Belgian plans to liquify corpses and pour them down the drain

IT’S being promoted as the environmentally friendly option – undertakers in Belgium plan to do away with traditional burials and cremations and start dissolving corpses instead.

Remains would be given to relatives to flush away as a final goodbye.

Or authorities could flush them into the sewage, rather than running a crematorium or using up land for graves.

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