Poor poor Belgium.

Belgium's plan to wash its dead down the drain: Bodies would be dissolved in caustic solution... and flushed into the sewer

By Allan Hall

UK Daily Mail

It could hardly be said to be the most dignified of send-offs.

Undertakers in Belgium plan to eschew traditional burials and cremations and start dissolving corpses instead.

Themove is intended to tackle a lack of burial space and environmentalconcerns as 573lbs of carbon dioxide are released by each crematedcorpse.

Under the process, known as resomation, bodies are treated in asteel chamber with potassium hydroxide at high pressure and atemperature of 180c (350f).

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