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he Funeral Industry needs to change, it all comes down to hurt customers. States that protect funeral directors as the  only sellers of Caskets need to give up their funeral cartel laws. There needs to be free enterprise, so that appropriate funeral costs can be applied in the current double dipped recession.

True supply and demand need to apply to the funeral industry. It should not be that Catholic monks in Louisiana are not allowed to sell pine boxes to support themselves, just because funeral directors want to protect their market.

Hurt families only result from price fixing funeral cost.

“What I’m talking about is a way to do funerals and death honestly and affordable. Not in a way where the person has to make this extremely expensive decision with a numb brain, and an air to “just get the job done”. That’s what I did. While my funeral service was great, and lovely, was it worth $10,000 for a few hours to place him in the ground? He would have hated that it cost that much to die.

The funeral business is a nasty one, plain and simple. They’re out for our money based on our weak, heartbroken selves. Something needs to change.

Plan ahead, save yourself some money. In the meantime, let’s keep aware and help our loved ones through this process in a sensible manner when they cannot make those decisions for themselves.”-via crazywidow.info

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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
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People need to realize that a memorial service can be held anywhere, a park, a museum, community center, a backyard or a home. The casket does not have to be present. This can save you lots of money on funeral cost.

Snippet from a recent DearAbby:

Dear Abby: My parents passed away within two years of each other. Instead of funerals, we held celebration-of-life services.

We created slide shows and poster boards of their lives, told funny stories about them, and had people share their stories.

- Missing Mom and Dad, Eugene, Ore.via www.dispatch.com

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Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
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Cemeteries are dying so they are turning to new ways to bring in business. THe Wall Street Journal Recently did an article on this and put up a video.

The economy has now forced the Cemetery into more public events.

Cemeteries are now turning to new and creative means to bring in dollars.

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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
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So Far no one has been able to pin down what the cost of Green Cremation or Resomation will be in Europe. The Alkaline Hydrolysis  Green Cremation Machine  cost and the funeral cost to the Consumer it is important to know.

The old funeral industry trick of keeping folks in the dark does not work in the second decade of the 21st Century.

“Undertaker Bruno Quirijnen is leading a group of North Belgium funeral directors into pressuring Belgium to adopt the method; commenting on American public radio site Marketplace on August 12, he told listeners he wishes to offer his clients a third, ecologically friendly solution after death. According to the UK company that developed the technique, Resomation Ltd, discussions between the company and ministers in the UK have already taken place, regarding the adoption of this technique in Britain.

The company was unable to give details regarding the cost of the process as prices are subject to variation.”

via www.independent.co.uk

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The process is also known as CycledLife burial, Aquamation, water resolution, water cremation, natural cremation and bio cremation.


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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
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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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