🙏 People Are Starting To Use Water Instead Of Fire To Cremate Loved Ones

What do you think about water cremation?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda gem Nation. Throughout the years, there have
been ways of different looking at different ways of disposing
of human bodies. Obviously in a tribal sense that people
have always honored the dead body somehow. But in our
Anglo Saxon culture, pretty much we put a dead body
into a casket, put it in the ground. The caskets
have changed over the years. You can get Barbara Carland,

(00:22):
I think was buried in a cardboard casket. People who
want to be environmentally just go back to the earth
with no big wooden cases left behind, etc. What about this?
Do you think you'd be interested in this, Brendan, Because
by and large cremation hasn't changed over the years. This
is a thing now happening in the States called water cremation,

(00:43):
an increasingly popular method of managing dead bodies by dissolving
them in chemical baths. Many choose it as an emotional
lifeline and a gentle way to release those they loved
from the living world. I'll tell you about the process.
It's called our line hydrolysis, known more colloquially as water cremation.

(01:05):
It's been gaining popularity in the States. It's there's like
let's go through the details. Inside this particular funeral home
in West Baltimore, a long silver chamber full of water
seaweed flops back and forth over a platform. Within it,
a body is dissolved, so it moves back and forth.

(01:27):
It tilts, and the skin, the flesh, and the organs
are turned into amino acids and sugars with each tip
of the chamber. In a matter of hours, all that
remains are bones and the leftover watery solution. And what
they do with the watery solution, I guess you just
put it down the drain or turn it into coconut water.

(01:51):
Death care professionals say that water cremation appeals to those
who resonate with the idea of themselves and their loved
ones departing the earth through water, Like maybe it's a burial, see,
I like the idea of a barrel and it would
you rather be eaten by fish creatures or dissolved? I
guess this is what would happen to your body in
the in the ocean. You would gradually dissolve. It's a

(02:14):
gentler process, they say, and it's a cleaner alternative to
fire cremation. Yeah, I don't like the idea of fire cremation.
That freaks me out a bit. Do you want to
do you want to take up space? You buried upright
on your bike, as much space as you call it.
I want to be proper. I want all my motorbikes
buried with me, and and I'm in some sort of

(02:35):
chariot and they're all in front of me. Yeah, so
I'm going to need a big bit of space. You're
like those men who insist that their nine wives jump
into the funeral pile. All your bikes are there. But
it's interesting, what are you doing about my bikes? Wives?
As baby boomers start to move into the generation, now,
who are you know? The older people passing away? This

(02:58):
is why we're seeing these shifting things. I was interested
to see that there's a new song that's become very
popular at funerals. It's not always look on the bright
side of life. It's this the theme from Jews. Yeah, no,
I know, I was letting it bed it really Yeah,
the theme from Jaws is being become more and more

(03:20):
popular for people with their final farewell. Do they play
this as the caskets going into the kiln. It'd be
interesting if they play it and the casket tilts up
and then just gets dragged under. You could combine it
with the water creamation. Yeah. Well, you know, actually what
I wanted my funeral. I want to dancing k I'll

(03:48):
write it down so I remember. That's a good colab.
It's integration, man,