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Water cremation and human composting could be offered instead of traditional funerals
- Earlier this week, the Law Commission published a consultation proposing legal approval of new funerary methods beyond burial and cremation in the UK.
- This proposal follows studies, including a 2019 university-facilitated trial using alkaline hydrolysis and increased interest in methods like human composting abroad.
- Alkaline hydrolysis, also called water cremation or resomation, uses water, chemicals, heat, and pressure to decompose a body in hours, while human composting involves sealed vessels and organic matter to accelerate decomposition over months.
- Co-Op Funeralcare announced in 2023 its intent to pilot resomation in the UK but halted due to regulatory barriers, and welcomed the Law Commission’s review encouraging more environmentally friendly funeral options.
- If approved, these alternatives could provide consumers with more funeral choices and reduce environmental impacts compared to traditional cremation and burial, which emit significant carbon dioxide and require cemetery space.
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Insane: Environmentally Friendly ‘Funerals’ Being Pushed; Dead Are Boiled, Flushed Down Sewer
Eco obsessives are pushing for a change in British legal regulations to allow the option for more ‘environmentally friendly’ funerals, including ‘human composting’ and a method where the deceased person is boiled in a bag, reduced to liquid and then flushed down the drain.Yes, really. This isn’t satire.The Telegraph reports that “a consultation on funerary methods by the Law Commission is proposing legal approval of alkaline hydrolysis and human…
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