(via Instapaper)

A good piece from Dr. Joe Schwarcz, the author of the book Brain Fuel I have reviewed last year (in French). He is another great scientific writer, focused on subjects of chemistry (his own field), often as to how it affects biology, physiology and health. Always an easy, interesting to read.

In this piece, Dr. Schwarcz talk about a new approach to disposing of one’s body after death: instead of burial or cremation, it would be body disintegration into sludge for unceremonious flushing down the drain (without the toxic mercury coming from dental fillings, of course). Given that I am scared of waking up within the tomb and that I think cremation stinks (and disposing of the ash is such a melodramatic burden to leave to your loved ones), clean disintegration looks to me like the next best thing to being processed into hot-dogs.