Even decomposition, though odious in sight and smell, is not dangerous; the bacteria that cause decomposition are not the same as those that cause disease.
It was in this cemetery where my father revealed to me the journey the human body takes after death, after the body is embalmed, after nature finally takes its course and decomposition occurs.
"There's a gap in our understanding of the decomposition process in Australia," said Professor Shari Forbes, a chemist and professor of forensic medicine at the University of Technology, Sydney, who will run the facility.
The overwhelming majority of the methane extracted commercially and 90% of what is in the air is biotic that is to say, it comes from the decomposition of the stuff of life.
At some of the larger municipal landfills, the methane produced by anaerobic decomposition is captured and used to generate electricity.
But without costly plumbing, landfills produce copious quantities of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that does more than 20 times the damage to the environment as comparable emissions of carbon dioxide.At some of the larger municipal landfills, the methane produced by anaerobic decomposition is captured and used to generate electricity.
FOR ten years now, Chinese communism has been in a state of suspended animation, or, more accurately, suspended decomposition.
Last year a Dutch study found that draining Indonesian swamps to make way for oil-palm plantations resulted in 33 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions for each tonne of palm oil produced, by speeding up the decomposition of the peaty soil.
They will measure the amount of carbon, phosphate and nitrate in the soil, together with the rate of plant growth and microbial decomposition.
It is then subject to such mathematical indignities as wavelet decomposition, multi-resolution Fourier analysis, polyphase filtering and discrete cosine transformation.
Mr Forsythe reveals that they are fragments taken from "De Rerum Natura" by the Roman author Lucretius, and concern the decomposition of the human body.
