#resomation

[somasandiego]

Game Of Tones Tour - Set Times

Game Of Tones Tour featuring A Distant Calm, Kardashev, Roar Like Me and Resomation - Set Times

Tonight, we have METAL. SOMA San Diego presents…

The Game Of Tones Tour featuring Resomation, Roar Like Me, Kardashev, and A Distant Calm.

Doors: 6:30 Resomation: 6:45-7:15 Roar Like Me: 7:30- 8:00 Kardashev: 8:15-8:45 A Distant Calm: 9-9:30

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[alphastage]

Crit 03/02/2014

Yh didn't really go so well, as the tutors were not so keen on having people boiled.... But told me to develop the idea, I will be keeping the deceased people idea, just scrapping the boiling.

[alphastage]

Ideas > Resomation

What is Resomation? "The body, enclosed in a silk coffin, is placed in a steel chamber along with potassium hydroxide at a pressure of 10 bar. The temperature is set at 180 °C which is 80% cooler than a standard crematorium according to biochemist Sandy Sullivan who started his company Resomation Ltd in Scotland in 2007.

The high pressure and the temperature dissolve the body in two to three hours, leaving just bones to be crushed in a similar fashion to cremation and placed in an urn. As with ecological burial, dental amalgam can be easily separated from the ash." - Source

WHO is the project for: Living/Non-Living People

WHAT does the project do: The project will create a public area where these non-living individuals are stored physically and digitally, where they can be viewed as part of Hamburg’s history. The project can achieve this by using a greener way of passing on with a process called resomation. This process uses the chemical Alkaline Hydrolysis for accelerated decomposition and does not pollute the earth as much as cremation or burial.

HOW does it relate to the site: The process can utilise the water of the river, and the by-product created from the process can be used to fertilise plants, thus bringing life to the site and also other surrounding areas.

WHAT does your project (re)present about chosen situation(s) existing and emerging in Hamburg: As Hamburg try to enhance their sustainable living programs, this project hopes to replace its predecessors as it is a more eco-friendly method of passing. It also allows Hamburg to utilise a lot of space as this method is not reliant on digging a grave.

[itstyronechan-blog]

Resomation Park concept [by] Tyrone Chan and Charles Dedman

Contact us for more info. 

[email protected]  

[email protected]

Concept developed and protected under RESOMATION PARK LIMITED. 

[itstyronechan-blog]

Some graphic design for facts about Resomation.

[findoutsomething-blog]

Having even less environmental impact: Resomation Away!!!!

So, after listening to this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k_h9g4eoAI, I did some online research trying to find out actually what happens to our carbon when we die (there's like nothing specific about it).... This led me to this article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/feb/16/healthandwellbeing.weekend2, where I read the bit about resomation. 

I found this technique very cool and intriguing and I want to know more! It seems from my first quick, non-in-depth reading of this process that this would be the least environmentally destructive way to deal with a deceased body. But I still haven't done a whole lot of research so I am not entirely sure...

Here is a site I am going to peruse some more: http://www.resomation.com/. This one too: http://www.biocremation.info/.

This seems so cool to me and I am shocked that it is not more well-known. Nor is it even legal in some states, apparently. Again...I don't know all this for sure. I have to do the research now. And you should too!!!!

[thegeekyninja-blog]

"Resomation"

Today my dad showed me an article about resomation. Ahh, a new word to add to my vocabulary (but doesn't exist in Firefox's dictionary apparently).

Also known as 'alkaline hydrolysis', resomation is a "greener" alternative to cremation, where the body is liquefied in a heated alkaline solution. The very first of its kind was installed in a US funeral home recently. Resomation releases a third less greenhouse gas than cremation, and allows for mercury and other harmful substances from the body to be separated, recovered and disposed of more safely.

How does it work? Well, the body is immersed in a mixture of water and potassium hydroxide which is pressurised and heated to 180 degrees C for about 3 hours. The dissolved body bits are then poured into the municipal water system. Bones are removed from the unit and crushed into fragments, much like cremation.

This is legal in only 7 states of the US.

So, basically, the dissolved body is floating around in the sewage system. Pretty cool huh, yet very disturbing, knowing that there are bits of someone floating around under you. Which kinda leads to this: What if Singapore legalises this? What with NEWater and all, so we won't only be drinking our own waste material, but also dissolved corpses. Also, is it respectful to the dead, especially here in an Asian society where we're oh so traditional? Thoughts?

[tumblrinthedark]

Belgium is considering whether to allow a new method of disposing of human remains that is being billed as a greener, less carbon-intensive alternative to cremation.