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Dr. John Troyer was at the Brooklyn observatory located in Nevins St. on April 19th, 2011. He gave a lecture on Death as a Biomass to an astonishingly small crowd. Dr. Troyer looked like one of those people who could get the attention of the audience he addressing without even asking for the attention. This was probably because of his tough guy/chill dude attire. He is built like a street fighter but wore a well ironed coat with polished dress shoes, and to top it off, he wore a pair of wise-owl glasses. He works for an organization called CDAS illusion where he basically works with dead bodies and also the dying. The crematorium he works in, Haycombe, is located in the South West of England, in a city called Bath but he was born in the United States as he humorously pointed out with the absence of a British accent.
Dr. John Troyer was at the Brooklyn observatory located in Nevins St. on April 19th, 2011. He gave a lecture on Death as a Biomass to an astonishingly small crowd. Dr. Troyer looked like one of those people who could get the attention of the audience he addressing without even asking for the attention. This was probably because of his tough guy/chill dude attire. He is built like a street fighter but wore a well ironed coat with polished dress shoes, and to top it off, he wore a pair of wise-owl glasses. He works for an organization called CDAS illusion where he basically works with dead bodies and also the dying. The crematorium he works in, Haycombe, is located in the South West of England, in a city called Bath but he was born in the United States as he humorously pointed out with the absence of a British accent.
One of the first slides that he presented in the lecture was of the URL: http://deathreferencedesk.org/. Which is a website that was created by librarians and its readers are able to find any and all information about death and the aftermath. A fascinating website in my opinion, on a side not for Andy, if you are still pursuing the idea for a “everything about birth” website, we should use Dr. Troyer’s site as a model. The site basically contains what he talked about in the lecture but in greater detail plus a lot more, although visiting the site is hardly a better alternative than listing to the lecture, on the site you cannot listen to his colorful commentary. As he went on with the lecture, his slides became progressively more statistically evidence heavy. That was a good idea because in the beginning, I was a bit skeptical about his claims.
His main argument was whether we should start using cremation emissions as a power source. He argued for but I am very doubtful whether that will ever happen because of the simple moral implications. Who would want their loved one’s remains powering up a stranger’s computer? Not many people. So that argument was soon dropped but replaced with a similar one. An Alkaline Hydrolysis machine. Its function is remarkable simple and similar to that of cremation but it is more than 200% cleaner. An Alkaline Hydrolysis machine heats up and pressurizes the body with the help of water and alkali which then speeds up decomposition. The commercial version of Alkaline Hydrolysis is a bio-cremation process known as Resomation .This automated process is dignified, takes only 2-3 hours and the ash is returned to relatives/loved ones in an urn as in traditional cremation. The main advantages of Resomation over cremation are the excellent eco-credentials, both in terms of energy saving and carbon footprint reduction. As soon as he made the “it’s greener” argument, I knew he had convinced almost everyone if not everyone in the audience that Resomation would be the future of taking care of the dead.
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