After experiencing XKCD’s problem with Wikipedia first-hand, I went from the page on canned air to the page on liquid nitrogen to the page on promession. “What is promession,” you might wonder?

It’s a new alternative to cremation, in which a corpse is frozen with liquid nitrogen until it is so brittle that it can be shattered sufficiently to render it nothing more than a pile of extremely cold dust. It’s then returned to room temperature, allowing all the water in the body to evaporate. (Metals are apparently removed from the body at this point, too.) This dried-out smashed-up body powder is then buried, much like in cremation, only there’s more dust than with cremation. The good news is that it’s eco-friendly.

Prediction: promession is not going to catch on very quickly.