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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