Posted on 05/23/2017 10:10:37 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Bradshaw’s offered two types of cremation: the one that everyone knows about, involving fire, and a new kind, which uses water.
A pamphlet explained that this “gentle, eco-friendly alternative to flame-based cremation” used an alkaline solution made with potassium hydroxide to reduce the body to a skeleton.
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To burn a single body, a cremator machine generates enough heat to warm a home in winter for a week, even in freezing Minnesota.
Bradshaw’s are one of just 14 funeral homes in the world to offer this “green” option. Alkaline hydrolysis is said to be much more environmentally friendly than conventional cremation.
They offer both services at the same price and say the new kind of cremation has proved an unexpected hit.
Of their customers who choose not to be buried - about half of the total - 80% opt for alkaline hydrolysis.
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“There are some folks that we deal with that are very scientifically-minded and of course, interested in that environmental piece,” she says.
“But really it’s more about their emotions at that point. I would say most of the people make that decision on a gut feeling about water being gentle.”
Is dissolving a body in chemicals really gentler than burning it?
Do people think about what goes on in alkaline hydrolysis?
“There’s a certain amount they don’t want to know,” she chuckles.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
They could sell the skeletons to party stores for Halloween.
Their idea of renewable energy?.
I’m going to be cremated in a giant pyre of used car tires.
How about just burying an unembalmed body in bare dirt and letting nature take its course?
It's all lies. The energy it takes and the chemical pollutants involved actually harms the earth.
Gorebalists are such idiots.
Should information like this be made public?
There’s one chemical that will dissolve everything except the teeth....................
Who’s leg ya got dere in da chipper?
Awesome.
OK what do they do with all the “juice” afterwards?
Put me in a box (I'd prefer that it not be fancy or expensive),put it in the ground and put a piece of stone over it containing my name (I'd like that,too,to be small and simple).
flushed down the drain..
I’m planning to be eaten by wolves.
That's one of my and my nephew's favorite films.Whenever we see each other one of us,at some point,will say...in that Minnesota accent heard in the film...."put him in the wood chipper,eh!"
Set alight with bunker oil.
I saw this method used a couple times in Breaking Bad. Very effective. Just don’t do it in the bathtub.
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