I just noticed this. It would seem a sad ending !
It would appear the idea is less pollution.
The headline makes it sounds so offputting ā¦ but in essence, water cremation sounds a good idea. Iād certainly go for it.
Quote from article:
It does not contain any tissue or DNA and is described by scientists as a brown colour resembling ātea or an aleā.
Sounds weird and sloshing liquified bodies into the sewerage system feels wrong. But as the article points out lots of unpleasant stuff goes into the sewerage system from mortuaries and hospitals. The article did not explain if the process required less energy than cremation or less environmental damage. Apparently this is a thing in other countries.
I was reckoning on pure cremation. Looks like I might have the option of pure liquidation now.
Shiver me Timbers.
The thought that The Mother in Law remains.
Would pop out, at the turn of a tap, of drinking water.
Hikes >> Alcoholism. 
No way I canāt swim
It still sounds better than human composting ā¦ though when you think about it there is nothing more gross than lying buried and rotting in the ground with munching maggots.
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Thas most likely more fun than being slit / gutted and pumped full of really harsh stuff, tossed in a hole in the ground and covered with clumps of hard clay and rocks.
How great boiled peanuts are!
Maybe value the ground over the bodies & juicing it up, mixing in the sea water offshore at high tide a bit.
Growing old and being invited to the party sux!
Why not put dead bodies in a hogging machine and spread the remains on a field of potatoesā¦Now that really would be environmentally friendly, and you would come back as a potatoā¦Wait a minuteā¦ 
I think some forum members have already been reincarnatedā¦
Wotā¦ 
ā¦Youāre askinā for trouble with a Capital T Laddie.
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Obviously not you Mayā¦ 
While scattering my mother in lawās ashes a couple or so weeks ago, most of which would have been the coffin anyway, I found the amount actually scattered to be remarkably little. Most of our bodies are water, and the rest would break down chemically soon enough.
I recall that my fathers ashes in their urn (not a fancy metal urn either) weighed about 6-7 kilos. Seemed heavy. My motherās were marginally lighter.
The bigger problem was were to scatter them as there are increasingly restrictions on this. Plus I didnāt want to do the scattering somewhere too public. Or leave too evident a pile of ash anywhere.
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We scattered them at the crem, in the same spot as her husbands had been (over 40 years ago). It was amazing and indeed quaint, given modern technology, how all the records of death, burial and ash scattering plots were still in big old handwritten ledgers. Was remarkably easy to find where his ashes were.
Crematoriums are pretty good ā¦ when my mum died in 2000 they kindly looked up their records to find the plot where dad had been put back in 1972 and popped them in together ā¦ and then once again in 2009 when my eldest brother died they checked their records and popped him in with them both.
Iāve never been keen on rotting graves even though some headstones can be rather impressive.
We buried my motherās ashes in her grandmotherās plot, and half my fatherās ashes were sprinkled around his familyās plot somewhere in Poland (surreptitiously so they, my siblings, didnāt have to payā:woozy_face:). My brother kept hold of the other half of the ashes, and duly lost themā:roll_eyes:
So neither of my parents have got a marker of any sort. My second cousin, who died a couple of years ago also didnāt want any stone, plaque or anything. So he hasnāt.
I also donāt want all the faff. But then again, it not be down to me. Iād rather the money spend on a funeral and anything attached to it was spent on having a party or holiday.
Can anyone remember that storyline in Coronation Street where Vera paid an artist to paint a portrait of Jack ā¦ a bit morbid as it couldnāt be finished until when Jack died and his ashes were mixed into the final varnish.
Creepy ā¦ the same as taxidermist heads.
I wouldnāt want one of those either though Iām sure one day some commericial entrepeneur will offer the service to a grieiving relative.
My Cremation has been ordered and paid for many years ago,and My ashes will be buried in My Youngest Daughters back garden under a rosebush/treeā¦then I expect They will All have a good drink,a wee greet,and a bit of a singsongā¦RIP. 
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Do you remember a story of how a young woman (must have been somewhere between 17 to 22) had her pet horse stuffed and kept it in the hall (iirc) at home?