everything in our world is interconnected. For this reason, the idea to apply a similar method to the human is quite reasonable. Besides, this method is able to destroy dangerous pathogens — the heat generated by the microbes during the decomposition process — additional benefits of new “funeral”. The researchers call this process “automatic sterilization”. However, prions — a special class of infectious agents, proteins which have abnormal structure — do not die when exposed to high temperatures. Recall that prions become a zombie disease of deer in Canada and the USA, and also cause mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
However, there is no question that a new method of disposal of the remains should be widely distributed is not. As the journalists of the American media, legislators in other States are now considering this method. If this method will be widely used in the United States, perhaps in the future other countries will take note.
So the utilization of bodies in the center Recompose
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