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Smiths Falls, Ont., funeral business dissolves the dead, pours them into town sewers

June 20, 2016 By CBC News

Smiths Falls, Ont. – Waterworks officials in a small town southwest of Ottawa are monitoring a funeral company that has become the first in Ontario to use an alkaline solution to dissolve human remains and then drain the leftover effluents into the sewer system. CBC News reports. | READ MORE