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Anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church to protest at slain Powell boys' funeral

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Tight security for Rabbani funeral in Kabul

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A Stoner-Funeral Mobile? From New York Gritty Photo Diary

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INTHESHIT - 'Kings of the grindcore jungle' free CD : aggressive, direct, to the point, and never dragging

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Navy Seal's dog loyal to the end

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Man Arrested, Jailed For Sagging At SFO

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Tony Destructo: God Hates Dumbasses

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Sathya Sai Baba’s Funeral Live - Samadhi Darshan

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I see dead people: Drive-thru funeral home erected in LA

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Regulators: Ohio funeral home can't liquefy bodies

An Ohio funeral home that is the first in the nation to use a cremation alternative that dissolves bodies with lye and heat has effectively been blocked from using the procedure by state regulators.
Edwards Funeral Service in Columbus is the only U.S. funeral business offering the procedure called alkaline hydrolysis to the public, according to Jessica Koth, a spokeswoman for the National Funeral Directors Association. The process is touted by proponents as being better for the environment than cremation. While funeral homes in other states are moving toward the method, Edwards' owner, Jeff Edwards, told The Columbus Dispatch that he has used the method on 19 bodies since January.
But a memo issued last week by the Ohio Department of Health has left Edwards unable to continue using the procedure.
The health department's memo directed local officials not to issue permits required for disposing of bodies or accept death certificates when bodies are to be disposed of through alkaline hydrolysis.
Edwards told the newspaper he is considering legal action. "There's no law that says you can't do this," he said.
The health department cited a Feb. 16 statement from the Ohio Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors that alkaline hydrolysis "is not an authorized form of disposition of a dead human body." The health department directive was based solely on the statement of the board, which advises the department on what methods of disposal are approved, spokeswoman Jennifer House said Wednesday. She said the department has reviewed the process and found that it does not pose any risk to public health.
An official with the funeral directors board did not immediately return a message seeking further information.
Alkaline hydrolysis was developed in the U.S. in the early 1990s as a means to get rid of animal carcasses and has been used to dispose of human cadavers at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Also known as resomation, alkaline hydrolysis uses a solution of water and lye, 300-plus degree heat and 60 pounds of pressure per square inch to destroy bodies in big stainless-steel cylinders. Left behind is a coffee-colored liquid that has the consistency of motor oil and a strong ammonia smell. Proponents say in most cases it can be safely poured down the drain and that, unlike cremation, the process does not involve fossil fuels or emissions.
The remaining bone and bone fragments can be ground into a powder and given to a family, similar to the remains left from a cremation, the funeral directors association said.
New Hampshire in 2008 reversed a two-year-old law that allowed the process. State lawmakers upheld the ban in 2009.
The procedure merely speeds up the body's natural decomposition process into a matter of hours, James Olson, chairman of the National Funeral Directors Association's green burial work group, told The Associated Press.
Olson said alkaline hydrolysis gives families who've lost a loved one another option and said anyone feeling squeamish about the method need only think closely about what's involved in cremation.
"I think burning a body at 2,000 degrees has more of a 'yuck factor' to it than putting it into a solution where it's just naturally going to break down," said Olson, owner of the Lippert-Olson Funeral Home in Sheboygan, Wis.
Olson said his funeral business is relatively small and is not using alkaline hydrolysis because it would not be cost-effective to buy the equipment.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus has not studied Edwards' use of alkaline hydrolysis, but it would appear that flushing away the liquid would go against church teaching that persons should be handled respectfully after they die, said Deacon Tom Berg Jr., a diocese spokesman.
"We don't call for the separation of a person's remains, that they should all be kept together and buried together," he told the AP.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110323/ap_on_re_us/us_liquefying_bodies_6An Ohio funeral home that is the first in the nation to use a cremation alternative... more

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Dearly E-Parted Deserve Better - Mitch Albom | Opinion

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iPad 2 Sells Out In Afterlife As Chinese Tech Out Their Dead

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As funeral homes and crematoriums are overwhelmed, Japanese are forced to resort to bowling alleys and mass burial

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Libya Funeral - Victims of Bombing by US British & French

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Win your own funeral from German radio station

A German local radio station which is offering a cheque to cover your funeral costs as a competition prize has come under fire from a bunch of undertakers. The lucky winner of Radio Galaxy's competition in Aschaffenburg, north Bavaria will receive €3,000 (£2,578; $4,195) which has to be spent on death insurance - money that will cover funeral expenses.More than 600 contestants have already sent in their own epitaph for their headstone. The winner will be chosen on Wednesday.An association of undertakers calls it "tasteless" and is suing Radio Galaxy.One of the radio's presenters, Jens Pflueger, defended the competition, saying it was aimed at breaking society's "taboo" about death and getting young people to talk about it."We wanted to raise awareness about this difficult topic among young people," he told the BBC.In a statement on its website, the Association of German Undertakers condemned the competition."This activity is not just impious and tasteless, it is also immoral as regards the law against unfair competition," it said.An Aschaffenburg funeral director, the Erich Kraus Institute, is sponsoring the competition.The radio station's Mr Pflueger said a court ruling on the competition was expected on 17 March - after the winner has been announced."We want people to send in their own epitaphs. If they send someone else's quote that's OK, but for me that's not creative enough," he said."We want to demonstrate that it's good to get death insurance. Older people say it's tasteless, but we're not joking - we're discussing this on air."He said some epitaphs may be amusing, but "people can express themselves how they like".Contestants can easily find some inspiring examples of famous epitaphs.Winston Churchill never lost his sense of humour, even on his deathbed, saying: "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."Comedian Spike Milligan's epitaph said: "I told you I was ill."Crooner Frank Sinatra chose the title of one of his songs: "The best is yet to come." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12663460A German local radio station which is offering a cheque to cover your funeral costs as... more

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Going out with a bang! Dead man's last wish

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Funeral set for The Tuscon victim

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Thousands gather for Ariz. girl's funeral

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The Tuesday Top Ten (on Monday): Strippers and Truck Explosions

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Town Fights Back Against Westboro Baptist Church & Fred Phelps

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