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"vaguely disgusting" has another dimension in the modern era. I read once that by contemporary standards human bodies are essentially hazardous waste and every
by weinzierl 3y ago
"vaguely disgusting" has another dimension in the modern era. I read once that by contemporary standards human bodies are essentially hazardous waste and every graveyard is essentially a superfund site.
- ggm 3y agoWouldn't that be the formaldehyde in embalming fluid? And mercury from amalgam fillings.
- kombookcha 3y agoEmbalming is very rare in places like continental Europe, and large swathes of the non-western world has religious bans on embalming, so formaldehyde in graveyards is almost purely a problem in the anglosphere.
- hulitu 3y agoSome claim is the preservative in food.
- positr0n 3y agoAlso bioaccumulation of heavy metals.