Monday, February 20, 2006

Liquid Nitrogen

Long time ago, I read somewhere in the papers that scientists somewhere in the world were trying out different burial options. They dipped a dead cow into a tank of liquid nitrogen for a sufficient amount of time and with a mere tap, disintegrated the cow into smithereens. Priests have given their approval as the remains now becomes “dust” and fits into biblical principles of “dust to dust”.

This has fascinated me so much since cremating uses a lot of energy and takes hours.

Hence, I’ve come up with the most beneficial/practical way of burial. First, donate all your organs if they are still in good condition. Then, feed your flesh to the animal like somewhere in Tibet I think, where they feed your flesh to the vultures (you are, after all, just another vulture’s next meal by that time). Finally, the remainder of your remains will be dipped into liquid nitrogen and your dust buried in your back lawn under a tree to nourish the tree.
I pity the chap who’d need to feed the vultures though. What a horrible job.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

yeah right..and then the possibility of contaminating others might arise such as mad cow disease...