What is aquamation, the alternative that is promoted as “more ecological” than cremation
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, hero of the struggle against apartheid and Nobel Peace Prize winner, who died on December 26, requested that his body be subjected to aquamation.
It was "what I aspired to as an environmental activist," said the Rev. Michael Weeder.
And it is that this procedure is presented by its promoters as a "more ecological" alternative to cremation.
The technique reduces the bodies to ashes , as would happen with a cremation, but without the need for combustion.
According to the UK-based company Resomation, an "independent environmental analysis" showed that using cremation with water instead of flames reduced the greenhouse gas emissions from that funeral by approximately 35%."
For its part, the company Bio-Response, which specializes in the process in the Un...