{"id":1775,"date":"2018-11-27T14:50:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T14:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resomation.com\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2019-10-08T09:37:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T08:37:18","slug":"funeral-service-times-resomation-the-flame-free-cremation-that-could-be-coming-to-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resomation.com\/news\/funeral-service-times-resomation-the-flame-free-cremation-that-could-be-coming-to-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral Service Times: Resomation: the flame-free cremation that could be coming to the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Resomation is a flame-free method of cremation which uses water to break down a corpse in a method which is deemed to be more \u2018natural\u2019 and eco-friendly than burial or a flame cremation alternative. The UK government are considering introducing this method to Britain; Howard Pickard speaks to Shekina Tuahene about the process.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Resomation was developed by expert biochemist Sandy Sullivan who had an ambition to offer the public an environmentally friendly end of life alternative to\u00a0<a title=\"burial\" href=\"https:\/\/www.funeralservicetimes.co.uk\/trade\/burial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">burial<\/a>\u00a0and flame cremation. The method he developed was a flame-free cremation, which uses water to break down the body after\u00a0<a title=\"death\" href=\"https:\/\/www.funeralservicetimes.co.uk\/people\/death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">death<\/a>. This was named resomation. The\u00a0<a title=\"Scotland\" href=\"https:\/\/www.funeralservicetimes.co.uk\/location\/scotland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scotland<\/a>-based company Resomation Ltd, was established in 2007 and from then the awareness for the process began as the organisation sought to see it introduced as a viable cremation option.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.funeralservicetimes.co.uk\/features\/2018\/09\/10\/resomation-the-flame-free-cremation-that-could-be-coming-to-the-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resomation is a flame-free method of cremation which uses water to break down a corpse in a method which is deemed to be more \u2018natural\u2019 and eco-friendly than burial or a flame cremation alternative. The UK government are considering introducing this method to Britain; Howard Pickard speaks to Shekina Tuahene about the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resomation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resomation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resomation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resomation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resomation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resomation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resomation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resomation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resomation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resomation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}