Liquid nitrogen could soon solve the problem of full cemeteries in Britain.
British tabloid newspaper, Daily Mail, published a report yesterday concerning a new method how Britain could deal with its dead.
The new method is called promession, which basically means that a dead body is submerged in liquid nitrogen until it so brittle that giving it a gentle shake causes it to crumble into powder.
The first authority to propose the method to be used is Crewe Council in Cheshire in England. They are proposing to freeze-dry bodies to –196C and then put them on a vibrating pad which reduces them to powder within a minute.
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