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NEWS > SCIENCE > BELGIUM STARTS LIQUIFYING CORPSES LEADING MANY TO BELIEVE WE BE IN THE MATRIX
BELGIUM STARTS LIQUIFYING CORPSES LEADING MANY TO BELIEVE WE BE IN THE MATRIX
August 15 2010
Brussels, Belgium – Death is always a messy business, both for the dead and for the living. Aside from all the emotional trauma associated with the demise of a loved one there is the huge financial and logistical burden that goes along with funerals and
taking care of assets and legal issues. In many families the core of those issues are taken care of beforehand but inevitably some things are missed and particularly amongst those who are grieving can be incredibly stressful.
Much of that stress comes in respect to the funeral itself. The final repose, the final sleep is an expensive and very much a traumatizing experience for everyone involved. Adding to that stress is all the decision that need to be made. Aside from fundamental things such as the choice of casket to little choices like what sandwiches to serve at the wake make the whole process of dying complex and stressful. For years though the choice of final repose was simple; burial or cremation. However in the modern age new techniques and a growing sense of environmental responsibility have made even that aspect of funerals more complex. The newest is a Belgian technique that breaks down bodies into a mixture of liquid and chemicals, a controversial process that not only flies in the face of funeral convention but has also brought about the possibility that we are simply living in some kind of computer program like the Matrix.
“The process is called Resomation which essentially works by subjecting bodies to a mixture of water and potassium hydroxide and heating them while under pressure until the bodies are reduced to a neutral liquid which can be disposed of in the local sewer system. Some bones will remain but they can be processed similar to what happens in cremation,” said a spokesperson for Resomation Limited. “This process if legal in a number of countries and we hope that in the coming weeks the Belgian government will give green light to the process for those who desire it.”
Traditional burials have long been considered and environmental burden due to the chemicals injected into bodies and the nature of caskets. Cremation is also considered a burden to the environment due to the large amount of carbon dioxide released.
“This is frankly a very interesting process if a little ghoulish on the surface. However that is likely due to the fact that we are not used to the system. It’s like eating horses which essentially isn’t much different than eating cows it’s just different,” said Scrape TV Business analyst Ken Green. “However people’s hold on what is comfortable can be a powerful thing and would imagine it will take quite a lot of convincing to turn people over to something like this, not only for the whole dignity of the corpse thing but also because of the larger implications of giving into the machines.”
In the movie ‘The Matrix’ human beings are bred to provide energy, given an computer simulated world in which to live, and are fed the liquefied remains of other humans.
“There are really two ways of looking at it. One is that by giving over to the process we are allowing the machines to get away with things, we are normalizing their abuse. The other side of that is if we are indeed already in some kind of matrix the process is already taking place and any protest is futile so we might as well give in,” continued Green. “Of course this could also be free humans interfering with the matrix and giving us a chance to wake up. Figures that this comes from Belgium. Damned Belgians.”
It’s not yet clear if the actors from the movie are indeed actual representations of the real people possibly trying to break through the matrix.
Anna Phillips, Science Correspondent
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