Most Eco-Friendly Way to Leave Earth - Water Cremation
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Most environmental issues are caused by the living but have you ever considered the environmental impact of death? Alkaline hydrolysis, a greener alternative to burial or flame-based cremation, uses a combination of water and potassium hydroxide to decompose bodies. It doesn’t require burial space, uses 1/12 the energy of traditional cremation and doesn’t produce toxic gases or air pollutants. Motherboard spoke to Terry Regnier at Mayo Clinic to find out more about the process.
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"Water Cremation" sounds much friendlier than melted with acid. 😂
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@@honeybee7158 👍
Contaminated the water we.
How about a person's dies with disease?
I promise you wont feel a thing lol
Hydrolic Base.
"There ain't no pretty way to go." Ain't that the truth.
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Belgium at least let's you pick. All walking corpses.☠🌻
Might as well have a really good soundtrack for that corpse.🐾🎶⚰😁
Accepting it when it inevitably comes, for one. Funny thing is, the more egotistical you are on Earth and apparently "enjoys life more", the harder the departure hits.
I love how pragmatic this guy is.
He's not pragmatic, he's a salesman.
@@SorenCicchini can't be both?
The way he was holding the remains like they weren't a person before. 🥴
To be fair it's only some parts of a person. Whatever person they were before is long gone.
What do you want him to do? How else is the camera gonna see them well? How else would he get them out of the basket? Loser
They WERE a person; no longer are they!!! He didn't kill them. They're earthly life is over; if they had a soul, it is elsewhere. Mountain people in Tibet still cut up human remains of someone who died a natural death and let vultures eat the remains. The person is dead and never coming back; finality!!! If one believes in an afterlife, (I don't think it exists), God shall reunite the healthy body with the soul in heaven; not the decaying or cremated body or whatever.
He could of wore gloves before picking up someone rib
I love how white the bones are after the process. It looks like a sound alternative to me. Certainly faster than human composting and better for the environment than cremation by fire.
Then down the drain into the sewers...!!!👀
You know what would be even more ecofirendly? just burry your body in straight dirt and plant a tree on top, great fertilizer.
ELFHUNTER50 yea you would think right? 6 feet under wrapped in a sheet fuck it.
No, bodies decomposing like that in the ground can cause problems for drinking water.
Cost of land. But, you can.
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She's insightful.
@@kamehamehaX300 still requires land.
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Still the pesty living to deal with unless you have no one. We are all walking corpses.
@@Cory989 Actually the other methods cause problems to the drinking water. The chemicals from embalming.
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Can you imagine: an ebay marketplace for second hand knee replacements at a Discounted price 🤣🤣😆🤣🤣
I want my body transported to Hershey PA, enrobed in rich milk chocolate, dumped in a field and have the ants do what ants do.
That guy’s heart is in the right place, but in no way does the healthcare industry want costs to go down.
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i swear to god i was just thinking about this in the shower the other day
Lol cutie
Make it a really hot bath with a big tub of Drano (drain cleaner) and you won't need to use your imagination.
Soren Cicchini 😂😂😂😂
Yay
Better that than, the shining
What happens to the slush?
I have never heard about artificial testicles before...
your wife must be cringed if you only have one ball.
This is what being pragmatic looks like.
Pointless Elon musk projects... The economy... Military industrial complex... UA-cam makeup tutorials... Cheap lingerie made in Chinese sweatshops... Hours spent watching Mexican novellas... Drive thru fast food... Netflix...
Please just bury me in a sheet in the edge of town cemetery. That would be pragmatic.
@@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321 lmao
@@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321 Then go ahead and buy that piece of land
@@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321It would likely cost more for your burial than Alkaline Hydrolysis.
What i have learned by reading the comment section is that most everyone slept through their high school chemistry classes.
I want to have a sky burial, but as that probably isn't a possible solution, this sounds like a good second option.
Are you calling this traditional natural gas cremation?
That’s the way I want to go. I hope it will be something I can have, when my time’s up.
Or turn yourself into a tree .
I was so lucky our hometown is one of the first in NC that has it and one of the only so my mom got her wishes last year
I guess we will all be remembering you when we drink a nice tall glass of water
@@alisastokes3399 😂😂
What about a sky burial? I always thought that was pretty eco friendly no matter how messed up it seems to some ppl
KUPHSER not enough vultures to keep up with current demands
Rocket launch your body straight at the sun. Garrenteed cremation when you get close enough .
Sky burials don't work in heavily populated areas.
Why can’t we fed to lions and tigers and other carnivores as well. If we don’t have any diseases of course.
@@ninam1061 you are not serious!!!
Guys, look up Loop coffins. Another great alternative to traditional coffin. It made out of mushrooms.
how about the chemicals used? that's not green.
Why not? The strong bases used in the process are neutralized, before they're disposed of. Pouring drain cleaner down your toilet is probably less eco friendly than this.
You can find this chemical everywhere, even in your shower stuff or makeup :D and the remaining liquid could also used as fertilizer
the amount used is actually balanced out by your body, so what comes out at the end isn't much more than water and human remains anyway. the guy failed to mention one of the best bits about the remains; it can actually be used as fertiliser.
Excellent video! This is a great and upcoming system that should be utilized more often, as someone who's licensed to perform cremations and has seen the alternative, this is definitely in my opinion, a more efficient and less invasive procedure.
What is the difference between this method and mutilation of corpses?
Sign me up. That’s the only way I can be of some use in this lifetime.
Lol
Bruh you're even here
I didn't expect this to be at the Mayo clinic. I live just a few miles from there
It's really interesting, but as being super scared of drowning as I am, my ghost would never be in peace during the process
Me too but I think the water follows a soft current around your body which I imagine very relaxing :D and when your body can take the cooling process till your family found a fitting aquamation "home", than it absolutely can get rewordet with an warm cleansing bath for eternity... Damn, sry that got witchy :'D its just thoughts but maybe it might help you a bit
Idiot.
You are born surrounded by liquid, this way of body "recycling" seems full circle.
😂🤣🙏🤲👌🏿
You would already be dead. You wouldn't feel a thing. Also there are no such things as ghosts. The concept of spirit and ghost are as antiquated as the concept of religion.
It uses 1/12 to one tenth the energy of a traditional cremation but will that translate to a 1/12 reduction in cost of the funeral expense.
No, we're doing this now for someone, and it's about $4k for aquamation vs $800 for cremation. Maybe because it's new, machines are probably expensive, not everyone is doing it. But in the long run it absolutely should be cheaper.
You still have the fixed costs such as the operators
This is a very good informative film describing the water cremation process. Well done for the clear explanation explaining the benefits.
What is the difference between this cremation process and mutilation of corpses?
@@Jaxter2i You could also say that flame cremation is mutilation, and likewise burial is mutliation as the corpse gets eaten by worms. At the end of the day all bodies eventually decompose to nothing. Water cremation apart from natural burial is a more energy saving environmentally way for a body to leave this world.
I will rather be water cremated than cremated with fire.
This is not a death rite. This is industrial disposal.
Before I officially die. I wanted my organs donated and my remaining body to be studied by Science
That's what I want with mine.
How is this giant machine more eco-friendly than just burying a body in the dirt or catapulting out to sea
Did you watch the video? 🤦♀️ he explained
@@rvk6321 I did. He only explains in comparison to cremation. Title of video: "Most eco-friendly way to leave earth" 🤦♀IT AINT.
Traditional burial is typically anaerobic and hurts the soil. There is a reason only things like daisies will grow on it afterwards.
@@gljames24also if I’m not mistaken (don’t quote me on this but) that how they typically find a murder victim that’s been buried. Sometimes certain patches of dirt will look vastly different than the rest. Usually even after some time has passed.
This sounds like a good idea, but I'm not sold on reusing someone's titanium hip or internal fixation device.
I worked in a sterility analysis lab and after we soaked knee caps in media, we sent it back to clients with results as to whether their process was truly sterile. If it was, they repeated the process for that lot and implanted then in patients. The media was broth lol.
Why not? Other peoples organs are reused!
Today I found out that they make fake balls
Seems like a new alternative that is sustainable for the next generations!
You can keep a favourite bone of your loved one instead of ash. What bone would you keep?
LOL none bro!😂😂😮
Very interesting! How much is something like this costs? I’m planning to pay for my funeral expenses in advance and I was thinking about cremation since is cheaper. I was planning on having my ashes spread where I like to go hiking. Can the aquamation bones be crushed and turned to ashes or the equivalent? I don’t want my bones just sitting in the middle of nowhere 😂😂😂
Yes, as it is the same process as dealing with bones and bone fragments left after the traditional cremation process. Bones are placed in a machine called a creamulator and ground into ash.
In Urbana , Illinois its listed $1495.
Don't think its advisable to scatter....a soul still needs a 'home'. Scattering means wandering soul.
Your not gonna care where your bones are.
@@prefixsuffix souls don't exist. When you die you die. There is nothing else.
I think if they're recycling body parts that were already paid for and reusing them on others and getting paid again then they should be able to have this done at a fairly reasonable price for the families of their loved ones.
That won't happen. Implants wear and fatigue so they'd have to be melted down for reuse, and the raw material value would barely warrant fishing them out.
I find it sad that that's what the healthcare has come to.
@@SorenCicchini The doctor in the video said they were literally like new after the process so it's likely they could be reused.
@@kingzach74 they might look alright to a doctor but bacteria is microscopic and not confined to the easily seen surfaces, and fatigue cracking that can lead to structural failure as well as harbouring bacteria can take specialist non-destructive testing methods to detect. Joints wear (I think 20 years is a typical replacement joint design life) and more and more implants are being custom 3D printed to exactly fit the patients' bones. Biocompatible materials like titanium are assimilated into the body, serving as scaffolding for bone growth. This makes it very difficult to properly clean them. It's illegal to reuse implants in much of the world, so the closest they normally get is melting down the metals for recycling (I read that some pacemakers are reused on pet animals), although I was told that a stainless steel plate I had in my shoulder for a few months was donated to India so that a poor person that fractured their clavicle could have it surgically repaired.
Do the bones have to be crushed? Or can they, along with anything else that remains, be returned to loved ones as is?
Why would you want their bones? Gonna decorate with them?
@@Pashasmom1yes, actually. I plan on willing my bones to my friends & family after I pass 😊
Obviously this is like a washing machine in that the tub spins. How else would you get the bones all mixed up. If the body stays in one place while the water/acid is flushed through, the bones would still be lined up.
Why no gloves though?? 😭
Lol all those implants are a trip
This guy is like, "gee whiz, would you look at that, a jaw bone!"
And the water gets recycled into the sewer system, then people are drinking that tap water? 😨🤢🤮
Sounds delicious to me
But you're okay with piss and shit water?
@@joecramp2987 the pee and poop in water goes through cycling so many times that it does become clean drinking water so yeah: drink the pee pee and poop water guys cause it's clean
Hey- it's good enough for the embalming process. Human remains (blood, etc) gotta go somewhere during embalming too..
Tox has a good point. When they embalm the bodies, they drain all the body fluids too... so there isn't much of a difference 🤔
I specified this in my will. Luckily it's just been approved in the UK. I get to leave the world in the cleanest way possible 😊
"Down the drain and into sewers...!👀
@@johndavid5618 better than having some undertaker hacking at me and being left to rot in the ground.
Mark they all hack at you when you die, gold fillings, and etc, thats how they make their money, remember we live in sick world. "" And they dont want you to know it.."But the good thing is." ✝️ God sees everthing. "And all will be judged according to his evil works. 👺 👀
So basically melted with hot lye. I'll pass.
What difference would it make?
The results are the same: bones. The bones are put into a cremulator and that's how we get cremains.
Isn’t lye sodium hydroxide ? I don’t remember , Chem was a long time ago.
It doesn’t matter how you become it , but you’ll eventually become carbon anyways won’t you ?
Sign me up... when the time comes, of course.
What is done with the left over bones ?
What happens to the water afterwards? Biosludge
You notice they never mention the price cremation prices is crazy either way most can't afford it
Have you seen the price of a hardwood casket!?
Equalitive acceleration ?
Causally picks up a bone with bare hands
I just found out about aquamation and i absolutely want this when I die.
What happens to the water/Alkaline afterwards? Is it toxic?
Femur!!!!!
My question is the same.
This is a problem that is easily dealt with by introducing an acid to the water, which would neutralize the solution and make it safe to handle.
Why is water pollution considered more eco friendly than air pollution?
Soren Cicchini what remains are bones, and the ‘body soup’ of which the remaining acid can be easily neutralized by some base. That ‘soup’ is a fertilizer, not pollutant
@@antonisusanto8148 If it goes into the environment, it's a pollutant, and the spent liquor is typically disposed of in the municipal wastewater system. It could be used as a fertilizer, but so could digested biosolids from the wastewater (sewage) treatment plant, it just rarely happens.
Regulations vary. But usually, It's poured into the public sewage. They use just enough KOH to break all soft tissues down to the cellular level. So most of the chemical has reacted and neutralised. The remaining KOH will be neutralised when it mixes with acidic poopwasser.
@@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321 Yes, the caustic solvent will be reacted into a salt solution, but the carbon and nitrogen from the body are arguably just as polluting in the water as they would be in the air or ground, increasing the biochemical oxygen demand and treatment requirement of the wastewater. One man's fertilizer is another man's pollutant - in my part of the world we have experienced major river eutrophication issues due to agricultural runoff. I imagine that most (but not all) of the phosphorus in the body would remain in the bones, which is just as well because most municipal wastewater treatment plants do not include treatment processes to remove phosphorus.
So the question is, am I washing my hands with dead people?
Can family members request the bones be returned whole?
Just buried them with lesser cloth (no casket) is best eco friendly way
I'm a European Jew and we just get wrapped in a white shroud and put in a simple pine box (not even any metal nails used) We don't get embalmed either so it's pretty eco friendly.
That great bro.😌
I am a hindu(sanatani)
And respect Jews🙏.
Hare Krishna 🚩
@@MeraDeshPahle7 There is nothing ecofriendly about burying a body in the ground. It affects the water supply over time.
This is awesome but what is the cost and is this technology available worldwide?
Keep doing your research. It costs about the same and it depends on where your live. Each state has different laws about cremation. Check with your funeral director.
The movie "Superfly" comes to my mind
you use 1/12 of the energy, but lot's of energy was used in the making of the chemicals....
Factually wrong. Most eco friendly way would be a non-casket burial.
No you're mistaken. Burying a person in the ground damages the natural aquifers underground.
No gloves… love it😂😂
We have a very high tech cremator known as a freefall super economical and huge filters too. We have solar to assist
I need a left iliac. Lost mine to cancer
So being melted with 320 degree water. But... Where do they discard of that melted body water?
Insted of using so much energy, bury them so everything become fertiliser, simple as we muslim do, not making grave permanent/solid like others do. No air, no water pollution simply goes to where it started 😍☺️
Tooba...: You are so right! 😀
Nah I prefer the aqua cremation. Much better than taking up so much land space
@@oblongfan1 Totally agree with you. Have a nice day.
It takes a lot of space and with the rate of deaths we get and with the amount of time it takes a body to decompose, we're gonna run out land area for us to live in in the near future
Yes except the muslim cemetries have head stones. Waste of space
Wow I never knew an artificial testical actually exist! Now I know
Its a freaking marble they put in the sack after the real one is gone. It is for looks only
Wouldn't be cool to put a live person in the a Alkaline hydrolysis chamber?
And open it halfway through.
It is a kind of pressure cooker. You may make soup with remaining broth.
They clean you out , it new too me.
I LOVE this!
human soup, lovely
Show use the water after
There is no way medical profession will ever reuse the medical prosthetics recovered during AH. Too risky for infections
Just start up a soylent green processing plant.
whats the cost for one of theses machine?
So the waste water from a body goes ia pour down a drain and into our drinking water
We just did this with my dad.
I need to know where the acidic sludge goes!?
And what might the price of this service B
Back into the water supply and the food wow
Wtf are you serious?
Materials from implants could be recycled but there would be liability issues and grounds for lawsuits if a person were given a used implant that failed. No surgeon or company would take that risk.
Cremation is still better and is it cheap?
good idea, the thought of cremation is weird to me . its like you start the after life in hell through flames. not feeling it
No....
The soul needs a 'home'.
Ashes put in urn or container must be earth material. If not, soul is trapped inside artificially made urn or container. If scatter, it becomes wandering soul. That's bad.
Pretty sure this goes into our drinking water
Just bare handing everything 😅
Can we get contact of this instututiom
Umm, no thanks, ain't never been much of a soup person. Much prefer a good ole BBQ! 😆
Well at least you have a chance to be a clean person on your way out…. Even if you were horrible here on earth
Melted with alkaline, then flushed into the sewer....
Hmmm I’m wondering how that water affects the ecosystem
boiled.
Haha u should know that in Tibet there is vulture cremation
I would genuinely love that. For my body, after I'm done with it, to help another creature live on would be great. It's what is supposed to happen. We are meant to be eaten. /shrug
Waste of water? Still have bones to be broken down like cremation.
So do you hand the family a box of bones?
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE
It take a lot of heat for two hours. It take 1500 litres from what I’ve read and guess what it can go into drains.
Yeah so eco
Wauw.. Als in Holland.. Abouth..2021
Picking bones with his bare hands. Classy. 🥴🥴
Great idea it will work if they follow protocol were it comes to deposing of the waist but in countries look SA the waisted will most probably land up in our rivers
Sign me up
theres something about this guy thats not OKAY i like the method tho
So sense its greener. Refurbeshing material costs said and 1/12 the enegy costs compared to fire creamation.. Is it cheepier to do?? Theres a point they didnt touch?????