Sask. funeral home offers Canada’s first fire-free cremation, dissolving bodies with water instead

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Sask. funeral home offers Canada’s first fire-free cremation, dissolving bodies with water instead
Topic Started: Mar 5 2016, 08:42 AM (174 Views)
Darcie	Mar 5 2016, 08:42 AM Post #1
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Quote: When Drew Gray was preparing to offer Canada’s first alkaline hydrolysis — or water cremation — service, he wasn’t sure how well people would take the idea of their loved ones’ remains being dissolved. “We initially thought there might be a little bit of reticence, because it’s different,” Gray said. More than three years later, he estimates 80 per cent of clients looking for cremation go with the water method over the traditional flames, he said. “Once they realize what it is, it’s quite well-adopted.” http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/sask-funeral-home-offers-canadas-first-fire-free-cremation-dissolving-bodies-with-water-instead I would prefer water.



Trotsky	Mar 6 2016, 01:52 AM Post #2
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	"Alkaline hydrolysis" sounds awfully like a bath in LYE, the old fashioned way of getting rid of a spouse. Quote: It is also slightly cheaper because the body doesn’t need to be in a container to be cremated or a coffin to be buried. Why does a body need a container in which to be cremated? A bed sheet would seem to do the job well enough. Edited by Trotsky, Mar 6 2016, 03:19 AM.



blizzard	Mar 6 2016, 06:48 AM Post #3
Gold Star Member Posts: 4,152 Group: Member Member #1,012 Joined: July 8, 2013	It is a lye and water bath. No idea why a casket is used for cremations, most likely a way for funeral homes to rake in more money. I would consider a remains water disposal system,it is not cremation, I like the idea of not needing the body not being embalmed nor in a casket. Wrap me in silk and away I go.



Trotsky	Mar 6 2016, 09:52 AM Post #4
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	If I could afford one of those Dracula type crypts I would go for being put in a casket and laid on a slab. Better yet, just lay me in my Laz-Y-Boy in a mausoleum. On the lye bath method: What do they do with the leftover slop? Edited by Trotsky, Mar 6 2016, 09:53 AM.



Durgan	Mar 6 2016, 11:40 AM Post #5
Veteran Member Posts: 13,273 Group: Gardening Guru Member #720 Joined: March 31, 2010	Probably throw the residue in the sewer or spay it on farmland. Actually I am very impressed by the method.



heatseeker	Mar 6 2016, 12:00 PM Post #6
Veteran Member Posts: 10,320 Group: Member Member #713 Joined: March 30, 2010	I want to find a funeral home that will agree to stuff me into a cardboard box before consigning me to the flames, or better yet, just throw me in nekkid.



Alli	Mar 6 2016, 12:04 PM Post #7
Mistress, House of Cats Posts: 4,732 Group: Member Member #711 Joined: March 30, 2010	Not for me thank you very much.... I already told a couple of friends I 'd meet them in Epping Forest in the UK where they are both scattered near the path of Blue Bells.... And me what they'll pour a jug of sludge? oooh 02 When my mother was cremated she was not embalmed she died she was cremated a few hours later at the funeral home.



Durgan	Mar 6 2016, 12:28 PM Post #8
Veteran Member Posts: 13,273 Group: Gardening Guru Member #720 Joined: March 31, 2010	heatseeker Mar 6 2016, 12:00 PM I want to find a funeral home that will agree to stuff me into a cardboard box before consigning me to the flames, or better yet, just throw me in nekkid. In 1984 the funeral people picked up the body of my wife from our bed and wrapped her in the sheet. She was cremated in that with no fuss or muss and minimum expense.



heatseeker	Mar 6 2016, 12:49 PM Post #9
Veteran Member Posts: 10,320 Group: Member Member #713 Joined: March 30, 2010	Where was this, Durgan?



Durgan	Mar 6 2016, 01:07 PM Post #10
Veteran Member Posts: 13,273 Group: Gardening Guru Member #720 Joined: March 31, 2010	Toronto. Corner of Keele and Finch. She died at midnight and I called the Doctor who had to clear the body for removal. She came and I called the funeral home and they came about 4 and removed the body. Edited by Durgan, Mar 6 2016, 01:10 PM.



Trotsky	Mar 7 2016, 03:42 AM Post #11
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	Quote: When my mother was cremated she was not embalmed she died she was cremated a few hours later at the funeral home. I went with a direct cremation for my mother. They said that state law (PA) demanded they hold the body for either 24 or 48 hours in case of the need for an investigation or autopsy. (It has been 23 years and I STILL have not decided what to do with her ashes...but then I have said often that I am the world's worst procrastinator.) Edited by Trotsky, Mar 7 2016, 03:45 AM.



Trotsky	Mar 7 2016, 04:21 AM Post #12
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	I wonder how long it takes to dissolve a body in a strong lye solution. <I think logic demands that the Soylent Green approach will eventually hold sway, i.e., making corpses into vitamin enriched burgers. Wasting all that protein by either incineration or saponification (making soap from body fat + lye) seems too wasteful for an overpopulated planet. Not kidding here.> Edited by Trotsky, Mar 7 2016, 04:22 AM.



Durgan	Mar 7 2016, 04:47 AM Post #13
Veteran Member Posts: 13,273 Group: Gardening Guru Member #720 Joined: March 31, 2010	Trotsky Well there certainly is no indication what is done with the left over fluid.



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