Belgium's plan to wash its dead down the drain: Bodies would be dissolved in caustic solution
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It could hardly be said to be the most dignified of send-offs. Undertakers in Belgium plan to eschew traditional burials and cremations and start dissolving corpses instead. The move is intended to tackle a lack of burial space and environmental concerns as 573lbs of carbon dioxide are released by each cremated corpse. Under the process, known as resomation, bodies are treated in a steel chamber with potassium hydroxide at high pressure and a temperature of 180c (350f). The raised pressure and temperature means the body reaches a similar end point as in standard cremation — just bones left to be...
Published on Wednesday 1st of September 2010 02:08:26 PM
Belgium considers proposals to dissolve bodies and flush them into sewage systems
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It could hardly be said to be the most dignified of send-offs. Undertakers in Belgium plan to eschew traditional burials and cremations and start dissolving corpses instead. The move is intended to tackle a lack of burial space and environmental concerns as 573lbs of carbon dioxide are released by each cremated corpse. Members of the EU Commission must rule on the Belgian proposal as there are concerns that residual waste could be flushed into the drainage system. In resomation the body is placed in a silk bag, itself placed within a metal cage frame. This is then loaded into a...
Published on Wednesday 1st of September 2010 02:08:26 PM
LSD Tripper Amputates, Flushes "Monster" -Containing Testicles
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The use of the drug LSD, or commonly referred to as “acid,” appears to be increasing especially among young adults in Arcata, according to an Arcata Police Department press release issued yesterday. On April 18, officers responded to a residence to assist the Arcata Mad River Ambulance with a 31-year-old male subject who had just castrated himself. Medical personnel and officers were unable to locate the subject’s testicles. He later told officers that he flushed them down the toilet as he feared they contained “monsters.” The victim, who police say had a Tennessee address, was with several friends when he...
Published on Wednesday 1st of September 2010 02:08:26 PM
One Charged in Acid Attack That Disfigured Woman
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Chicago - A woman who allegedly threw acid at another woman -- and fired a gun at her -- while also accidentally splashing her own child Wednesday afternoon on the South Side did it because she said the 39-year-old woman stabbed her in the head last week, police said. Charlis Harris, 26, of the 7700 South Essex Avenue, was charged early Friday with unlawful use of a weapon; aggravated assault-discharge firearm; heinous battery; firearm without valid FOID; registration of firearms and criminal damage to property after the incident that occurred at 12:25 p.m. in the 7800 block of South Constance...
Published on Wednesday 1st of September 2010 02:08:26 PM
Acid oceans: the 'evil twin' of climate change
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MONTEREY BAY NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY, Calif. – Far from Copenhagen's turbulent climate talks, the sea lions, harbor seals and sea otters reposing along the shoreline and kelp forests of this protected marine area stand to gain from any global deal to cut greenhouse gases. These foragers of the sanctuary's frigid waters, flipping in and out of sight of California's coastal kayakers, may not seem like obvious beneficiaries of a climate treaty crafted in the Danish capital. But reducing carbon emissions worldwide also would help mend a lesser-known environmental problem: ocean acidification. "We're having a change in water chemistry, so 20...
Published on Wednesday 1st of September 2010 02:08:26 PM
Accountant Jailed Indefinitely For Throwing Acid On Lawyers
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Accountant Jailed Indefinitely For Throwing Acid On Lawyers A former accountant with an 'obsessional hatred' of the legal profession has been jailed indefinitely for an acid attack on a team of lawyers. 17 Dec 2009 Ashok Mahajan, 55, [Pic in URL] showered a barrister, solicitor and pupil with the contents of a bottle of hydrochloric acid after his race discrimination claim was thrown out. Trainee barrister Lucy Colter suffered a burned eye as corrosive fluid dribbled down her face and melted through her tights. Former accountant Mahajan had a decade-long history of courtroom outbursts including an incident where he threw...
Published on Wednesday 1st of September 2010 02:08:26 PM
Terrorism that's personal (12 images) EDITOR'S NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT
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Terrorism that's personal (12 images) EDITOR'S NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENTText by Jim Verhulst, Times' Perspective editor | Photos by Emilio Morenatti, Associated PressWe typically think of terrorism as a political act.But sometimes it’s very personal. It wasn’t a government or a guerrilla insurgency that threw acid on this woman’s face in Pakistan. It was a young man whom she had rejected for marriage. As the United States ponders what to do in Afghanistan — and for that matter, in Pakistan — it is wise to understand both the political and the personal, that the very ignorance and illiteracy and misogyny that...
Published on Wednesday 1st of September 2010 02:08:26 PM
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