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Fast Company has misfired on Green cremation. Putting out erroneous information on the new Green Cremation Process does not help the New process that will help the Earth, the Funeral Consumer(with cost) and the Funeral Director.

Here is a Snippet from the Fast Company Article:

Or Resomation’s process, which breaks down corpses with alkaline hydrolysis. The latest green cremation tactic to come down the pipeline–decomposing flesh and organs while leaving bones intact–isn’t much more comforting.

Dubbed Aquamotion, the eco-cremation scheme has corpses dunked into potassium-filled steel containers that are heated up by water, dissolving everything but the bones in four hours. The process has a number of benefits–it uses just 10% of the energy of a traditional cremation and preserves artificial implants for reuse. (Who doesn’t want a hip implant from a cadaver?)

The process isn’t exactly new. The Aquamotion website explains:

Aquamation has virtually taken over as the preferred method of disposal of diseased animal bodies in the USA and Europe. The method has been used since 1992 to dispose of animals with diseases such as mad cow disease or scabies. While cremations and burials fail to destroy these diseases, aquamation is the only acceptable method that effectively removes the risk of further spread and contamination.

via www.fastcompany.co

First the process is called Aquamation, not Aquomation at the Acquamation Industries website.
Secondly in the completed cremation process bones are reduced to ash. In a complete resomation(alkaline hydrolysis) process bones are reduced to ash as well and returned to the family just as in a traditional cremation.
Thirdly, Widespread use in the USA, and Europe as a means of disposing Animals is definitely disputable.
Fourthly, Aquamation Industries has a Low Pressure cremation machine. There is no proof the machine or one like it has been used on humans in Australia or anywhere.
Fifthly any form of final disposition is gross. Alkaline hydrolysis water or  green cremation is less gross than embalming-take it from an embalmer.
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
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If Green cremation is ugly, embalming is uglier. If Folks object to the water by product of green cremation,  resomation, alkaline hydrolysis, water resolution, bio cremation going down the drain, should not embalming receive a greater objection.

Now in Green cremation the water by product can go down the drain, or be used as a fertilizier, with the permission of the family of the deceased.

embalming is uglier than green cremation

In a traditional  fire cremation the by products are sent up into the atmosphere.(not a good carbon footprint) In an embalming in  most states, the blood of the deceased goes down the drain, along with some excess carcinogen formaldeyhde a much worse carbon foot print.

The formaldehyde in an embalmed burial  also remains with the body in the grave and eventually goes into the earth!

Last week as the green cremation process was introduced in various articles around the world, comment after comment came with the cry soylent green-a reference back to a 1973 MOVIE that folks of the older and younger generation remember where there was a food shortage and dead folks were converted to food! -”Soylent green is people”- cannibalism.

That is not what happens in a green cremation or resomation.

Snippet from the original article in Chemical and Engineering News:

The Resomation process breaks down a corpse using alkaline hydrolysis instead of extremely high heat. The body is placed in a steel chamber along with potassium hydroxide at high pressure (10 bar) and a temperature of 180 °C, which is 80% cooler than a standard crematorium, Sullivan notes.

The raised pressure and temperature increase the speed of the alkaline hydrolysis reaction so that the body reaches a similar end point as in standard cremation—just bones left to be crushed up—in two to three hours. The alkaline hydrolysis method “has a much lower carbon footprint than cremation” because the tissue is not burned and the process also uses an eighth of the energy required for cremation, Sullivan says. Any dental amalgam remains in the vessel after the process and is easily separated from the bone ash and sent for recycling, he adds.via pubs.acs.org

Missed in articles around the world was any mention of the lower cost, lower pressure, lower heat green cremation machines made by cycled Life or Eco Green Cremation System, Inc.

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Saturday, July 17th, 2010
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Now after you die You Can Easy Ride to Absolutely Nowhere, or beyond the Grave.
A funeral home in Puerto Rico recently embalmed the body of a young man and placed him on a motorcycle looking as if he was ready to roar through the streets.

David Morales was arranged in a hunched-over racing position on the bike. The 22-year-old shooting victim was clothed in black with sunglasses and a cap. The superfluous helmet was placed on the seat behind. Wake attendees filed by with their cameras flashing.

The San Juan Marin Funeral Home made international headlines two years ago for embalming a 24-year-old man standing up and then putting the body on display for a three-day wake.

posted by Karen Jones author of DEATH FOR BEGINNERS Your No-Nonsense, Money-Saving Guide to Planning for the Inevitable
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“This  an example of  new poses for the embalmed body video- photo shoot and Funeral Personalization.”-yourfuneralguy


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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
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A green light has been given to Home Funerals in Minnesota with new legislation that has been passed this past week. Obstacles to doing a Funeral at home in that state  have been removed.

Minnesotans can grieve their dead without embalming them, and then invite neighbors and friends into their home for the funeral, under legislation Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed into law this week.

The change allows families to skip embalming and hold a public viewing or service up to four days after the death.

Until now, if anyone other than family and close friends attended, the state required the body to be embalmed.

The new law also allows children to be in the presence of an unembalmed body, which had been illegal, and expands the types of transportation that families can use to move bodies. The old law required the body be in the same space as the driver, essentially mandating use of a hearse.

We had a lot of old laws on the books that were based on superstitions and inaccurate information,’’ said State Rep. Carolyn Laine, DFL-Columbia Heights, chief author of the bill. “We allowed some home funerals, but only for family and close friends. Well, now we can invite the not-so-close friends and skip the embalming.’’

The law, which goes into effect Aug. 1, requires the body to be on dry ice if more than family will attend the service.”

-via www.duluthnewstribune.com

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Saturday, April 24th, 2010
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Minnesota may pass legislation allowing families to care for their own dead. There is a bill that would allow the public to care for their own dead. This is a step forward for the home funeral movement and provides a lower cost funeral alternative for the general public. As economic trouble in the nation continues more and more folks are returning to lower cost funeral(s), and for some the home funeral.

“Carolyn Laine, DFL-Columbia Heights, is sponsoring a bill that would allow families to wash, dress and transport their dead, keep them on dry ice for several days and to host larger viewings than permitted by current law.

The measure, which has a bipartisan group of 22 co-sponsors, passed the House Health Care and Human Services Policy Tuesday on a voice vote. It next moves on to the full House.

The law( Minnesota) now requires bodies to be quickly embalmed or cremated after death and limits who can view unembalmed bodies.

Recently widowed Heather Halen, of Minneapolis, said her ability to wash and dress her husband continued the intimacy they’d shared during his life. She kept his body at home and invited family members to visit.”via www.startribune.com

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Death, state Rep. Carolyn Laine, said Tuesday is frightening.

“We are always afraid of the unknown,” she told fellow lawmakers. But the fear — and the law — should not prevent families from “reclaiming” the care of their dead loved ones, she said.


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