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Here in Georgia Funeral directors are seriously looking into alternative methods of corpse disposal due to the bad publicity this whole affair has generated. There is a new method called "water reduction" (or "tissue digestion" if you are speaking about livestock.) In a few hours the equipment can dissolve the tissues of a corpse and reduce it to 2 or 3 percent of its body weight. What remains is a pile of decollagenated bones that can be crumbled in one's fingers. Everything else has been turned into a sterile coffee colored liquid that can go right down the drain. This method makes good sense since it destroys pathogens and prions and does not pollute the air like incinerators do. And since no natural gas is used it is about 10 times cheaper than incineration. (Yes.. all this I learned in the book Stiff.)
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