Not related to the article, but made me think of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_dFpKZo54w
You'd have to either have read Metamorphosis, seen this episode of Home Movies, or give the video about a minute and a half to see why I thought of it.
Anyways, about your article, I had the coolest mental image when it talked about vaporizing the body and having a man-shaped cloud of bacteria and microscopic insects remaining!