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QJM Advance Access originally published online on October 17, 2006
QJM 2006 99(11):809-810; doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcl114
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Burning your relatives

John Launer

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If you want to dispose of a dead body, either human or animal, there are only a few ways you can do it, and they all have much the same effect. You can leave the body out in the open, so that other creatures of various kinds can eat most of it, metabolizing it into water and carbon dioxide. The bits that remain will be oxidized, essentially undergoing the same process but more slowly. An alternative option is to burn the body. This will also lead to the same results, but of course at a much faster rate. Or you can . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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