New Zealand's first water crematorium is opening in Christchurch on Friday, giving people a new option for what happens to ...

Rhode Island's House passed a bill to allow human composting for the second year in a row and "water cremation" for the first ...

Dr. Georgina Robinson, a postdoctoral research associate at Durham University, completed a thesis on the process of alkaline hydrolysis. She said the process protects the environment, using a ...

An illegal cremation method got a medical center in North Texas a cease-and-desist letter from the Texas Funeral Service Commission and its body donation program under internal review in November.

The alkaline hydrolysis on site in Manchester is low pressure and the process takes 12 hours and only one can be done a day, where as fire cremations can be done five or six a day, according to ...

Human composting is coming up to a House vote for a second year in a row as the Senate appears to let the bill languish.

Alkaline hydrolysis is the natural process your body goes through if you’re buried. Here we’ve created ideal conditions for it to happen much, much faster.” In a cemetery this may take ...

There is no tissue or DNA left after the process completes. Antwan Holt, cremation supervisor at Joseph H Brown Jr. Funeral Home, opens the lid of the vessel used for alkaline hydrolysis or water ...

Brown is standing near the vessel that is used in the process. (Kim Hairston/Staff) Joseph H Brown III, owner Joseph H Brown Jr. Funeral Home, offers alkaline hydrolysis or water cremation at ...

and alkaline hydrolysis, also known as water cremation. Natural organic reduction is a polite way of saying a body is quickly decomposed, a process usually aided by high temperatures. One of the ...