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[Brakke]

Leave it to California to #disrupt holes in the ground.

 

[NESpowerhouse]

There's gonna be cults built around drinking dead people.

Consume their essence, gain their lifeforce.

 

[Syriel]

Consume their essence, gain their lifeforce.

That only works if you behead them with a very sharp sword, with Queen playing in the background.

 

[Brakke]

Jesus fucking goddamnit, entrepreneurs. Learn how humans speak.

What excites me is that this is a 'Black Swan' opportunity to ideate and usher in new traditions of aquacentric memorializations.

- Qico Founder, Jevon Truesdale​

https://qicoinc.com/about-us/

 

[Dommo]

"I watched them liquefy the dead so they could be fed intravenously to the living."

Just another step towards AI-fuelled dystopia I guess.

 

[jett]

Burial is the stupidest shit.

Sign me up for liqueification.

 

[ahoyhoy]

This some HH Holmes shit.

 

[Brakke]

Lord almighty this doesn’t mean ANYTHING:

The Fire to Water™ method, itself, is unique in that it incorporates our corporate vision of making fire cremation technology a thing of the past.​

They should really Fire

Spoiler

to Water™

whoever does their copy.

Anyway I found a render of their thing:

I suppose the idea is to turn *you* into the jelly this donut is missing?

 

[louiedog]

Good. Cremation just leads to accidents.

 

[Escape Goat]

 

[Dreez]

Why grind up the bones? Let us keep the skeletons 😎

 

[Escape Goat]

Why grind up the bones? Let us keep the skeletons 😎

Can’t. 2spooky4me

 

[Johndoey]

Why grind up the bones? Let us keep the skeletons 😎

Finally a legal way to enter the bone zone.

 

[Chmpocalypse]

Um, explain to me the point of calling this a 'non-innocuous law'. What is the fucking complaint here?

 

[Kthulhu]

I'd be cool with this. Traditional funerals are a huge waste of money anyway, helping to save the environment and stick it to the funeral companies is just icing on the cake.

 

[Valkerionseven]

Wonder where the liquid will go though, incoming scandal about some place flushing remains or just pouring them in the sewer im sure.

 

[louiedog]

I've actually been to a funeral directors convention as part of a job I had for a brief period. A guy who operated a crematorium told me he could reduce a 300 lb man to the size of a coffee can (yes, I also thought of the Big Lebowski). I wonder what volume a 300 lb liquefied person occupies.

 

[mariachi507]

 

[Johndoey]

Wonder where the liquid will go though, incoming scandal about some place flushing remains or just pouring them in the sewer im sure.

If the solution they used to dissolve the body can be neutralized it's pretty much just a nutrient soup right? Might be useful for something.

 

[Earthbound64]

I mean, since cremation is allowed, I don't see how this is significantly different.

Wonder where the liquid will go though, incoming scandal about some place flushing remains or just pouring them in the sewer im sure.

Same place ashes from cremation go?

 

[PersonAndStuff]

Water the weed farms with my corpse.

 

[Earthbound64]

Anyway I found a render of their thing:

I suppose the idea is to turn *you* into the jelly this donut is missing?

Looks like a Slinky®

I can just imagine it slinking along liquefying people.

 

[Brakke]

If the solution they used to dissolve the body can be neutralized it's pretty much just a nutrient soup right? Might be useful for something.

The article gets into the details, it’s actually pretty interesting. They basically simmer the corpse in lye, then pour in some vinegar at the end to bring it back to or at least closer to neutral. No mention where the person-slurry gets flushed to tho.

Situation with bones is cool:

In aquamation, raising the temperature and pressure helps the process move along faster. Usually, it takes about four hours to dissolve a skeleton. By the end of the process, the only solid thing that’s left is a pile of soft bones (potassium hydroxide won’t eat through calcium phosphate) that gets crushed into a sterile powder for family members of the deceased to take home.

They claim the “bone” remains aren’t toxic like cremation ashes, so you can scatter them in more places.

 

[Stuggernaut]

So if you liquify a person, turn them into fertilizer, grow a fruit tree, and eat the fruit... is that gross?

 

[Brakke]

So if you liquify a person, turn them into fertilizer, grow a fruit tree, and eat the fruit... is that gross?

The alternative is eating fruit fertilized with cow shit.

I’m not out here standing tall for cannibalism but if I was starving to death on the Oregon Trail, I’d eat a man long before I ate a cow pie.

 

[Rival]

You’re my hero.

 

[Count Dookkake]

.

 

[Earthbound64]

No mention where the person-slurry gets flushed to tho.

 

[smurfx]

i want to have a burial freeze.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN4bxwfQ3-k

 

[NoblesseOblige]

What a waste of a good dead body.

 

[Brakke]

Yes, siree, you’ll surely get the best rates here at Surrey Slurry.

 

[Monocle]

What does the California state government have against the noble art of morgue puppetry?

 

[chromhound]

Ozark style like with the mexican cartel 🤔

 

[Earthbound64]

Yes, siree, you’ll surely get the best rates here at Surrey Slurry.

And don't call me Shirley.

 

[Rhaknar]

first post on point.

 

[IamDodongo]

Alright, that got me

 

[The Real Napsta]

This deserves more credit. Lmao

 

[Astral Dog]

Mm liquid

 

[The Living Tribunal]

"Welcome to Dark Souls"