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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone heard of the new eco-trend where the body is dissolved in liquids?

It’s supposed to be better for the environment.  Only allowed in some states though.[/quote]
Okay, so THAT gives me the heebie jeebies.  I am fine with open caskets.  I am fine with burials.  I am fine with cremation.  I am fine with burial at sea.

Dissolving bodies in chemicals?  Not so much.[/quote]

Please don’t feel that way.  Just read the BBC article.

It explains its better for the environment.

Don’t you want to protect the environment?[/quote]

B[b]ut it’s not better for the environment[/b].  It requires a significant amount of water, which is scarce in many areas, and then the waste water has to be treated.  I have done the research in my work.  Water cremation is NOT environmentally friendly, despite what the manufacturers of these machines and the few providers of this method want you to believe.  And it is much more expensive than traditional cremation, as it requires more than 2-4x the time and significant, expensive regulatory compliance to ensure the waste water is treated properly.  It is unlikely that we’ll see the wide-spread adoption of this method for these reasons.[/quote]

That is not true!

It is much better for the environment because it has almost zero CO2 emissions/ no carbon footprint.

And climate change is the biggest environmental threat / threat to our very existence in the very near future! [/quote]

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