Cryomation Cryomator

And how big of a carbon footprint is there for manufacturing liquid nitrogen and shipping it to the Cryomater for use vs using a standard gas incinerator?

wow... this is just... not even news, this is an abomination.

" Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." Albert Einstein

Starchild, how is this any worse than lighting someone's dead body on fire and increasing the heat until they are incinerated into nothing??? Although the thought of it is a little graphic, it is death after all... Not much pleasant about it

Why is there such a preoccupation with the disposal of the remains? It was just a few POPSCI articles ago of the suggested disposal by liquefaction.lol

I think baring someone is just fine.

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I am just so Qurious!

The next generation of environmental burials will cut you into 50 pieces, put you trough a meat grinder and feed you to livestock, allowing nothing to be wasted. Complete recycling. Cradle to Cradle. The Future is coming and it is wonderful!!!?

well don't our dead bodies fertilize the ground and then help more trees to grow, therefore giving us more oxygen and less carbon dioxide? I think that's probably good, but that's just the opinion of a 14 year old

-Knock knock
-Who's there?
-The Doctor.
-Doctor Who?
-Yes

I'm with Alanam on this one. Sure, you're not spewing your carbonized remains into the air, but bear in mind that this system still uses energy to produce nitrogen and operate its electrical and mechanical components - most of which still comes from coal-burning powerplants. You're just substituting combustion in the crematorium for combustion by some distant generator.

If I'm going to be frozen when I die, I'll pay to keep my freeze-dried husk in storage. By the time they figure out how to reverse the cellular/tissue damage from cryonic freezing, who knows what other fun scientific advances they will have come up with? One way to get to the future....

this is no abomination fool this is progessjust because you may belive some mangic guy will come and awake all the dead at the end of the world and thus we need our bodies preserved, well buddy even burial doesnt do that to good bones can decay

I see no problem with this when i die i think this is how i want to go. Now they just need a way to remove all the heavy metals and toxins and bam good fertilizer. Id feel better if my worthless carcasss was recycled

Is it possible I take Grandpa & Grandma and super heat their remains and make glass. I think it would be very nice to make some lamps or a fish bowl! :)

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I am just so Qurious!

The amount of carbon released by the body upon cremation can't amount to a hill of beans compared to driving for 2 to four weeks. And since human bodies are produced from a food chain with plants at the bottom, the carbon released is pretty much net zero granted the furnace does add to that.

But ultimately, this is just a gimick to make someone money and doesn't contribute much of anything to reducing the greater impact to the environment.

I believe the real impact is loss of land with those fields of grave yards. So I can see its purpose but question is 75% claim. Only way you could get that figure is if you did it via bulk, like 100 bodies at a time sort of thing.

But I guess these will be handy in dense areas, people can just load their bodies up in the truck and dump them into the disintegrator, kinda like in soylent green :)

Funny... it used to be only kings or men of honor were burned after death. Pretty soon any idiot dumb enough to cremate himself is going to get his family fined for "carbon pollution".

Mother Earth. Ha! If you want to go out of the way to make some pagan deity happy that's your horse sh!t, I intend to rot in the dirt when I die. Maybe grow an apple tree... i like apples.

OT: Seems like a fancy gimmick to me. One thing is for sure, this is by no means the "greenest way to go". I mean really... what the heck is greener that digging a hole?

When I die, my good parts are recycled and the rest is left in the illegal dump to rust and become toxins for humans to drink later from their ground water.

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Science sees no further than what it can sense.
Religion sees beyond the senses.

"Oh sure," says the guy in charge of the machine,"Here they are." As he hands you Grandpa's remains. When really he just hands you a bag of dust knowing Grandpa was processed and packaged for the Soylent Green shipment leaving that very evening.

If we did this for all humans born then in a few tens of millon of years all the carbon on earth would be tied up in human ashes. Not smart to uncycle all that carbon!

.... Wonderings to myself, in my previous comment I went to the dark side. How could I do this? Am I alive? How can I die? Why would I allow my toxin self pollute the human world? Where has my mind gone? Where is my origin, my creator?

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Science sees no further than what it can sense.
Religion sees beyond the senses.

Oh wow, I like this new modern sauna. Very nice.
Ok, yes, I will sit right here.

10 minutes later. Wow! Sure getting warm in here.

3 minutes later. Tap! Tap! On the door and yelling! Hey buddy out there, it sure is getting hot, kind of turn down the heat!

Looking at his watch, and then thinking to himself: Martha said she be here in 15 minutes.

Banging on the door! Hey let me out of here!!!!! Why is this door locked?!?!

First of all, this concept is really old news (2005) and this company is either licensed by or is clearly ripping off Promessa, a company based in Sweden.

Anyway, on to the naysayers: Liquid nitrogen is plentiful because we compress so much liquid oxygen already for medical use, and the air contains almost four times as much nitrogen as it does oxygen. Companies usually only sell a third of the liquid nitrogen they produce. So that gripe is out the window.

This process is preferable to cremation because it involves a step that removes any metals from the remains with an enormous magnet. Specifically we are talking about mercury in tooth fillings and any more the body has absorbed. I shouldn't have to tell anyone that incinerating mercury and pumping it into the air is a stupid idea, but we do it every day, and a third of mercury emissions can be traced to cremation of human remains.

What the article also doesn't mention is that end result of this process are granules similar to coffee grounds, but pinkish. They contain all the nutrients a person accumulates at the top of the food chain on this planet. The remains can be stored in an urn, or used to fertilize, say, a memorial tree. Isn't that better (and significantly more productive) than ruining a patch of ground with your stupid old bones and a bunch of toxic chemicals? What reason could you have for wanting to burn your remains and waste all the resources in your body while simultaneously adding carbon and heavy metals to the air? Spite?