Is it environmentally safe to dispose of ones ashes if the person was infected with the aids or HIV virus?

Answer 1

Yes. 3 reasons: 1.the virus cannot live outside the human body. 2. The high heat of the cremation process will kill it. 3. It will die off when the corpse is cold.

Answer 2

For all the damage it does, HIV is a very fragile virus. It cannot live outside the host body and can be transmitted only by direct exchange of body fluids. The most probable theory of it's origin is that it is a mutation that occurred in monkey populations in the African jungles and was spread to humans through bites that occured when locals were netting monkeys to sell. So the monkey bite would transfer the virus from the monkey saliva to the human blood, just as rabies is transfered. The big problem is that the virus can live in any body fluid and so was viable in seman and vaginal fluids. A lot more people have sexual contact than get bit by monkeys. But once the virus kills the host body, person or monkey, it dies also. With luck the virus has had a chance to send it's little offspring out into the world. And that's what it is all about, reproducing and then dying. It's what we human do also, even though we like to think we are something special. Just little virus' killing off the world we live in while we reproduce and die.

Answer 3

Yes. Given the temperature which bodies are creamated at, it more than sterilizes all the virus in the body. HIV is not a particularly versatile virus. It can only live in body fluids, it cannot survive on its own. Once all the body fluids are gone (dried up in the creamtory process), so is the virus.

Answer 4

As already stated the the virus will be killed by the high heat of the cremation but even if it wasn't HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Therefore other animals and all plants would not be affected by it.Hope this helps.