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World's first water cremation centre opening in Australia | Australians in Queensland have now been given the option
of a liquid burial, with the world's first water cremation centre opening on the Gold Coast. Aquamation Industries chief executive John Humphries says the service,
at the Eco Memorial Park at Stapylton near Dreamworld, uses a process it hopes
will revolutionise the funeral industry. "Aquamation is a more natural, ethical
and environmentally friendly alternative to cremations and uses water instead
of fire to return a body to nature," the Courier Mail quoted Humphries as saying.
"And within a year we would expect you would be able to have this done anywhere
in Australia," he stated. He said the process, called alkaline hydrolysis, relies
on the same natural forces by which a dead animal is returned to nature in the
bush. "So we've put this totally natural process into a stainless steel tube where
the body is washed for about four hours; it's the same natural breakdown of tissue,
just at a faster rate, and even the Catholic church has now approved it," he explained.
Humphries said the equipment he invented was based on an experimental unit in
the US that uses extreme pressure and temperature to destroy the infectious remains
of cattle with mad cow disease. "We haven't invented the process, nature discovered
that," he said. "We've simply re-designed the equipment so the water breaks down
the cells and brings the body back to the chemical component it's made up of,
leaving only white chalky bones which are returned to the family in an urn, like
ashes," he added. He also said Aquamation costs about the same as cremation, but
without the 200kg of greenhouse gas emissions produced in a cremation. He said
the technology was also an answer to new European regulations that state mercury
pollution has to be reduced at crematoriums by 2012. |
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