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.

Belgian plans to liquify corpses and pour them down the drain

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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