Water cremation to become available in the UK for the first time but how does it work?

'We are 65% water, so we dissolve into water.'

Director of Resomation Services at Kindly Earth, Julian Atkinson, explains the process of water cremation that is going to be made available for the first time in the UK.

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[richardwestwood]

It kind of seemed like he was swerving the question when asked what is the waste product of the process.

[PA-sscq]

Deeply mistrust any company which calls itself a pretentious virtue-signalling name like "kindly earth".

[dennism]

As soon as he said the public has an appetite for this it put me in mind of 'Soilent Green'. Guess this is the future.

[ragnarironspear]

They always have to get the climate emergency in .

[JS-JackSparra]

The question about waste product got the exact type of wishy-washy answer that has my spidey-sense tingling. “Mumble, mumble ‘water’, mumble mumble, ‘natural product’, mumble ‘carbon, oxygen’. Whisper, ‘alkali’. The very title ‘water cremation’ is one of those marketing euphemisms. In reality we are talking about caustic soda breaking down flesh into soap, liquid is poured down the drain to be treated by the sewerage system and the ground bones are presented to the family in an urn probably made in China using coal-fired furnaces so they can signal their virtue about how much gas they saved.

[DMBHomes]

That’s so funny the way he calmly says it’s water with an alkaline solution …. What he means is a very powerful ACID or Caustic solution like Sodium Hydroxide to dissolve a body leaving bones that they then grind into a powder. How do they dispose of this dissolved body caustic fluid that’s left over? Use it again ?? Eventually creating mass human caustic soup. Yuk!

[fyfe]

So rather than feed the earth naturally, you have the acid bath option. Hmmm

[mickusnickus]

The waste is not water. it is a high alkaline ph13 waste full of fats/proteins that is difficult to treat by wastewater facilities.

[kiwigal]

Ffs. Sounds like a nightmare. 4 hours to break down a human body till just bones left ??? Then bones are ground to powder?? Psycho mofos👿👎

[richardwestwood]

From what i understand of the process its no wonder activists are trying to stop this . I dont want to worry about who im drinking when i have a cup of coffee 😂

[Sazwaz]

Yeah some of us knew this was coming, there are concerns, which is why he won't say where is happening yet, they don't want activists who are against it happening causing them problems. They. Should have asked where the water goes after!! Will it be going into our water Will people be drinking the water of dead people, will it be used in our food products. Feels a bit like the soylent green movie to me 😂😂

[Martynjs]

What an absolute nonsense. Breaking down the amount of material in a human in only 4 hours means it is a volatile process - hardly good for the environment. Then there is the amount of power needed for the process itself and in the disposal of the remains and contaminated liquid (hardly just water by this stage).

[jackieo]

Anne ask him to take it to the south of England and put our politicians in it. I want proof it works.

[jane]

Basically the human effluence is throw down the plug whole and into the seas, yeah great plan.

[proudstaffyowner]

Why don’t we just throw our dead into the lion’s enclosure and save all the fuss for climate change.

[km-ugcu]

Sounds like you get dissolved and flush down Into the sewage system, he swerved that question.

[kenscholey]

So how is this water waste safely disposed of ?? Famous last words? I wouldn’t fancy drinking it !!

[AdelleOnEarth]

"Safely discharged"? Into where? Sprayed onto crops 😱or poured back into our waterways? And what if the deceased is full of toxic chemicals or is diseased, how are they ensuring / do they know that these particles completely disappear and do not carry through into the substance they will call just water.
And let's remember, water holds memory. Fire alchemises, transforms; water carries.

[nancymcgee]

There's always the sky burial with the vultures! There is no better friend to the environment than throwing your ass out in the field and letting the vultures pick you clean!

[Poultrymad]

How can they call it 'cremation'? That involves burning, which this isn't; it's dissolving the body with water-based chemicals. How do they dispose/recycle the resulting waste product? 🤢🤮