That would save space in grave yards etc..

Also, if we discover that burning people is a viable source of energy.. then we could burn criminals which would mean we wouldn't have to pay so much in taxes to keep them in prison etc.

I really can't be arsed to look into the scientific side of this - I'm sure somebody will do that for me and correct me either on my lack of political correctness, or lack of knowledge of burning bodies, or lack of ethics, or all of the above.

Discuss.

Can we start with your loved ones 1st?

the mortition lobbiests are far to powerful to inact such a law

Its not just that, its that if I own a swath of land I can do with it as I please. If I want to charge people to bury thier dead there, its my right.

Thie totalitarian bullshit of making people burn thier dead, forcing everyone to pay 50% taxes etc is all decadent European backwards thinking that will eventually doom them.

I repeat my question, can we start with using the dead corpses of Mia and whoever wants to sponser this law's loved ones 1st as fuel etc? I am guessing the answer is a resounding NO. Its always ok to do the uncomfortable shit as long as it isnt in your back yard.

Ted Kennedy is a good example. A power company wanted to build a windmill power plant that would power all of cape cod, the Kennedys however said no and lobbied against it. It would ruin the view of thier beachfront properties.

Next time you hear Teddy K whining about needing to cut down on buying fuel from the middle east or south America remember he turned down renewable energy for all of the cape because he didnt want it in his view sight.

No, we have to start with the living corpses.

they're burning cats...it seems some european scientise, i want to say dutch has discovered away to make a form of useable gas from incinerating cats...

geman actually...

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1534821.html

apparantly animal activists agree with billy.

but it'd be something to look into, people are willingly paying to have loved ones burned to diamonds...they can volunteer for organ donorship...why not give people an option to utilze the dead for somethig useful, rather than spending thousands of dollars to bury them in some fancy box and leave them with a headstone.

it could be a good crime deterent, i hear in china they are actually producing make up with the skin of criminal cadavers...is fuel really less important than diamonds or make up?

Sure! As long as they're dead I don't think they'll give a shit. Hmm, I would like to scatter their ashes where they wished though, so I'd like a return on the clinker.

I adore cats, as you know, but I say again - as long as they're dead.. does it matter? What I wouldn't want to see is some black market in cat corpses spring up :/

As for the human sentimental element, you can still erect a headstone, a park bench, or plant a tree to remember somebody by...

you mean like zombies?

How a person burns depends on their body fat and whether or not they were embalmed.
Still, regardless of all the other arguments, it would be possible to do in a quiet way. As, at the end of the day, all crematoriums do is create heat all day long, surely someone could come up with a way of harnessing that heat, creating steam and running turbines and all that jazz, just a modification of the present building?

I'm not comfortable with rounding up dead folk and dumping them at a big power station, but those that are going to be burned anyway could be done more efficiently.

Just a thought, what about the nitrogen cycle?

I know lightening can cause fixation as well as the decay in the earth, but if less people were buried and more nitrogen ended up as atmospheric, would that effect plant life suffiently enough to damage crops, etc?

In countries where cremation is the norm, like India, there is more animal decay due to Hinduism, so I really don't know what would happen in the west.

Soylent GREEN !!!!! Is just wrong but ...
whats wrong with burnin da dead? esp animals mohahahaaaa! Hell Chinas already made a market out of human body parts!

This whole OIL shortage is BS . We dont even need this method of fule anymore but then the world economy would crash ..

But yeah let's see if you started taking in all the dead animals and the poor to make fule out of ..WOW youd get a lot !! DEER alone ! we could finaly do something with all our road kill !!

Besides we could then geneticly alter up a few land whale farms ,tho soy beans and corn work just fine lol!

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What the fucking shit guys holy shit. Wtf did i just read at that site. Are they really burning cats? if so OMFG thats silly.

Use people cats are cool

I can just see it now the 7 plagues of egypt are gonna be all over this guy

I think I would've felt better if I could've given my last cat to be burned. I don't own any land, and ended up just having to throw him in the trash. I felt really shitty.

You can definitely burn my loved ones. I'll sign a card saying you can burn me too. Lessen the ranks of the impending zombie pandemic.