The Future of Death: Inside the Machine That Dissolves Corpses | WIRED Originals

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WIRED explores the inner workings of The Resomator, a machine that uses alkaline hydrolysis to dissolve bodies, a cleaner and more humane method than cremation. Subscribe to WIRED►► po.st/Subscribe...
The Resomator stands monolithic in the corner of a room in the bowels of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). It's as sterile as a hospital here, but every patient is already dead. This is the penultimate stage of their time under the care of Dean Fisher, director of the Donated Body Program at the David Geffen School of Medicine. Bodies are wheeled in under crisp sheets for disposal in Fisher's alkaline hydrolysis machine, which turns them into liquid and pure white bone.
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@kuhenelan 7 лет назад

Honestly I don't know why more people don't opt for cremation or some form of disposal like this. I mean all those cemetries take up a lot of space for people whom are no longer alive.

@mohammadhijazi4498 7 лет назад

Kukendran K. I plan on doing what my Grandfather did. An unmarked grave in the back yard with a tree growing from it The US and i assume you're from the US has an excess of land so getting buried isn't an issue. The issue is that people wanna be buried near where they lived

@macnerd93 7 лет назад

I have a family grave site in my local cemetery going back to the early 1900s. A lot of my family members are buried in it. Its where I'l lend up one day. I prefer burial rather than cremation. For me it's where people who cared about you can go and visit.

@IcelanderUSer 6 лет назад

The problem with cremation is that every ounce of carbon in the body goes up into the atmosphere as co2. Why do that when you can let the ground absorb the carbon.

@ChaserTree 6 лет назад

cremation is the worst thing you can do to someone especially someone you love you dont even know the torment this causes the soul- you after it leaves the body look up near death experiences youre fully alive and aware and they take your body and destroy it to dust god forbid

@ChaserTree 6 лет назад

Samantha Christensen the bodies of righteous people does not decay. you are a soul within the body. you are fully conscious after death and do not vanish. (watch near death experiences...I saw the one of alon anavah) the sages teach its painful for the soul to see the body be destroyed. also righteous will be brought back to life their bodies will be restored to their prime youthfulness and strength.

@TheWildheartmuse 3 года назад

We have this option here in Maine now. Just used it for a family member who was a sailor who loved the ocean. Perfect way to honor his spirit.

@Blarnix Год назад

I feel like that and spreading their ashes along Bar Harbor or Cape Elizabeth is the proper Maine send off.

@m3redgt 6 лет назад

so if you buy calciumphospate powder from UCLA you know where it comes from

@Jacinta129 5 лет назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@jenniferholden9397 5 лет назад

When I'm dead my kids want to cremate me in a cardboard box, divide my ashes between them and do with them what makes them feel most comfortable. I'm dead, it's about them not me. "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die".

@paulbroderick8438 5 лет назад

My relatives have a long history of being cremated and I wish for the same via a simple cremation. No formaldehyde or holes in the ground, the flames shall have me!!

@bryangarrison9447 4 года назад

@@paulbroderick8438 Formaldehyde ?

@backflipnicksing2983 7 месяцев назад

Then maybe you should give your kids access to dissect your body and learn human anatomy maybe they can get away with your adrenal gland and have some fun! Maybe your kids can learn extraction of DMT from your human brain !

@rhiannax5149 7 лет назад

This is no more strange than normal cremation

@WOTArtyNoobs 3 года назад

What I like about this process is that it's sterile and can handle hazardous contaminated bodies. One of the biggest problems for hospitals during the current pandemic was that most conventional crematoriums could not handle infected bodies because it needed sterilization of the equipment so that the staff did not become infected in turn. Whereas the alkaline hydrolysis process is totally sterile and the only equipment that needs to be cleaned after use is the gurney on which the cadaver was transported.

@VioletSkye19 4 года назад

I worked in surgical supplies for 20yrs & I swear this looks like the love child of an autoclave (sterilizer) and an H20 machine (washer & dryer) and I never thought I’d want to jump in either one, but hey if I’m dead then ...😇

@nomebear 6 лет назад

I live close to a very old cemetery and enjoy my walks through the park. A new component to the cemetery are the cremated remains, and area that makes much more sense.

@thatswhatshesaid.literally737 6 лет назад

🤔 *Calcium phosphate... So basically we're nothing but egg shells.* 🐣

@victoriacontreras636 5 лет назад

all we are is dust in the wind

@Jacinta129 5 лет назад

Interesting analogy but basically, yes

@Restrictted 4 года назад

In the cosmic scheme of things. We're nothing but cosmic dust.

@REVNUMANEWBERN 3 года назад

Egg shells & water,

@albertchehade9916 3 года назад

Poached, egg shells.....

@hummingbird2230 4 года назад

I hope all states will offer this soon. The way I want to go.

@charlym1645 5 лет назад

This system is not for a regular crematorium business...3 to 4 hours and wait 4 days for the bones to get dry

@sp-pz8uc 6 лет назад

You could take that white powder on the streets and ask people if they want to buy some Charlie.

@ASmith-jn7kf 6 лет назад

Michael Collier that's very insensitive and not funny.

@clarenceboddicker6679 6 лет назад

If the person who's body was dissolved into the white powder name was Charlie, you could offer that powder to drug addicts on the street and ask them if they want some Charlie and you would not be lying.

@Bomberninja 4 года назад

@@ASmith-jn7kf Oh boo hoo its the internet

@simonlevene502 3 года назад

@@ASmith-jn7kf Oh for heaven's sake, lighten up. Your name isn't Charlie, so what do you care? You're just picking a fight on behalf of people you've never heard of and who couldn't care less about it. As I write this, there are 176 comments: nobody has said "My name is Charles and I am offended by this." Would you have cared if he had offered to sell some horse instead?

@noquestionspls 3 года назад

"Just set it and forget it!"

@kidkittrell9046 5 лет назад

Can you imagine having to get inside to clean one of those. Anyone could trap you in and turn the machine on.

@PiecesOfJenus 4 года назад

I was thinking the very same thing!

@shawnsimpson970 4 года назад

We are now hiring.....

@francinemorris2957 4 года назад

That’s why the instruction manual says “clean only when disassembled@💀☠️👻.🌈🦄🙏🏽💟💟💟

@pathowlett4332 3 года назад

Exactly how I'd like to go to my reward. Really appreciate living long enough for this technology to arrive.

@JasonHauser125 Год назад

I need to add this method to my will. Cremation is fine too, but I like this even better.

@pontiacGXPfan 4 года назад

I first saw this in the remake of Superfly where Alberto was thrown in it and came out as a jar of black goo

@blakghost2023 4 года назад

I just saw Superfly 2018 for the first time last night. I was like what kind of machine is that. Bugged me out

@AkweliParker 3 года назад

Same. Watching the movie and had to look this up 😂

@BettyTheLion Год назад

"The fluid goes over to the accumulation tank." --- And then what do you do with that fluid?

@quagmire247 3 года назад

Matter is neither created nor destroyed but simply changes form. How do you dispose the biochemical waste water?

@RomanVideos1 5 лет назад

So your body tissue is being liquefied ?

@paulbroderick8438 5 лет назад

High temperature cremation flames are the most cleansing of all. Best way of all.

@dheyes803 6 лет назад

I’ve always advocated for body donation (mainly due to the fact that I am a medical anomaly because of extreme autoimmune illnesses). My remains may lead to part of the path to a cure for people in the future). Burying an easy $10K in a hole in the ground makes no sense to me. Fly my remains to California and cremate me there.

@ericfort940 Год назад

Cremate first, then fly remains to california. Unless things recently changed Hydrolysis is not legal in California.

@paulhenderson3632 5 лет назад

I think the ceigo ( think that's how you spell it) is better. It turns the human body into mushrooms..ITS THE MOST ENVIRONMENTAL CHOICE FOR CORPS DISPOSAL

@francinemorris2957 4 года назад

I’d imagine those left-over bits could be weird for the family..., I mean like torn between just throwing it away yet feeling like throwing away a piece of your kinfolk🤷🏽‍♀️🌈🦄🙏🏽💟💟💟

@robertwalker7924 Год назад

thankyou for that explanation.

@jackyblue67same10 5 лет назад

Wonder how much that cost cause that's the way I'd like to go out

@julianrafalko313 4 года назад

It is free if you donate your body to science.

@julianrafalko313 4 года назад

He doesn't mention how much energy alkaline hydrolosis takes.

@TraveleronMywayHome 6 лет назад

Is this the level of artificiality that we have reached? Bury me in the ground with nothing else, so that everything I borrowed will be returned.

@isav5162 5 лет назад

Well I think the most eco friendly option is a natural burial

@amesavis 6 лет назад

so what happens to the liquid? the solids? how come we can't just bury people without anything and let the truly natural process biodegrade them? wouldn't that be the most green way?

@amesavis 6 лет назад

Indeed, surrender to the ubiquitous bacteria who were here at the beginning of time. I have a hunch that in victorian times with rise of garden cemeteries and frequent family visits, that the collapsing mounds of earth created by the deteriorating bodies and wooden coffins made the ground uneven and unsafe; thus the creation of the metal or concrete vault to preserve the evenness of the ground and the horror that the loved one is actually turned to dirt under your feet. There is an old cemetary near me in the middle of a field and the ground is very odd, full of lots of depressions and in some places a strange crunchy feeling.

@sterlingodeaghaidh5086 6 лет назад

The liquids are run down the drain to a waste treatment site or a biohazard unit, the solids are pulverized and either returned to the family or they are interred in a mass grave.

@amesavis 6 лет назад

thank you @@sterlingodeaghaidh5086. now pronounce that last name for me

@sterlingodeaghaidh5086 6 лет назад

amesavis It’s pronounced “O’Day”

@IRLWojak 5 лет назад

Haven’t you heard of SOILENT GREEN?

@GaiasRebirth Год назад

So when we get soilent green? Its just a matter of time...

@withchza 6 лет назад

Superfly brought me here. Poor Adalberto!

@blacklion1691 6 лет назад

Me 2 im watchn it now 😂😂 wanted to know what it was

@jerryedwards8519 6 лет назад

Saw movie and the seen

@markbrown7766 5 лет назад

withchza lol me too

@justgetithowulive 5 лет назад

You can't forget that's how scatter went to lol

@tommydavis4027 5 лет назад

Yep, me as well

@jalaprabhu314 4 года назад

When you de-link/detach your feelings/emotions that are cultivated through generations's of religious/ethnic beliefs/assumptions you can see clearly how good is this type of disposal.

@bryangarrison9447 4 года назад

What happens to the Fluid that is Collected?

@markflint2629 3 года назад

Down the drain

@wildturkey5838 2 года назад

How much electricity is consumed in making the caustic soda used in the process? Might make a big difference in the "Carbon Footprint" of the process.

@mayramanzo1995 Год назад

It uses much less energy than a regular cremation machine does. And it doesn't emit all these crazy games into the air.

@coralsuitepeace 3 года назад

Printing out my cadaver donation form now.......

@cateng767 5 лет назад

He says it's the most environmental cremation- but what about water cremation? or natural decomposition

@ISellGrapeSoda 5 лет назад

This is water cremation

@rachelparks2538 6 лет назад

Are the ashes given back to the family and can Calcium Phosphate be sprinkled into a tree, like a Dogwood or Crape Myrtle? Where are the locations in the US?

@austinbarten7475 4 года назад

I like that idea great job on the video

@Blarnix Год назад

Am I sick for wanting to see a time lapse of a see-through one?

@Mark-lj1dj Год назад

I actually requested this in my will if available. Luckily its just been legalised in the UK. I'm so glad that when I die it will cause minimal pollution and not take up precious space in the ground 😊

@PatBatemanAtDorsia 7 лет назад

the actor Patrick Espirit's doppelganger discovered.

@simonlevene502 3 года назад

Or Margaret Hamilton.

@brookeburnsb7620 2 года назад

I prefer this to cremation and/or burial. I saw Ask A Mortician's video about this a couple years back.

@justbargelle 11 месяцев назад

What I don’t like about this is that I heard they now use the powderized corpse to mix with foods such as cool aid juices. How true?

@shrubbie1 2 года назад

Wow, I can end up as fertilizer for my garden ...neat...🌻

@nicolasp1364 2 года назад

yet when the aztecs did it they call'd them savaged and cannibals

@MrScottChristie 4 года назад

When can we be cryogenically frozen and then shot and exploded into tiny pieces like in the movie Demolition Man?

@miekept243 4 года назад

you already can. it's called promession. thank me later

@wireduk 7 лет назад

Read the full, in-depth feature here: www.wired.co.uk/article/alkaline-hydrolysis-biocremation-resomation-water-cremation-dissolving-bodies

@henkzaanstad2256 2 года назад

Geweldig gedaan.. Binnenkort in Holland.. RESOMATION, ,,,,, Dutch.. RESOMATIE,,,,

@gloriaalvarez7725 2 года назад

I am speaking of myself, my final cost?

@barbaraadams8347 2 года назад

What is the cost of a water cremation?

@backflipnicksing2983 7 месяцев назад

So he's proud that they're not burning up prosthetics and then the doctor starts showing them off like they were scalps from war... The doctors argument for changing the cremation process was they are not burning harmful chemicals now even though they put those harmful things in our body on purpose....? Pet doctor seems so happy that he got his toys back lol

@hOurworld11 2 года назад

This is used in FERTILIZER over our food. Along with FECAL Matter & nanotech

@dmills13F 2 месяца назад

He completely skipped over the interesting part about how the body is disolved.

@julianrafalko313 4 года назад

Not only for people who donate their bodies to science, some mortuaries offer that option.

@Sparky5 Год назад

If it's cheaper, I'm in. If not, well... put me by the curb on Wednesday.

@katiesmith661 4 года назад

Wonder how well they clean out the grinder thing.

@nikkidodd2305 2 года назад

Cremulator

@MrClaudioAgostini 7 лет назад

just a little macabre...

@eternallyconfused8340 15 дней назад

... and then we sell the fluid as Soylent Green 😂

@2manycatsforadime Год назад

Pressure cooking them at 300F 67psi but oh well they and soon us are dead.

@patriciaschuster1371 2 года назад

It does not dissolve the bones. They get pulverized at the end just like i. Cremation.

@kelvendyson1508 4 года назад

Looked this up after watching the movie Superfly.

@lgaff2378 6 лет назад

I don't want to be put in a blender! 😂

@emanemanrus5835 6 лет назад

is this a sort of Mafia or Drug Cartels thing? Don't they melt their rivals' corpses in the acid since a long time?

@misssummersalt 6 лет назад

Yeah, cause being trapped under ground in a pitch black box or incinerated in an oven is a much better idea...

@blacklion1691 6 лет назад

@Frank Mgtow 😂😂😂😂 i kno right

@tealblues2723 6 лет назад

This dude is enjoying his job too much:(

@formerlygavin 6 лет назад

So what? He's enjoying his career. Working with bodies doesnt mean you always need to be sad!

@bstaznkid4lyfe392 4 года назад

You can trick someone with that bag of flour I mean ash..

@REVNUMANEWBERN 3 года назад

Can a love one get the bones back WITHOUT them being ground up??

@douglasmckinley-sr1507 Год назад

Most states require the remains not be recognizable as human remains otherwise anytime the remains get discovered and the origin is not known it would have to be investigated as a potential homicide. Hawaii might be an exception if it is related to historical burial procedures where they bury the bones

@kingderrickdanquah3627 4 года назад

When I Die Bury Me With Honour & Pride A Full Police Motorcade Escort To The Cemetery To Be Buried & Saluted Good Bye

@BlueSoulJim 5 лет назад

Great for people who prefer full body burial over cremation

@invictusmaneo464 Год назад

Já bych si dal radši tu studnu u Starky :D

@emanemanrus5835 6 лет назад

not new, ask the Mafia: they usually melt the corpse after a "job"... 😁

@gloriaalvarez7725 2 года назад

Hello, what is final COST?For next of kin,(SON).if i decide this to go?

@denisemarie3636 Год назад

I saw a few videos on this and one made me sick. They grind the bones up and sell to use as calcium phosphate and from their protein shakes ? There is no way I would do this.

@cherylchristine4110 6 лет назад

does it hurt if ur alive

@redmen2822 5 лет назад

Just straight up bury me

@persistentapparartionkitty5830 3 года назад

Looks like a washing machine...

@perryzheng8372 4 года назад

its better if i were to be left to rot on the streets rather than be dissolved in this monstrosity

@doreenlopez1652 Год назад

Can you imagine if the Mafia, Cartels or the Clinton's got a hold of one of these machines...😮

@SmackWaterJack001 3 года назад

Where does the fluid in the barrels end up ?

@SmackWaterJack001 3 года назад

@Mirror of Time So, into the sewer... Thanx for your reply...

@SmackWaterJack001 3 года назад

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@SmackWaterJack001 3 года назад

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@PuffleFuzz 4 года назад

I’m so doing this.

@AltonRowell-gb1lb 6 лет назад

Is there a catalytic converter involved? ?.? Is obd2 check done.

@2manycatsforadime Год назад

it was stolen, gone in 30 seconds

@salemssorrow633 5 лет назад

Here from superfly

@demetrio3d239 4 года назад

Fisher and Sons.

@antoninorex5857 Год назад

So UCLA has this course???

@JoseDominguez-vb1lz 6 лет назад

So where do you get rid of the toxic liquid that's pumped into the plastic 55 gal drums? I imagine it is still toxic.

@markbrown7766 5 лет назад

Jose Dominguez it goes into our water supply

@markflint2629 3 года назад

Not toxic Everything is destroyed including DNA 🧬

@pamelahowe1870 Год назад

Can someone tell me what they do with the remains the powdered bones and the liquid where is it disposed of? Please tell me they dig really deep hole in the desert and pour it there far away from the rest of us or like somebody said pour it over family grave stones because that’s already a cemetery

@joand3767 20 дней назад

Yep Im watching this today for the first time hearing about it. I'm not seeing any answers about where the liquid goes. Somebody sent me a link using this video with different audio voiceover saying that we're all consuming human meat now, and all the comments were believing that no questions.

@rickymyers5219 5 лет назад

Would it matter Dust though are and dust though shall return am

@johnkosheluk1041 6 лет назад

What happens to the fluid left over does it do down the drain

@josephbennett3482 6 лет назад

john Kosheluk yes. They put everything into the sewage system and it goes to the treatment plant. So technically everyone has liquefied people in the water that people use for drinking and showering and other things in our lives 😲🤢

@angelmartin7310 6 лет назад

Humane? Why is that a concern if this is just for already dead bodies?

@ASmith-jn7kf 6 лет назад

Angel Martin just because someone is dead doesn't mean they should be mistreated. Are you serious??

@razrv3lc 6 лет назад

A lot of it is for the family's peace of mind. I would rather think of family members being gently removed by water and chemical reactions than just burned by flames into nothing.