People Are Now Starting To Get “Aquamated” After Death, Being Buried And Decomposed In Water

Instead of being laid in a casket in the ground or being incinerated to ash, some people are requesting that their bodies be laid to rest in a machine full of water that slowly decomposes the flesh.

The process goes by several other names such as “biocremation,” “water cremation,” “alkaline hydrolysis,” “resomation,” and more. This process is dubbed as being more “eco-friendly,” according to Unilad.

Funeral Circle explains how the process works:

• Respectful placement of the body on a metal tray inside a pressurized stainless steel chamber or vessel
• Adding a solution of 5 percent alkali and 95 percent water to the vessel. An average of 80 gallons of liquid is used, adjusted for the weight and gender of the deceased
• Circulation and heating of the solution from 200°F to 300°F for the duration of the process. Due to the pressured cavity of the chamber, the liquid does not boil
• After three to four hours (or longer for lower temperatures), bodily tissues are dissolved into liquid
• The liquid is recycled through the normal wastewater treatment facility
• Only wet bone fragments on the metal tray remain, along with any medical implants the deceased may have had (e.g. pacemakers, hip replacements, and knee joints will come out whole). These residual fragments are free from chemicals or pathogens and are safe to handle
• If time allows, the bones (pure calcium phosphate) are allowed to dry naturally to further reduce the carbon footprint. If the family requires the remains sooner then they are placed in a mechanical dryer
• The dry bones are then put through a cremulator machine, which pulverizes them into a coarse white to tan powder. This is the same machine used following traditional flame cremation to produce ground ashes
• Any remains are then provided to the family

“Following aquamation, the residual liquid by-product known as effluent comprises a sterile mixture of salt, amino acids, soap, and peptides. No human DNA is evident in the water. The pH level of the fluid is then tested to ensure it can be expelled into wastewater. Most of the time, this solution is fairly clean and could even be used as fertilizer,” the funeral website adds.

On average, prices for aquamation begin at $2,000 to $3,300.

Aquamation is only allowed in select states for now, which include: Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming.

In March of last year Time did a piece on this and explained that since the cost of death continues to rise, especially because of Covid deaths they say, aquamation could be seen as a new viable option while also being purportedly better for the environment.

Will it upend global warming, which scientists have warned could wreak havoc on civilization as early as 2030 if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate? Likely not, [Caitlyn Hauke, president of the Green Burial Council International, says], but every individual effort to move the needle helps, and younger generations might be able to sway their parents and grandparents.

That’s partially why DePaul University professor Craig Klugman, who teaches a death and dying course, dedicates an entire lecture to aquamation and alternate body disposal methods. Students have told him that until things change, they don’t want to bring children into the world.

When the family was living in Hawaii, [Brighton Garretson] cleaned up beaches after school, worked with volunteers to protect local turtles, and even built a hovercraft with a friend in the fifth grade that could scoop plastic out of the ocean. His appreciation for technology and the environment made up a lot of his personality, so his parents believe he would have chosen aquamation for himself, had he been able to.

Time wrote

In 2021 the famous South African Anglican Anglican bishop and theologian Desmond Tutu – a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and a human rights and environmental activist – elected to be aquamated, reported by People Magazine.

Upon his death when he was 90, his foundation wrote:

Tutu was a living embodiment of faith in action, speaking boldly against racism, injustice, corruption, and oppression, not just in apartheid South Africa but wherever in the world he saw wrongdoing, especially when it impacted the most vulnerable and voiceless in society.

Officially ‘retiring’ from public life on his 79th birthday, Tutu continued to speak out on a range of ethical and moral issues: illegal arms deals, xenophobia, oppressed people in Palestine, respect for the rule of law, HIV/Aids, Tibet, China, Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, and LGBTQI+ rights. He also vociferously campaigned for gentler stewardship of the Earth, and against the coming ravages of climate change, a very real example of how human survival rests on our ubuntu-spirited ability to cooperate and work together.

Tutu also wrote the forward for “The Green Bible,” released by HarperCollins Publishing in 2008.

The WinePress has also noted the rise of “natural reduction” and human composting, where people are deciding to let their bodies be turned into organic topsoil and fertilizer. Colorado did their first one last year, and New York and California have also legalized it as well in a bid to fight climate change.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

People are just so weird anymore, which is putting it mildly. There is no respect, honor, and decency for life anymore; but this is the result of worshipping the creature more than the Creator (Romans 1:25) – the same idiots who believe we evolved from water are now wanting to return to it. God once destroyed this world for its wickedness by drowning them: now people are doing it to themselves once again, in a roundabout way.

But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

[5] For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: [6] Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: [7] But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

Matthew 24:37; 2 Peter 3:5-7

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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