think this is disrespectful to the dead

[AuntiePickleBottom]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1350039/Row-crematorium-heating-swimmers-plan-cash-strapped-council.html

i'm all for saving money but this is just weird

All new build crematoriums are heated with the excess energy from the cremators, is that wrong? When you're sitting there in a service, the heat or air conditioning will be supplied by the very process of cremating the body.

I don't find it weird, I find it sensible.

Or should the energy be allowed to be wasted to escape into the atmosphere in some misplaced bid to protect people's sensibilities?

I'd be happier being cremate knowing the energy built up would be going to good use rather than being buried and being no use at all. personally. i also want to be an organ donor. i dont think that is disrespectful either as it is for a good reason.

cremated

Obviously she wasn't created in a crematorium, that would be very wrong.

Disrespectful to the dead? How, exactly? Just how? Apart from it's a bloody good idea who are the dead going to complain to? Is there a Dead Union or something? OP you are being VVVVVVVU

Wouldn't bother me. And I'm sure my dear old Dad would have been dead chuffed to know the energy was powering peoples homes. He was an electrician most of his life .

FAB idea! Especially for my Ex. Lazy bastard has never worked while he is alive so lets make the twat work when he's a gonner

I agree with BluddyMoFo

"I dont think the dead will be that bothered tbh"

i started a thread on this subject the other day, when i last looked most people thought it was a great idea

I've also lost a child and had her remains cremated - I have no qualms at all about that

if you bury someone they rot and basically become fertiliser, why not do something eco friendly from the cremation process - we are facing a huge energy crisis, and should be saving as much as we can at every opportunity

I once went to a crem that had recieved an eco-award as it used the energy from the cremations to produce its own electricity, and was eventually self powering.

Very good idea. I would like to think that my ashes had at least contributed something environmentally friendly to the world.

Fantastic idea
Why stop there let's get all crematoriums linked to national grid.
Don't understand why it's disrespectful at all dead don't know any better and if it was my relative that was being cremated I think I'd have more on my mind than If fire is heating a swimming pool!
YABU

YABU, it's not disrespectful to the dead at all, it's a sensible idea.

If I was coming out of a crematorium after a funeral and the first noise I heard was the sound of lots of children laughing and splashing about, I think it would lift my spirits. Sounds like a great idea

LOL at Morloth!

I did think it was ridiculous when the Unison rep was saying you could go to a family member's cremation one day and then go to the swimming pool the next and the energy from the family member's cremation was heating the swimming pool - and that it was wrong.

But it's ok to sit through a service and for the building to be heated by the energy from a previous cremation? What's the difference?

Because that's how the new technology works. I've worked on the design and building of crematoriums, it's eye opening, truly - but you can't be precious about these things!

?I don?t know how comfortable people would feel about the swimming pool being heated due to the death of a loved one.'

Hmm but the swimming pool won't be heated due to the death of a loved one. It is heated due to the excess heat generated in respectfully disposing of the remains. There is a difference.

Typical DM spin I think.

I reckon it is a great idea! Really agree with Seabright.

If I was coming out of a crematorium after a funeral and the first noise I heard was the sound of lots of children laughing and splashing about, I think it would lift my spirits.

never thought of it like that

YABU. As someone above said, there was a thread started about this the other day and the majority of people said that the more we can do to reuse energy, the better. It is a typical DM slant with emotive wording that is trying to make people associate the negative of people dying with a greed of energy companies when it is not like that at all.

If you're happy for your council tax to be spent on electricity while lots of excess energy is wasted, fair enough.

I kinda like it. Like the nitrogen cycle but modernised

I think it's a great idea

sigh This story has been in and out of the news for decades. It's a troll story, don't worry! First off, where are they going to find a leisure centre near enough to a crematorium to make this viable? Secondly, a crematorium only makes heat when it is taking care of a deaceased person, which is only a fraction of the time, so wiring it up to a pool, with all the heat loss on the way over, would be utterly useless and inconsistent.

In other words, it's there to make people whine over nothing. And it's worked!

IPofB [bgrin]

I think its a fantastic innovative idea. Its not using energy due to the death of loved ones, its using energy that is going to waste otherwise ergo saving energy. If they were killing people to cremate and heat the pool it would be a different matter but these are people who are already dead and have already been cremated, why not use the energy for a postive thing after all life goes on!