Labour’s big solution to the burials problem is borrowed from the Mafia and the Nazis: dissolving bodies in chemicals and flushing them into the sewage or using them as fertiliser
The only difference is that the Mafia and other criminal organisations use acid. But the Malta government proposes uses an alkaline solution instead.
I quote Times of Malta:
Also known as resomation, the method uses a mixture of alkaline and hot water to dissolve body tissue into a dark “motor oil” liquid.
The thick syrup is then treated along with standard domestic waste in the municipal sewage system or used as a high-protein fertiliser.
Who announced this? My childhood neighbour Michael Falzon, parliamentary secretary for planning.
He is the only person I ever knew who took the slightest interest in the Stella Maris parish feast. Nobody else ever did. I lived there for 21 years and never even knew there was one.
Now in his saints-and-fireworks fervour, he proposes with all seriousness dissolving dead bodies and then flushing them into the sewage system along with “standard domestic waste” or using them as “high-protein fertiliser”.
The bones are then ground up and given to the grieving relatives in a small box.
It just gets worse and worse, doesn’t it. Using dissolved human bodies as fertiiser (high protein, if you please) is the extreme end of the ‘majtezwel ghax wertit’ mentality: you have a dead body there. Why waste it? Dissolve it and use it as fertiliser.
Fertilise what, anyway – fruits and vegetables? Grain? If we heard the Chinese were doing this, there would be an international scandal and they wouldn’t sell another mushroom.
Imagine the headlines:
MALTA USES HUMAN BODIES ASA FERTILISER FOR GIANT STRAWBERRY CROP.
MALTESE DISSOLVE HUMAN REMAINS FOR BIGGER PUMPKINS.
Surely there is an EU directive about this kind of thing.
The man pushing the process – a Joe Wilson – told Times of Malta that dissolving bodies in his alkaline solution is more environmentally friendly than cremating them. Oh really? It’s more environmentally friendly, is it, to flush huge quantities of chemical solution into the sewage system, to end up in the sea, or to plough this – together with its attendant ‘high protein’ into our already highly alkaline soil.
I can’t have been the first one to have understood that what we are witnessing now is a systematic and sustained effort at brutalisation of our society (which never needed much encouragement anyway) by a political party that has long specialised in the business and has long since been brutalised itself. This is but one such aspect: the presentation as perfectly normal and reasonable, by a member of the government, of the chemical dissolution of human bodies and using them as fertiliser or throwing them away with sewage.
Imagine the outcry in the media if a government minister had said that in any other EU member state – but here in Malta, t5he story slipped by unnoticed and unremarked on.
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140424/local/-Solve-cemetery-issue-by-dissolving-corpses-.516145
So long as they don’t use the bath tub for the job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUFbOAIWjJM
Considering the high availability of lime on the island it will be cheaper in the long term.
Why don’t we also kill all those who do not work, and dissolve their bodies for fertilizer, too?
This sort of emotionally-charged and very personal issue is right up the Nationalist Party’s street. So why aren’t they raising hell?
Are they really that dumb?
Yes.
No. Muscat got his aim with the build- up to the so-called good news. The media is now going wild with the “2c reduction’ story, ignoring the real news.
These are all red herrings.
Labour can’t even organise a meeting under a tent without burning all the audience and the speaker, let alone make this Mafia style burial.
I have inherited the right to be buried in three different graves, and it doesn’t really worry me where they will bury me, because I won’t be here to see the fun.
So where were we? Ah, JOB CREATION, The ECONOMY, POWER STATION, NATIONAL DEBT! Eyes on the ball, Baxx.
So what happens if the proposed plant doesn’t get enough corpses to make it viable?
A seance with Albert Speer may provide the answer.
That is NOT the point.
Of course not, but that will become the reasoning.
I’m surprised they’re not proposing to make soap out the bodies and sell it just like the Nazis did. Why not? Majtezwel.
I’ve seen comments about this on Facebook, mainly deriding any opposition to it. Truly, your comment about “brutalisation of our society (which never needed much encouragement anyway)” is quite apt.
High-protein fertiliser? Plants are not animals; they don’t need protein. Plants build up their own protein from raw nitrogen.
Oh, and Daphne, you are right of course about the folly of treating an already highly alkaline soil with even more alkali.
As someone who has experience working with Malta’s water systems and sewage treatment sector, I can confirm that it’s already hard enough to treat the water and sewage that goes down our drains. We definitely do not need any additional chemicals and dissolved bodies going into the mix.
What will those Maltese who no longer eat fish because of so many emigrants drowning in the Mediterranean do should this ever become a reality?
What will they eat and drink? Or will they be ordering their food via the internet, from overseas.
And how will they bathe? The water from their taps comes from reverse osmosis plants, which separate sea water into brine and almost-potable water.
The water in Malta’s aquifers may be filtered by porous rock, but it also comes from the sea (and thanks to over-exploitation, the filtering is not allowed to take place properly).
“I can’t have been the first one to have understood that what we are witnessing now is a systematic and sustained effort at brutalisation of our society (which never needed much encouragement anyway) by a political party that has long specialised in the business and has long since been brutalised itself.”
You could not have been more spot on. Somebody remarked to me the other day that this government is clearly destroying our society as we know it. I cannot agree more. I really cannot agree more.
Fiction is becoming fact.
We are in the first stages of making “soylent green” from these corpses.
The joys of Chinese fertilisers,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLW7JUGfn9I
Falzon could resolve residents’ concerns to fireworks manufacture. Muscat to diversify his family business.
Systematic and sustained brutalisation of our society, now where do we start with that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXMIgHEXkyw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVnhRDuXGPs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw65n3ajZu4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hpI0Z4Yyjo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2igB2O9Pnu4
And finally, waste oil recycled and sold to consumers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_2nGMNA1lU
No limits, no self respect, no concept of creating one’s capabilities beyond perception, not when your government insists on knowing best.
Quality doesn’t matter, in fact it’s a symptom of free speech, to be regimented into uniformity, creativity, quality’s process, to be reined in to the needs of an eternal overwhelming state.
I know this is just the wrong end of China, but boy, did Labour get there, fast.
Can we use this solution for our over crowded, worthless cabinet. Not that I would want to use the high protein stuff to fertilize my garden mind you. I much prefer to use horse manure.
If you dissolve our Cabinet in an alkaline solution you could obtain some very good soap.
If there’s a Dalli thrown in, you might get the (excess) soap for free.
That “soap” would be ideal for “soft soaping” the gullible voters into mishandling their votes at general elections.
Even that should be put in a titanium chest bound with locks and chains and deposited somewhere where it won’t resurface.
Jo will prefer to go for the method of ‘ascension.’ It is the only method fit for the gods.
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Try Baxxter’s famous corpse-to-soap-to-bubbles solution.
ACHIEVE ETERNAL LIFE BY FERTILISING YOUR PLANTS
How do you say Soylent Green in Maltese?
Let us, once again, do the useless and utterly moronic journalists’ work for them:
http://www.bioresponsefuneral.com/pdf/History_Alkaline_Hydrolysis.pdf
http://www.bioresponsefuneral.com
http://www.pressherald.com/news/a-chance-to-go-green-right-into-the-after-life_2012-03-22.html
And Joe Wilson IS NOT – repeat: IS NOT – a “scientist”, you stupid, bloody morons. He has a B.S. from Purdue. That’s a bachelor’s degree.
Fucking morons. He’s a fucking CEO of his own corpse-dissolving company, offering “alkaline hydrolysis”. He’s a ragel ta’ success in the purest Maltese/Gonzian/Muscatian sense. But he is not a scientist.
Fucking morons once again. Stupid, lying, conniving, brain-dead journalists, writing reams of copy I wouldn’t wipe my arse with if I had full-blown dysentery.
Wilson, first you should try this on your family if you have any. Then on your parents and not on us.
What do you think we are, animals? Not even because all my life we had animals and when they died we did the best for them too.
Vera hmieg – was this in the Labour manifest? I don’t think so.
Joe Wilson’s is a family business. I wonder who the Maltese contact is and how they fished him out.
Xi dwejjaq ta’ nies. How callous and unfeeling.
The paragraph on resomation in the policy document issued by MEPA for public consultation on the subject starts with the words “Another novel technique, aquamation or resomation…”
Whenever I hear Labour describing something as “novel,” Jo’s toying with the living wage a couple of years ago comes to mind.
They are also proposing another ‘novel’ method, called “Cryomation” or “Promession.”
“The method of cryomation or promession is a novel technique. The process involves immersing a body in liquid nitrogen down to a temperate of -196 degrees Celcius at which point it becomes extremely brittle. The process then uses pressure to fragment the body into small particles
allowing for the removal of any surgical implants and other foreign material. A cryomation or promession apparatus could be located within a cemetery or elsewhere (according to the provisions of development plans), subject to the limitations imposed by national operational standards for the process.”
Sounds like they will immerse the body in one of the tanks of the LNG Gemini in Marsaxlokk bay to me.
As long as an idea can be labelled as “innovative” it is accepted as worthy of consideration, and possible acceptance, by Joseph Muscat.
Boiling corpses under pressure in a lye drain-opener solution and draining the resultant sludge into the sewer is hardly hi-tech.
Innovation is an excellent mask for those who lack the capacity for empathy and/or emotion.
It allows psychopaths to pass any wacky idea through.
Any wacky idea without logical backtrack remains a crazy idea.
Generally when that psychopath wields some form of intellectual or political superiority, people feel intimidated and inferior to that “superiority.”
Unless countered, that psychopath will just keep on unhindered. The general public will find it psychologically difficult to break that barrier down step by step. It is stunned into inaction. And that is the purpose behind the intentional chaos.
The psychopath is in a position of influence that bands the necessary people around him to bolster his position. As he puts one core of chaos after another into place.
The countering stand needs to be strong from the point of view of each individual.
It is not enough that a party leader of the opposition takes a stand against.
There needs to be a personal conviction that comes from a complete understanding of this point.
Only this will lower the tolerance levels that are far too high in this country.
Why Joseph Muscat’s actions are tolerated and why he is permitted to go from one unethical action to another, I cannot understand.
We should be out in the streets. Protesting.
Fearless.
There’s also this:
“The lack of facilities for farm waste treatment means that the waste either gets dumped into the sewerage network or on to agricultural fields to boost yields. Both practices are illegal.”
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140423/local/Animal-farms-still-forced-to-dump-waste-illegally.516025
Sempliciment tal- biza
What a pity this method wasn’t implemented a couple of years ago, I have in mind someone for whom it would have been entirely appropriate.
Those of us who watch South Park may remember the episode when Cartman cooked his friend’s parents and fed them to him.
Come to think of it, Joseph Muscat does look a bit like Cartman. We’re in trouble.
Wasn’t it Labour Party supporters who were victims of the infamous interdett? Weren’t bodies of Labour Party supporters buried in unconsecrated ground? It’s shocking and shouldn’t have been done … but now they’re suggesting doing the same thing.
Why not go the whole hog and use the burning process to drive a turbine and generate “clean” electricity?
We have already produced the biggest pumpkin.
Joe Azzopardi can always put up a special edition of Xarabank to promote the Maltese crops under the label “Ixtri prodott Malti”.
I think Joe Azzopardi was a testimonial years ago for local products, and he can now rephrase the caption “Ixtri Prodott Malti b’fertilizer Malti”.
Taht il-Lejber, fil-Gzira Taparsi anke l-Mejtin Ikabbru l-Fjuri.
Reminds me of the film ‘Soylent Green’. Grind up people who are past their sell buy date, then turn them into green pellets for the starving masses to eat.
The Nazi method of using acid would be more useful in Malta because our soil is already much too alkaline.
The proponents of the scheme do not seem to know that plants would not know what to do with proteins until these free their nitrogen.
There is no such thing as a “high protein fertiliser” only a “high NITROGEN ferttiliser, (the N in NPK fertilizers).
There is however such a thing as a high protein “FOOD” and I hope the proponents of the scheme won’t be mixing them up when disposing of the dead. It would smack of cannibalism.
During Labour’s golden years they used to chop bodies and dump them in unused wells in Buskett. Get we expect something better from ‘Ulied il-Mizbla’.
While we’re at it, why not generate electricity by incinerating corpses at the new power station and then refund the next of kin in their electricity bill?
Calm down everybody.
This is what is called positive energy.
When Joseph and his cabinet pass into the next parallel life, they will donate their positive energy containing molecules to the benefit of the further reduction of electricity bills.
The calorific value of fat is quite good and the fat accumulation of some of the new elite is quite positive.
This will also contribute to new technology and we can offer this service to the Chinese. They will ship their corpses via Air China to Malta to be used in the Chinese power station selling energy into the European grid.
Who on earth would ever consider melting their loved ones to a tarry bog to be flushed down the toilet after picking out the bones?
And….who on earth would ever consider eating food that has been fertilized with human bodies?
The thought that someone has actually come up with the idea, and that it has been endorsed by the government leaves me stunned.
Muscat’s ‘final solution’…
I certainly wouldn’t want my loved ones dissolved and flushed down the drain or dried up for manure.
What disrespect to the human body is this?
Everyday, we are being served with something to argue on. Hope that this dissolution of the human body would not be made a law – which we will have to lump.
Il-bajd se jikber iktar.
“Using dissolved human bodies as fertiiser (high protein, if you please) is the extreme end of the ‘majtezwel ghax wertit’ mentality: you have a dead body there. Why waste it? Dissolve it and use it as fertiliser.”
For a political party that got so much mileage out of ‘nies midfuna fil-miżbla’, this is very rich coming from them. But not as rich as the protein content in the resulting sludge.
Ahfrilhom Mulej ghax ma xafux x`inhuma jaghmlu.
It’s worse. Jafu x’inhuma jaghmlu u jibqghu ghaddejjin xorta.
I am sure that Michael Falzon will not use this ‘new’ and ‘modern’ method on the the hunters’ bird catch.
Ahseb u ara kemm se nhallih juzaha ghall-gheziez tieghi.
Meanwhile, on another planet a humane solution to consider …. http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-man-who-transforms-corpses-into-diamonds
Verament tal-biki. L-inkompetenza tikber kulljum. Iridu l-fertilizer bir-ragun ghax gvern tal-kabocci.