This seems to be the conservative's answer for improving the environment! Well, they finally have a good idea!

Question

CONCORD, N.H. - Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest - dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain.

The process is called alkaline hydrolysis and was developed in this country 16 years ago to get rid of animal carcasses. It uses lye, extreme heat and pressure to destroy bodies in big stainless-steel cylinders that are similar to pressure cookers.

No funeral homes in the U.S. - or anywhere else in the world, as far as the equipment manufacturer knows - offer it. In fact, only two U.S. medical centres use it on human bodies, and only on cadavers donated for research.

But because of its environmental advantages, some in the funeral industry say it could someday rival burial and cremation.

"It's not often that a truly game-changing technology comes along in the funeral service," the newsletter Funeral Service Insider said in September. But "we might have gotten a hold of one

Answer 1

What was the problem before?

What was the source?

Who says its conservative?

Answer 2

That could have been the beginning of water pollution.

Never put anything down the drain, that  so called cremation sounded very distressing.

I knew about animals but I doubt that its put in to drains more likely buried on the farm