Aquamation: the greener alternative to cremation
Traditional cremation occurs when a body is placed in a furnace to reduce it to bones and other items that don't incinerate. The bones are ground up to form the cremains, or ashes as we know it. While cremation is greener in a lot of ways than traditional embalming an burial, there is an alternate way which uses less energy. Aquamation uses water and some chemicals to dissolve the body. It has a couple of advantages over traditional cremation and if you didn't know what process they were using, you would could not ell the difference since you still get the same cremains in an urn.
Speeding up decomposition
A fancy term that just means you use water and chemicals instead of fire for rapid decomposition of the body. Alkaline hydrolysis is the process that decomposes a body after a traditional burial
Religious objections
If you have religious objections to burning of the body through cremation
Aquamation is available in Austrailia, the US, and is becoming the new alternative to traditional cremation. You can still go out in style with a nice memorial service followed by having your ashes spread in one of the most picturesque spots
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