Talk of Eco Friendly Burials is growing-YourFuneralGuy

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Talk of Eco Friendly Burials are growing, as recently reported in The Huffington Post. Yes it is true that  more Americans want eco Friendly Burials and home funerals. Green Burial grounds are opening across the United States. The reality is that the number of  green burials beyond the Traditional Jewish or Muslim  green funeral is not high. Mostly what  we have in terms of Green burial is just talk.  however when thoughts turn to talk they soon turn to action.

The latest form of green burial is alkaline hydrolysis disposition also known as green cremation, resomation, water resolution, water cremation, aqamation,  resomation, cycledlife, and  cycledburial. It is a new form of burial that has the lowest carbon footprint of all forms of burial.

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Crematories can Burn Down|Your Funeral Guy

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Recently I have become aware of several Crematories that have burned down and even burned funeral homes down. As  a crematory operator i have dealt with fires in the crematory, grease fires.

The new green cremation process using water does not use fire, only water and alkali-accelerating decomposition.

“A structural fire was extinguished Saturday, August 21 at around 12:30 p.m. at Countryside Funeral Home, 950 S. Bartlett Road by the Bartlett Fire Protection District and members of other area fire districts including Hanover Park, Streamwood, Bloomingdale, Itasca, Pingree Grove and Countryside.

Bartlett police said the fire appeared to have originated in the funeral home’s crematory and caused about $100,000 worth of damage to the roof and crematory.”

via www.mysuburbanlife.com

When fire cremation is not used-Accelerating decomposition-through alkaline hydrolysis, bio cremation, water cremation, water resolution, resomation etc there is not the same threat of fire as with fire cremation.

The Most recent out of control crematory fire struck in my area.

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Your Funeral Guy Blog Exclusive: World’s First Green Cremation, Alkaline Hydroloysis Center open

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The worlds first green cremation center has opened in Australia.  In June Your Funeral Guy became aware that an Alkaline Hydrolysis machine was being shipped to Australia.

Alkaline hydrolysis or water cremation will revolutionize the Funeral Industry Around the World. The process can be done at cost less  to the consumer-much  less than a traditional cremation without polluting the atmosphere. In Fact the process helps the environment. This will help consumers funeral cost everywhere in the world.

Your Funeral Guy  first blogged about the demonstration of  a machine like the one in Australia  in June. Click Here to View pictures.

The process is a  winner all the way around. Good for the consumer, good for the funeral industry, good for the environment, good for the world’s religions-(gods will not object, it is simply accelerated decomposition)

Aquamation Industries chief executive John Humphries says the service, at the Eco Memorial Park at Stapylton near Dreamworld, uses a process it hopes will revolutionise the funeral industry.

“Aquamation is a more natural, ethical and environmentally friendly alternative to cremations and uses water instead of fire to return a body to nature,” the Courier Mail quoted Humphries as saying.

“And within a year we would expect you would be able to have this done anywhere in Australia,” he stated.

via www.newkerala.com

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The process is known as bio cremation, water resolution, green cremation, aquamation, water cremation

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New Good Carbon Footprint|Bio Cremation| Rockets you to the Great Beyond-Your Funeral Guy.

Traditional Cremation by Fire and Traditional burial give our Earth a Green, Carbon Footprint problem. Here is a summary of the Carbon Foot Print problem with  Traditional Funerals.

Of the more than 2.4 million deaths per year in the United States, roughly 70 percent of the newly departed are interred in traditional caskets — that is, wood, steel or even copper caskets, many of which are then encased in slabs of reinforced concrete to prevent the weight of the earth from causing them to collapse. For those who go the casket route, embalming with toxic chemicals like formaldehyde remains common.

As a result, the environmental footprint of the dead is a heavy one. Every year, cemeteries across the nation bury approximately 30 million board feet of hardwood, 104,000 tons of steel, 2,700 tons of copper and bronze and 1.6 million tons of reinforced concrete, according to statistics gathered by environmental groups and advocates for green burial.

via green.blogs.nytimes.com

Here is a summary of the carbon footprint of cremation verses bio cremation or resomation, or water resolution

On Friday June 4th 2010  i had the privilege of viewing  demonstration of Alkaline hydrolysis decomposition.

A look inside the empty machine

CycledLife(TM) has a human machine being shipped to the funeral industry. I was invited to view the machine on Friday, June 4th 2010.This was a demonstration of accelerated Decomposition

The main point is that it has been observed that Alkaline Hydrolysis Works. Call it Bio Cremation, Water Resolution, Resomation, or green cremation-Alkaline Hydrolysis is simply a new form of Disposition, that is accelerated decomposition.

Here are some pictures from the event.

The Tray inside the machine getting ready for the process.

Machine Closed loaded Ready to be put in upright

The Tray inside the machine getting ready for the process, decomposition begins after chemicals applied with no water in upright position, with deceased inside.Water and agitation occur when machine is started up from side panel

Seeing is believing, accelerated decomposition in cycledlife  alkaline hydrolysis machine works

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Tale of Two Bio Cremation Machines|YourFuneralGuy

Here is a tale of two Bio Cremation Machines in pictures, One is being promoted by Matthews International, another is being promoted by CycledLife. Interestingly the Mathews Machine is  priced at nearly  five times that of cycledlife.  The Cycledlife machine will undergo further testing and demontration in June. Although  Matthews International Bio Cremation Resomation Machine is going in St. Petersburg,Florida, not much has been revealed as to the specifics, other than the Anderson- McQueen  Funeral Home location.

Here  is a picture of the traditional Resomation Bio cremation Machine:

Here is a picture of the CycledLife Water Resolution Machine.

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Thomas Lynch Assaults Bio-Cremation|YourFuneralGuy

Thomas Lynch, The Funeral Industry Guru and Poet has issued an assault on Green Cremation or Bio Cremation.The Process is also known as Resomation and Waterless Resolution.

The process has much better carbon footprint than traditional cremation.

However, Thomas Lynch, funeral director at Milford, Michigan’s Lynch & Sons, and the author of a book of poems and short stories called Apparition and Late Fictions, doesn’t predict a spike in requests for bio-cremation anytime soon.

“There are significant expenses involved,” Lynch tells Minyanville. “There’s a big difference between a traditional $250 cremation and a $1000 ‘green’ cremation. Alkaline hydrolysis will separate the environmentally conscious from the environmentally passionate.”

via www.minyanville.com

What shocks me here is that Lynch knows The traditional cremation is not $250.00. You will not even find a low cost funeral provider at that price.

Lynch also knows that Bio Cremation, green cremation  is less far less expensive than the Traditional Funeral.

Lynch’s latest book Apparition and Late Fictions, is an attempt to keep Traditional Cremation under the Control of the Traditional Funeral Home, according to the upcoming Your Funeral Guy Book Review.

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A Your Funeral Guy Exclusive:New Bio Cremation Machine

Breaking News-New Bio Cremation Machine Available

Breaking news-A new Water Resolution Bio, Cremation Machine will be revealed Tuesday at The Minnesota Funeral Directors Assoaiation(MFDA) Convention In St. Cloud, Minnesota. The Machine costs much less than The  Bio Cremation Machines now being put in Funeral Homes in Tennessee and Florida.

The machine debuts May 11th 2010.

Until recently there only have been 2 companies BioSAFE and Matthews International that are providing these type of  machines.

But now there is new company CycledLife that has put out a new Bio Cremation, or Water Resolution Machine.

This became news in a comment on this blog

“As cremation and burial harm the living, clearly, water and alkali disposition is the single best option for the final disposition of human remains. The problem with this technology has been the high capital cost for high-pressure systems. CycledLife, http://www.CycledLife, will be unveiling a low-temperature system at the MFDA’s convention held in St. Cloud from May 11-12, 2010. The system is being offered for $128,000 – a lot less than the old high temperature systems. At this low capital cost for a water and alkali system, crematories will soon be dead.”

There is more information on this machine here:

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