Mexico man 'dissolved 300 bodies'

[one...two...tree 2,762]

End the war on drugs....problems solved.

and what just let people use them as they please. Forget about the teenager or college student trying it for the first time, have you ever seen how various drugs affect an addict. Affect their family and so on. What they do to an addicts life.

America already has the highest drug use out of any other developed country in the world. You guys definitely don't need anymore druggies on the streets.

Drug addiction is a separate issue from drug smuggling and dealing. Instead of spending the hundreds of millions of dollars every year trying to stop the smuggling and dealing, a fraction of that money would be enough to provide drug addiction programs. Obviously, the status quo approach isn't working. It's time to think outside the box.

You must be all for ending the "war on Poverty" too?

Hell we have more people in poverty now than we did when we declared this war!.... I agree we should end this war too and .. how did you put it?..."start thinking out side the box"?

Danno, if we were spending the amount of money on poverty that we do on drugs, with the same results, overcrowded jails, the continued smuggling and peddling of illegal substances, then I'd say yes, it's time to end the 'War on Poverty' as we know it.

[Ban Hammer 13,635]

Santiago Meza, called the "stew maker", said he was paid $600 (£440) a week to dissolve the bodies of murdered rival gang members in caustic soda.

He could have used some kinds of salsa to get the same effect.

maybe some of the victims were turned into salsa.

[SupportOAFJF 0]

Wow, this is crazy..and they only paid $600 a week

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

There was a famous case in the 1800s about a guy who did that.

The most gruesome thing is that it doesn't dissolve everything - fat, hair and teeth are leftover

[Ban Hammer 13,635]

Wow, this is crazy..and they only paid $600 a week

that's pretty good money in mexico.

[SAT 9,609]

End the war on drugs, let the poor get high then they won't mind being poor so much.

[bhajishah 4]

Oh whateva, maybe other countries not tracking the use as much as we do. Ive travled world wide, seen more drugs used overseas than here. including aussie beach land and outback. maybe its called medicine where you come from.

[SupportOAFJF 0]

Wow, this is crazy..and they only paid $600 a week

that's pretty good money in mexico.

that's right i over looked $600 US...but wow

[mawilson 2,133]

The guy is innocent. So what if he dissoved some bodies, they were already dead.

[SAT 9,609]

The guy is innocent. So what if he dissoved some bodies, they were already dead.

Henceforth coins the term "mexican funeral director"

[Danno 1,228]

End the war on drugs....problems solved.

and what just let people use them as they please. Forget about the teenager or college student trying it for the first time, have you ever seen how various drugs affect an addict. Affect their family and so on. What they do to an addicts life.

America already has the highest drug use out of any other developed country in the world. You guys definitely don't need anymore druggies on the streets.

Drug addiction is a separate issue from drug smuggling and dealing. Instead of spending the hundreds of millions of dollars every year trying to stop the smuggling and dealing, a fraction of that money would be enough to provide drug addiction programs. Obviously, the status quo approach isn't working. It's time to think outside the box.

You must be all for ending the "war on Poverty" too?

Hell we have more people in poverty now than we did when we declared this war!.... I agree we should end this war too and .. how did you put it?..."start thinking out side the box"?

Danno, if we were spending the amount of money on poverty that we do on drugs, with the same results, overcrowded jails, the continued smuggling and peddling of illegal substances, then I'd say yes, it's time to end the 'War on Poverty' as we know it.

It would be interesting if we knew how much money has been spent on

food stamps

welfare,

free lunch,

section 8,

Meals on wheels

WIC,

medi-care,

child care,

head-start

Can anyone think of others???

For 45 years we have been doing this,

I don't have the numbers but I am bettin it is a lot more than the war on drugs.

Anyone know where to find the amounts?

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Federal budget:

[Mags 112]

This reminds me of resomation...funeral homes may start using that in the future. Apparently it's better for the environment than cremation.

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"(Resomation is) a chemical hydrolysis process (with added alkali ) at high temperature (170C) with the body fully immersed in water. The water is needed since it is a hydrolysis (water added) process requiring water and the high temperature is needed to transfer the heat required to speed up the reaction time many fold over that found in nature. Boiling on the other hand is a phase change where water is turned to steam above the liquids boiling point . With Resomation, the system is under high pressure and boiling does not occur. The body tissues are rapidly (within 30 minutes) 'resolved' into liquid and back to their original organic building blocks leaving the bone shadows. It is a very efficient speeded up version of natural decomposition and the liquid can later be applied on horticultural land if desired."

On the company's website, founder Sandy Sullivan states, "Over 130 years ago, cremation offered fundamental change in the way we appoached human disposition and some serious convincing was required before it was fully accepted. Look where we are today. Cremation has served us well but as with everything in life positive change is essential with the moving tide of environmental issues we all face. It is again time to reconsider, challenge, analyse and decide where we go next. The environment requires, and indeed demands it."

While the resomation process has already gained popularity in Europe, funeral homes in the United States have been slow to adopt the technology. Some balk at the $400,000 price tag for a resomator, some doubt whether it is truly eco-friendly and still others who are interested in offering resomation are trying to get the process legally approved.

This is what's left over at the end

Resomation Site

That's similar to what they do in some Mediterranean countries. Bodies are buried in crypts, then after a couple of years removed and the remaining flesh boiled away. Then they are placed in an ossuary.

[Amby 490]

cool

I weird stuff like that

[Mags 112]

cool

I weird stuff like that

I had to do some reading, especially when I found out that's what they do on Malta, where my Mum is buried. In five years she'll be subject to that process. It's a weird feeling.

Luckily, her cemetery leaves it for 8 years before placing the bones in an ossuary, other cemeteries in the area only wait for a year.

It's all due to lack of space. They need the crypts for the newly dead.