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Some funeral parlours that offer the service keep quiet about it, for fear of upsetting the community.
But market research has found that while a minority will always find the idea of alkaline hydrolysis unpleasant, if it is marketed in the right way - perhaps as green cremation, bio-cremation or water cremation - a section of the public can see its benefits.
Barbara Kemmis, the executive director of CANA, the Cremation Association of North America, relates a conversation about alkaline hydrolysis with two delegates at the recent International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association Convention in Nashville.
“This person was just so disgusted by it, didn’t even want to have the conversation,” she recalls, “and the other person was like, ‘For me, that’s like a final spa treatment.’
“I’d never heard that before, but I thought, ‘OK!’
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“This person was just so disgusted by it, didn’t even want to have the conversation,” she recalls, “and the other person was like, ‘For me, that’s like a final spa treatment.’
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WE’RE DRINKING IN PEOPLE!!!
(Shamelessly nicked, and modified from Soylant Green)
***for fear of upsetting the community.***
It is not much different than spreading quicklime on the body. The ancient coffins made of limestone did virtually the same and were called “flesh eaters” or Sarcophagus.
When I’m dead, I’m dead. Who cares if they dump me in a landfill, cremate me, stick me in a box and bury me, dissolve me or make a decorative display mummy of me?
I’ll still be reassembled on The Last Day, and will have to explain my sinful self to my maker.