An Alternative to Cremation? It seems that it's now possible to knit with human cells. Does that mean grandma could be made into a blanket?

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Feb 5, 2020 07:33:10 #

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

It seems that it's now possible to knit with human cells. Does that mean grandma could be made into a blanket?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2232357-yarn-grown-from-human-skin-cells-could-be-knitted-into-your-body/?utm_source=NSDAY&utm_campaign=f6643f66d0-NSDAY_050220&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1254aaab7a-f6643f66d0-373884923

Feb 5, 2020 07:37:01 #

cullumjt Loc: Central Florida

It seems that it's now possible to knit with human cells. Does that mean grandma could be made into a blanket?

Probably into a comforter. Seriously, though, what a great thing for medical science. The article is a recommended read!

Feb 5, 2020 07:46:06 #

Notorious T.O.D. Loc: Harrisburg, North Carolina

Go to China, get a virus, die, and they will cremate you for free...

Feb 5, 2020 08:45:10 #

NJFrank Loc: New Jersey

Notorious T.O.D. wrote:

Go to China, get a virus, die, and they will cremate you for free...

You don’t have to go to China to get a virus. Death happens everyday and some choose cremation.

Feb 5, 2020 09:01:01 #

Abo

jerryc41 wrote:

Close, it means a blanket could be made into grandma.

Feb 5, 2020 09:03:28 #

Notorious T.O.D. Loc: Harrisburg, North Carolina

Really, but is it free... Everybody likes free...

NJFrank wrote:

You don’t have to go to China to get a virus. Death happens everyday and some choose cremation.

Feb 5, 2020 09:07:00 #

NJFrank Loc: New Jersey

Notorious T.O.D. wrote:

Really, but is it free... Everybody likes free...

As far as I can tell a virus is free and it doesn’t discriminate.

Feb 5, 2020 09:27:43 #

Notorious T.O.D. Loc: Harrisburg, North Carolina

Actually they can be made to discriminate. HIV for example and this one is reportedly directed at Asian men, perhaps Chinese in particular. It also is reportedly man made and not naturally occurring... But I thought the topic was cremation...

NJFrank wrote:

As far as I can tell a virus is free and it doesn’t discriminate.

Feb 5, 2020 09:39:40 #

NJFrank Loc: New Jersey

But I thought the topic was cremation...[/quote]

Actually the topic is an alternative to cremation and that is certainly not free. But I feel we are hijacking the original thread. So I will end it here.

Feb 6, 2020 09:06:02 #

Stan Gould Loc: La Crosse, Wisconsin

cullumjt wrote:

It seems that it's now possible to knit with human cells. ... The article is a recommended read!

How? One has to subscribe to “NewScientist” to read beyond the third paragraph. Posts with a paywall shouldn't be allowed.

Feb 6, 2020 09:37:42 #

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Jerry! What's eating you... something.... check out YouTube.... Ask A Mortician... she is really great at "Dark Humor" and is really a mortician. There is a subject in new subjects on Mexico's day of the dead. I reference the three that she gives on photography of the dead.

Jerry, have you gone to a Funeral viewing with your camera lately?

For ironic humor check out YouTube "Ask A Mortician" She skillfully brings ironic dark humor to various cultures' views of death. Pertinent to photography is her discussion of the late 1800-early 1900 death and greaving photography.

What the heck, Jerry, take your camera and go to viewings... they are in the newspaper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8DxI8Pn1Uw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7SPbfK0EOg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmQHsGuBclI

She has one where the body is put in a pressure cooker with lye and made into a soap-like sludge which is then flushed down the drain... the bones are ground up and given to the loved ones.

Feb 6, 2020 10:04:52 #

fourlocks Loc: Londonderry, NH

Kind of a high "ick" factor with this one. Makes me think of old stories about Nazi lamp shades.

Feb 6, 2020 10:08:33 #

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Stan Gould wrote:

How? One has to subscribe to “NewScientist” to read beyond the third paragraph. Posts with a paywall shouldn't be allowed.

I get emails from New Scientist daily, and all I get to read is the headline and a few lines. Most articles don't even give me three paragraphs. At least I get the general idea. A subscription is pretty expensive.

Feb 6, 2020 10:39:15 #

elee950021 Loc: New York, NY

dpullum wrote:

Jerry! What's eating you... something.... check ou... (show quote)

I saw these videos a while back and they are interesting as they pertaining to photography. We've probably all seen historical photos of recently shot or executed bad guys in their casket in the old west.

In the second video link, Caitlin does a great job showing the whole process from applying the emulsion
to a tin or glass plate, "shooting" the decreased surrounded by the family wearing their mourning garb
and to getting a processed tintype or glass positive. Actually, not a simple procedure!

Be well! Ed

Feb 6, 2020 11:05:36 #

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

My Uncle Bob was a severe alcoholic and when he passed away he was cremated and he burned for three days..!

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