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Canadians Breathing in Ashes of Dead People

treehugger.com — Looks like we're celebrating Halloween early this year... Residents of Ottawa, Canada, have been complaining that soot from a crematorium on Bank street has been "falling and blowing on nearby homes" and making it impossible to open windows or sit outside. A resident said: "It makes you feel like you're breathing in the remnants of a ... dead body.

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  • chrissku, on 10/02/2009, -1/+59"It makes you feel like you're breathing in the remnants of a ... dead body."



    Ummm....you are breathing in the remnants of dead bodies
  • wem003, on 10/01/2009, -3/+57"I breathe dead people...."
  • wonderchemist, on 10/02/2009, -0/+18I'm sure people are beathing in the CO2 from the combustion of dead people all the time.
  • THMike, on 10/02/2009, -1/+15I live in Ottawa. Glad I don't live in that area... dead people on your peanut butter toast must suck.
  • elliotys, on 10/02/2009, -0/+11Isn't this how Kenny got inside of Cartmen?
  • vaticdart, on 10/02/2009, -1/+11Um, wow. Soot ≠ ashes.

    Soot is a buildup of carbon from a poorly combusting fire. Furthermore, I'm not a funeral director nor have I worked in a crematorium but I would GUESS that the coffin and body is placed in a sealed oven that does not vent into a chimney. All this means is that the fire they're heating the oven with is burning badly.

    Worth complaining about but it has nothing to do with breathing in incinerated bodies.
  • derekmarkham, on 03/15/2010, -2/+11Turns you into a zombie?
  • Speedy7, on 10/01/2009, -1/+9Holy crap. That was so lame.

    My jokes suck ass. (From dead people)
  • OnShakedown, on 10/02/2009, -0/+8zombie dust!
  • BaphClass, on 10/02/2009, -0/+8I know, I thought the days of grandpa being inside me died with him. That rotten, dirty old bastard.
  • biofriendlyblog, on 10/01/2009, -4/+11That would just suck!
  • Phil13, on 10/02/2009, -1/+7So is ground up rat fecal matter, care to have any applied to your ice cream?
  • justok, on 10/02/2009, -0/+5Just atoms...and dave...and caylee...and nathan...and...
  • predatorpasta, on 10/02/2009, -2/+7no matter how long ago, still too soon!
  • themastersb, on 10/02/2009, -0/+5By breathing in our dead we gain some of their experiences and grow stronger.
  • Mujokan, on 10/02/2009, -0/+4Kind of like: "Every time you drink a glass of water, you are probably imbibing at least one atom that passed through the bladder of Aristotle. A tantalisingly surprising result, but it follows by Huxley-style organized common sense from Wolpert's observation that "there are many more molecules in a glass of water than there are glasses of water in the sea" http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dawkins/lecture_p8 ...
  • DryCat, on 10/02/2009, -0/+4Most people working in Ottawa are civil servants so mindless zombies would blend in pretty well.
  • evilregis, on 10/02/2009, -0/+4Canada's new army.
  • stuffradio, on 10/02/2009, -2/+6emphasis on the ARE
  • ShiftyBizniss, on 10/02/2009, -0/+3"...people that believe they're too good for their own good."
    Read that aloud and think about it for a second...
  • effedup, on 10/02/2009, -2/+5Yes, everyone in Canada lives in Ottawa
  • pstroll, on 10/02/2009, -2/+5It's just atoms folks.
  • daEvan, on 10/02/2009, -0/+3It's only a matter of time before the zombies come marching from Ottawa.
  • strictnein, on 10/02/2009, -1/+4Detroit has too many corpses, Canada likes to smoke dead bodies. Match made in heaven!
  • strictnein, on 10/02/2009, -0/+3Burned up Canadians?
  • lionel1024, on 10/02/2009, -1/+4Wow... just... wow...

    dugg
  • inactive, on 10/02/2009, -0/+3Why the hell are they complaining? The dust is free!
  • inactive, on 10/02/2009, -1/+4uhhhh. . . yes
  • gerryk, on 10/02/2009, -0/+3What do you think fruit and vegetables, not to mention meat, are?
  • WocCixelsyd, on 10/02/2009, -1/+4It's just carbon dust at that point. No different than the ash from a wood fire or the smoke from a car.
  • EddiePotato, on 10/02/2009, -0/+2Folks need to understand that Earth is a relatively closed ecosystem, chemically speaking. The waste from one process inevitably becomes food for another process. That's why spewing exotically refined or synthesized chemicals into the environment is so bad: we're going to eat/drink/breath it all like a big fancy cocktail eventually.
  • Mujokan, on 10/02/2009, -0/+2There was a theological argument in the Middle Ages that Aquinas agonized over. Say a child is brought up as a cannibal, eating only human bodies his whole life. On Judgement Day, how can he be given his body back, since it will have to be distributed among all the people he ate? Aquinas decides that God will give him a brand new body.

    This is the sort of stuff they used to worry about... Battles over whether two human and the divine natures of Christ are joined in conjunction or hypostatic union...
  • inactive, on 10/02/2009, -0/+2soylent green airborne edition?
  • Mujokan, on 10/02/2009, -0/+2Syllogism fail.
  • stuffradio, on 10/02/2009, -1/+3No, it's extra nutrition
  • strictnein, on 10/02/2009, -0/+2"NecroSexy"?
  • diggbigwig, on 10/02/2009, -0/+2/whisper/ I smell dead people.
  • EddiePotato, on 10/02/2009, -0/+2Deeeeeeeelicious!
  • cor315, on 10/02/2009, -0/+2Well if you really wanna get technical, I'm pretty sure we're eating dead people too.

    Ah the circle of life.
  • Rikushix, on 10/02/2009, -0/+2No, the House of Commons holds robots. It's the Senate that holds the army of the undead.

    Jeez.
  • Coffeedemon, on 10/02/2009, -0/+2That is about 5K down the road from where you'd find bars on Bank.
  • digitalArtform, on 10/02/2009, -0/+2When I was a kid I remember reading that every breath you take contains a molecule from Julius Caesar's last breath.

    ---

    http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=e ...

    :D
  • denizen42, on 10/02/2009, -0/+2New food group?
  • Claude1971, on 10/02/2009, -0/+2lol
  • Claude1971, on 10/02/2009, -0/+2and Americans are retarded rednecks, but hey, to each there own
  • Coffeedemon, on 10/02/2009, -1/+3Ottawa is in Canada. This makes Ottawanians (or whatever) Canadians. Ottawanians (I kind of like it now) are breathing in ashes of dead people on a semi-regular basis. Ergo, Canadians are breathing in ashes of dead people on a semi-regular basis. Nobody ever implied that they all were.
  • brownsound00, on 10/02/2009, -0/+2There's an army of zombies in Ottawa already. They come from the House of Commons.
  • MrCapo, on 10/02/2009, -16/+18America - Take this as warning sign and what REALLY happens when you have a public option in Health Care. Seriously. Dead bodies end up in your home and the air is no longer safe to breathe.

    Say no to public health care.

    /s
  • mikepictor, on 10/02/2009, -0/+2dug.

    Would dig again.

    and I live in Ottawa
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