UK finds new fuel source to undercut Russian stranglehold on Europe

[Dinner]

All medical waste gets burned.

[notyoueither]

This doesn't follow as to why respect dead human bodies and not use them for fuel purposes after the consciousness has left their mortal coil.

You're expecting your own religious motivations to be the only valid ones. They're not.

Furthermore, having respect for your fellow humans in small groups or families or bands for the necessity of survival doesn't necessarily mean having respect for other humans who look differently than you or speak other languages. Why shouldn't we advocate for our band of folks to respect other band of folks, when those band of folks may have something we want or need and won't give it to us?

Because that's how humans are able to live in very large groups among other very large groups without killing one another.

[AAAAAAAAH!]

Even elephants bury their dead.

Do they bury their miscarried fetuses?

[AAAAAAAAH!]

Christian faith, for one, believes in bodily resurrection.

For other faiths, I imagine it has to do with as my wiki link indicated "concern for the dead that transcends daily life". Human remains are to be honored to remember that the person's soul/spirit/whathaveyou is still alive.

But you don't even need their physical remains to honor their memory. It's not like anyone cancels the funeral because the body couldn't be found.

[Serb]

Do they bury their miscarried fetuses?

They will bury you too, if you die.

Elephants are the only species of mammals other than Homo sapiens sapiens and Neanderthals^[36] known to have or have had any recognizable ritual around death. They show a keen interest in the bones of their own kind (even unrelated elephants that have died long ago). They are often seen gently investigating the bones with their trunks and feet while remaining very quiet. Sometimes elephants that are completely unrelated to the deceased still visit their graves.^[15] When an elephant is hurt, other elephants (even if they are unrelated) aid them.^[25]
Elephant researcher Martin Meredith recalls an occurrence in his book about a typical elephant death ritual that was witnessed by Anthony Hall-Martin, a South African biologist who had studied elephants in Addo, South Africa, for over eight years. The entire family of a dead matriarch, including her young calf, were all gently touching her body with their trunks, trying to lift her. The elephant herd were all rumbling loudly. The calf was observed to be weeping and made sounds that sounded like a scream, but then the entire herd fell incredibly silent. They then began to throw leaves and dirt over the body and broke off tree branches to cover her. They spent the next two days quietly standing over her body. They sometimes had to leave to get water or food, but they would always return.^[37]
Occurrences of elephants behaving this way around human beings are common throughout Africa. On many occasions, they have buried dead or sleeping humans or aided them when they were hurt.^[25]Meredith also recalls an event told to him by George Adamson, a Kenyan Game Warden, regarding an old Turkana woman who fell asleep under a tree after losing her way home. When she woke up, there was an elephant standing over her, gently touching her. She kept very still because she was very frightened. As other elephants arrived, they began to scream loudly and buried her under branches. She was found the next morning by the local herdsmen, unharmed.

[Serb]

You still don't get it. The worse and absolutely immoral thing in that story is that the human remains were burnt for profit.

You (as a society) start using dead human bodies as fuel to save some $ for your electricity bills, and one day you end-up like that SS b!tch who were slaughtering people to make bags and lamp-shades out of their skin to earn more profit.

[molly bloom]

It's almost a bad parody of pro-choice thinking. I wouldn't have believed it was real if the story hadn't come from a reputable source.

Channel 4 ? Bit left-wing for you, aren't they ?

[molly bloom]

Jews aren't people -> use their skin for drawstring lamps
Fetuses aren't people -> use their dead bodies to generate electricity

= Jews are foetuses ? The ones I know aren't.

[AAAAAAAAH!]

You still don't get it. The worse and absolutely immoral thing in that story is that the human remains were burnt for profit.

You (as a society) start using dead human bodies as fuel to save some $ for your electricity bills, and one day you end-up like that SS b!tch who were slaughtering people to make bags and lamp-shades out of their skin to earn more profit.

I'm sure using kidneys and livers taken from dead people is far cheaper than coming up with artificial replacements. Is that also evil?

[Serb]

Taking a liver from the dead to save another life and burning it to earn some $$$ is not the same. I believe transplantation of human organs should be free of charge, but there is a shortage and we are living in a screwed capitalist world. And the people who make money on trading human organs (mostly illegally) are even more immoral in my eyes.

[AAAAAAAAH!]

What about burning it to generate electricity that powers machines that save lives in a hospital? I'd say that's a lot more similar to organ donations than to Nazis killing Jews and using their skin for lampshades.

[Serb]

It's ok, I guess in case if you have nothing else as replacement for a fuel. But it's not the case, obviously. They are doing that for cost reduction.

[DinoDoc]

I liked your old DL better gribbler.

[kentonio]

Any society that doesn't respect its dead is doomed.

I'd have more respect for any society that doesn't say invade other countries and create more dead in the first place.

[Serb]

You picked the wrong guy then. Yanks are the current World champions in that sport.