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Calif. Lawmakers Seek Liquefaction as Alternative to Cremation

It sounds like the stuff of horror movies -- placing a body in a steel tube and then covering it with a mixture of water and acid until most of the remains are liquefied. But it's actually a scientific process called alkaline hydrolysis that is on track toward becoming an alternative to cremation in California. Lawmakers...

Ohio Says Funeral Home Can't Use Liquid Cremation

An Ohio funeral home director who used lye and high temperatures to liquefy bodies has been ordered to stop the unusual practice, which authorities say is not approved under state law. For two months now, Jeff Edwards, the funeral director at Edwards Funeral Service in Columbus, has been disposing of bodies using alkaline...

Man's Ashes Stolen From Church Right Before His Funeral

The wife and son of a man whose cremated remains were stolen from a California church are appealing to the thief to return the ashes, but they are trying to be philosophical about the loss. Marvin Kent Hockabout, 74, of Alameda, died Jan. 21 after an extended illness. The funeral was scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday. His...

Earth Day: How to Create an Urn From Dryer Lint

(April 22) -- Cremation may be one of the cheapest funeral options around, but the folks at the funeral home make a killing on the urns. Some can cost close to $1,000 or more. If you're not dying to pay that, Oregon-based mortician Elizabeth Fournier is dying to tell you her little secret: You can make a very personal...

'Green Reaper' Wants US to Be Green to the Grave

(April 22) -- Being dead as a doornail is apparently no excuse for not being concerned with the environment. That's why one mortician in Boring, Ore., is taking it upon herself to tell her customers how they can spend eternity without harming Earth -- by creating urns out of their leftover laundry lint. She's Elizabeth...

Background on cremation

Cremation is the use of high-temperature burning, vaporization, and oxidation to reduce dead animal bodies, including human ones, to basic chemical compounds, such as gases and mineral fragments retaining the appearance of dry bone.

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