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I like this idea. Come on Mr Bezos, I’m looking at you here!

Promession is basically the freeze-drying of your remains and then breaking the resulting lump down into a powder….we’re getting into the whole Keith Richards legend thing again here. This process was developed in Sweden by a biologist called Susanne Wiigh-Masak in the 90s, though her company Promessa Organic carked it in 2015 before it had the chance to do any freeze-drying of any actual

Now you can also donate your body to medical science and I’m reminded here of a Not the Nine O’Cclock News sketch here where a clearly ill man with massively high cholesterol visits his doctor to get some test results. The doctor asks “Would you leave me your body when you die?” whereupon the patient wants to know if his body will aid medical science. The Doctor responds “No, I want to hang you in the garden for the Tits to peck at!” And this may not be as silly as it sounds with Sky Burial being a thing in Tibetan Buddhism, where the body is left out as nourishment

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