Australian Broadcasting Corporation:

An Australian company is offering a watery alternative to cremation or burial, using a process it says ‘’totally eliminates pollution’’.
Aquamation Industries chief executive John Humphries says the process, called alkaline hydrolysis, replicates the way animals return to nature if buried without a coffin in the soil.
He says the new technology uses a combination of water, heat and alkalinity to speed up Mother Nature’s decomposition process.
“The same process is occurring here except that we put [the body] into a six-foot cylinder, we put the water in there, we’ve got a pump that swirls the water around,” he told ABC News Online.
“We heat the water up – we don’t boil it – and we raise the pH level, so what would occur in nature in six months occurs in four hours.”
The end result is a pile of ashes which can then be presented to relatives.
Mr Humphries says the process costs about the same as cremation, but without the 200 kilograms of greenhouse gas emissions.

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