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Freeze Dried Bodies

 Funeral homes would offer freeze-drying as an alternative to traditional preservative methods.
 
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To slow decay of the dearly departed, funeral homes could offer a freeze-drying method of corpse preservation. Spraying with a semi-gloss fungicide/urethane coating would prevent mold from destroying our venerable ancestors...
—whlanteigne, Jul 27 2003

Freeze Dried Bodies http://www.tribunei...20103/science.htm#2
biodegradable [FarmerJohn, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]

Is permafrost burial a viable option? http://www.cryonet....in/dsp.cgi?msg=7733
Answer: Yes, but freeze-drying is better. [phoenix, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]

Body and Soil http://www.science-....cfm?article_id=279
"...a Swedish environmental biologist recommends: returning corpses to the earth as freeze-dried organic fertilizer.." [phoenix, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]

500-year-old mummies found in Andes http://www.trussel....prehist/news116.htm
[phoenix, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]

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       Just make sure the open-casket funeral comes first.
—Cedar Park, Jul 27 2003
   

       Does it come with free astronaut ice cream? Yum!
—DeathNinja, Jul 27 2003
   

       It should also come with a glass display case that you can place them in, just like Vladimir Lenin! You can have their glass case be your coffee table in the living room!
—darkknight_152002, Jul 27 2003
   

       To what end?
—phoenix, Jul 27 2003
   

       yeah, |Dknight|, but put that entry under "Product: Corpse display case - coffee table - Biology project Combo"
—jong-scx, Jul 27 2003
   

       Can you really have humans taxidermized?
—darkknight_152002, Jul 28 2003
   

       If you have enough money you can do just about anything...
—DeathNinja, Jul 28 2003
   

       Just don't drop my coffin!
—k_sra, Jul 28 2003
   

       I want to be frozen in a block of ice, like Brendan Frasier in Enceno Man!
—JesseOQ, Aug 06 2003
   
      
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