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Alkaline Hydrolysis as a means of final disposition is now gaining some notice. There is a report of a machine going into Australia.
Clearly the United States is and will be the leader in bringing Alkaline Hydrolysis to the world.
A question raised in a comment at this blog is important- Is Alkaline hydrolysis disposition by low pressure or high pressure burial or cremation?
Here is the comment:
“If 90-100% of a body is interred, is it called a burial or a cremation?
“My Latin teacher would have taken a ruler to the hand of the person who decided to use a word derived from cremāre to describe a process, alkaline hydrolysis, that provides a family with an abundance of remains, not a few ashes.
You contend the world has been misled into thinking of alkaline hydrolysis as being another form of cremation. It is time to stop this madness. A cremation uses incineration and evaporation to reduce human remains to cremains. The cremains returned to a family are comprised of roughly 75% of the pre-incineration mass of the bones or just 4-5% of the total body. The cremains contain a small amount of residue of others who have been previously cremated. Conversely, some of one cremains will be given to other families. Alkaline hydrolysis differs considerably from cremation.
With a CycledBurial(TM) and with an unsterile burial, the entire body is available to a family for interment. Unlike cremation, there is no comingling of remains with either an unsterile burial or a CycledBurial. Incineration and evaporation are not processes used by CycledLife’s alkaline hydrolysis systems.
Although Alkaline Hydrolysis has been dubbed green cremation, aquamation, bio cremation, water cremation, and natural cremation, it really is not cremation at all, it is a form of burial.
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