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Statement on behalf of Resomation in response to the recent news about introducing water cremation in the UK

“For some people, the news this weekend about plans to introduce water cremation in the UK may have been the first time they have heard about such an option. As a country, we sometimes shy away from conversations about the end of life, and indeed we make light of the issue to avoid having to discuss this as a serious topic.” “It’s time to start a conversation about our end of life options,...

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2017 Sept – Feature article in Wired magazine on Resomation and the alkaline hydrolysis process

In the future, your body won’t be buried… you’ll dissolve For centuries, humanity’s dead bodies have been either buried or cremated. Now, a growing movement is advocating for a cleaner, more sensitive alternative By HAYLEY CAMPBELL 15 Aug 2017 Dean Fisher, director of the UCLA Donated Body Program Photograph by Spencer Lowell The Resomator stands monolithic in the corner of a room in...

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2017 Aug – Resomation are exhibiting at CANA

Resomation are exhibiting at Cremation Association of North America (CANA) 2017 from Wednesday 16th to Friday 18th August 2017 at Grand Hyatt New York in USA. The Cremation Association of North America’s Crematory Operations Certification Program™ (COCP™) features content designed by industry experts to strengthen your success. The program is approved for up to 8 CE hours by the Academy...

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2017 May – BBC features Resomation® as a radical alternative to burial and cremation

The BBC recently published an article on their website following research done by their World Hacks team, led by author William Kremer and reporter/videographer Sahar Zand. The team specialise in finding solutions to the world’s problems featuring ‘People who are fixing the world’.   BBC Russia version The article begins: For decades, most people arranging a funeral have faced a simple choice...

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2017 May – BBC World Service feature: Greener In Death

This is a story about what happens to your body after you die. In many countries, the current options are burial and cremation, but, both methods come with significant environmental impacts. We’re running out of space for burial in many places, and cremation carries the risk of toxins and greenhouse gases being released. For World Hacks, Sahar Zand travels to the US, where they’re using a new process...

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2017 Apr – Rowley Regis Crematorium to be the first in UK to offer new green method of disposing of corpses

Rowley Regis Crematorium will be the first in the UK to use a brand new environmentally friendly method of disposing of corpses. Sandwell Council planning committee approved plans for an extension at the crematorium to house the £300,000 Resomator machine which dissolves bodies using chemicals. British company Resomation, which invented and will install the machine, is currently in talks with Severn...

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2017 Feb – Resomation to exhibit at ICCFA in Nashville, USA

Resomation will be exhibiting at the ICCFA (International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association) Annual Convention and Expo Nashville Music City Center in Tennessee, USA from Wednesday 5th to Saturday 8th April 2017. Resomation will be showcasing their environmentally friendly alternative to flame cremation which uses the alkaline hydrolysis technology. To find out more about the Resomation...

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