The process - called alkaline hydrolysis - will offer families a third option instead of burial or traditional cremation.

Scotland has become the first part of the UK to introduce water cremation. The process, known as hydrolysis, offers an environmentally friendly alternative to burial or traditional cremation as the ...

Walter White got it all wrong. If you want to chemically dissolve a body, as the Breaking Bad protagonist ordered his partner Jesse Pinkman to early in the series, you don't just dump it in a bathtub ...

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Excuse the bluntness, but once we shuffle off this mortal coil, our bodies are nothing but bags of live bacteria and dead cells. We can attempt to slow our decay (embalming), or we can preempt it with ...

Alkaline hydrolysis liquefies the body using water and lye. It's considered a "greener" approach to burial than cremation. While it hasn't caught on widely yet, some consider it the burial method of ...

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Hydrolysis uses alkaline and water to break down body in a few hours and is part of demand for more sustainable funerals ...