When someone you love is dying, it is perfectly natural to put your normal life on hold. You might want to spend as much time with them as possible and find it hard to think about anything other than helping them through this time. You may also feel on "high alert" when you're apar...
Alkaline hydrolysis is rare today as a funeral practice for humans. Offered to the public for the first time just over a decade ago, it is now permitted and regulated in 26 U.S. states, and practiced primarily in North America, where it remains unfamiliar to most people who have lost a ...
Alkaline hydrolysis involves placing a body in a chamber that is then filled with water and potassium hydroxide and heated up to 300 degrees Fahrenheit at high pressure. After three hours, the body becomes a green-brown-tinted liquid, and bones are soft enough to be crushed. The bones can ...
Alkaline Hydrolysis Unit Tour Watch on Perhaps unsurprisingly, this process has not really taken off. It’s slower. The technology is more expensive: A stainless-steel pressurized unit can cost from $175,000 for a basic unit to $500,000 for a high-end unit, while a cremation unit costs ...
Once the cremation process is complete, the remains are put onto what looks like a silver baking tray. A technician runs a magnet over them to remove ferrous materials that did not combust during the cremation process. These often come from a person’s staples, screws, hinges, and prosthetic...