Eco-friendly Belgians would dissolve you, send to sewer system
(NEWSER) - Researchers in Belgium want to flush you down the toilet. A group of undertakers say dead people ought to be dissolved, flushed, and sent to water treatment plants—all in the name of eco-efficiency. They tell the Telegraph that the procedure, which is being studied by the EU, beats cremation and burial, hands down. Odd? Yes, but certainly not unheard of—the method is already legal in six American states. Consider it the revenge of the goldfish. More»
