dead body disposal

1. DISPOSAL OF DEAD BODY
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2. What lies underneath it?
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3. The remains of individuals
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4. Disposal of dead is done by various
methods
• 1. Incineration
• 2. Burial
• 3. Water submersion
• 4. Cannibalism
• 5. Body donation
• 6. Body world display
• 7. Left to be eaten away by vultures/Ariel burial
• 8. Hydrolysis/dissolution
• 9. Freezing with liquid nitrogen
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5. Christianity, especially the orthodox
church
• Teaches that the human
body will rise at the second
coming of the Lord, to
attain the blessedness of
the heavenly kingdom
together with soul or to
suffer the result of
rejecting God.
• There fore we must respect
the body even after death
• Respect is shown by
burying the body and not
burning it.
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6. •Burial in cemetary or churchyard
•Pyramids, catacombs ( are deep tunnels
commonly found in rome, italy)
•Graves are 4 n half feet deep and 18 inch of soil
above the casket

7. Buddhism teach that
• The dead bodies should be
burnt to release the soul
which is bad with the hope
that they will be
reincarnated into a better
one…..
• Incineration is the mode
of disposal
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8. In Hinduism
• The dead body is considered to
be symbol of great impurity,
hence minimal physical contact
with the dead body is
maintained, perhaps to avoid
the spread of infections or
germs.
• They burn the body after
death.
• Believing that body is made up
from five
elements,panchbhuta;
fire,water,air,earth and
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9. •Prevalent since 20000 yrs
Electric cremation:
•Commissioned in jan 1989
•Cheap as compared to traditional funeral.

10. After burning the remains are spread out in
the rivers- water disposal
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11. In Zoroastrians
• Fire is considered as god,
which is pure
• The dead body is impure, they
don't want to mix the impure
body with the fire.
• They leave their dead bodies
on the top of their temples, to
be eaten away by vultures.
• They believe it is meant for
them and they were created
for eating the human flesh.
• Ariel burial is done.
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12. Zoroastrians (known in India as Parsis)
• Regard sky burials, in which the bodies are
exposed to natural elements including
vultures in open-topped “Towers of Silence,” .
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13. Cannibalism
• It is prevalent in Brazil, Africa and parts of
India.
• The dead body is eaten while burning, the
Aghori sect in India eat human flesh.
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14. Disposal by water submersion
• Recently after the Abbottabad episode the
body was disposed of by water submersion.
• It may happen when an aero plane crash
occurs over the oceans, all bodies were
washed out or eaten away by aquatic life.
• The body decomposition occurs faster in
water rather than during earth burial.
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15. Body donation
• Is another way of disposal of body.
• It is done for the learning and research of medical
fraternity.
• It is a great service for humanity, during life the person
is allowed to donate his/her body after their death to a
nearby medical hospital or college/research center.
• The body is utilized for preparing future
doctors/professionals, after being embalmed.
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16. Body world display
• It is also another way of disposal/ usage of dead.
• The dead body is preserved by means of
plastination process of the entire body after
performing desired dissection and attaining
different positions and postures.
• It takes 1000 to 1500 human hours to prepare a
body by plastination.
• The water content of the human body is removed
by dehydration and replaced by plastiene
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20. Hydrolysis or dissolution
• Disposing of human bodies in a lye solution
dissolves tissues into a sterile, syrupy
substance that can be safely flushed down a
drain.
• The process, known as alkaline hydrolysis is
made use of in the disposal of cadavers.
• The University of Florida at Gainesville and the
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. the hydrolysis
is used to dispose of the cadavers.
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22. Freezing in liquid nitrogen
• It involves freezing the body, dipping it in liquid
nitrogen and gently vibrating it to shatter it into
powder.
• The technique was conceived by a Swedish
biologist, Susanne Wiigh-Masak, who said:
"Mulching was nature's original plan for us, and
that's what used to happen to us at the start of
humanity - we went back into the soil.
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