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| Should burning corpses heat the house? STOCKHOLM - Would you like the body of a dear departed relative to be used as fuel to heat the house? This is a question many Swedes are asking themselves after two crematoriums in the south of the country fuelled an outcry in national newspapers by producing energy from burning corpses. A crematorium in the town of Boras had provided heat for 60,000 people for the last six months, but it was not until a crematorium in Helsingborg followed suit that the protests started. "It is a question of respect for the deceased and their relatives," Helsingborg's Baptist Pastor Lennart Nilsson told the Expressen tabloid Tuesday. "On a cold November day recently bereaved relatives might be wondering if Aunt Astrid is heating up the house." The Helsingbord crematorium inspector argued that it was environmentally friendly while Boras energy chief Roger Bergstom played down the objections by saying the heat was not directly from the bodies. "When people are cremated it frees up dangerous materials like quick silver and amalgam. These materials have to be burnt and this is the heat that is being used," Bergstrom told tabloid Aftonbladet. |
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