Dead bodies will be burned to heat a swimming pool in the U.K. — and the British government is considering adopting the idea across the country.
Senior lawmaker Sir George Young, the leader of the House of Commons, told The Telegraph newspaper that he would “die a happier man” if he could arrange for his cremation to provide heat for swimmers.
Redditch Borough Council is set to become the first local government body in England to use heat from a crematorium to warm a pool this spring, the newspaper reported.
via World News – Dead bodies to be burned to heat UK swimming pool.
I’m all into volunteering your body to be burned (for the good of the world or whatever)… but still… I don’t think I would swim there…
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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so is there a place to mark on the back of your driver’s license that says you want to heat a swimming pool, like you do with organ donation
Next stop, soylent green. Creepy. Or maybe compost for the garden? I think I’d prefer cold water.