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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\u2019re running out\u00a0of 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\u2019re using a new process to deal with the dead. It\u2019s been called \u201cgreen cremation,\u201d \u201cwater cremation\u201d or \u201cresomation\u201d and uses alkaline hydrolysis to mimic and accelerate the breakdown of tissue that would occur in burial. Those who invented the process say it\u2019s an environmentally friendly way to address this fundamental moment in the human life-cycle, but does the evidence stack up?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n