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water cremation

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[waw-ter-kri-may-shuhn] / ˈwɔ tər krɪˈmeɪ ʃən /

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Cox’s business, Honor Pet, provides water cremation, a.k.a aquamation, on-site so if people use their facility to euthanize their pet, they can have aquamation done in the same facility.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2025

The Scottish government said it wanted to allow water cremation and would be launching a consultation on the issue.

From BBC Feb. 22, 2023

Resomation, a British manufacturer of machinery used in water cremation, estimates that substituting aquamation for fire-based cremation cuts a funeral’s greenhouse gas emissions by 35%.

From Seattle Times Jan. 2, 2022

“If every Californian who died in one year used water cremation, it would amount to 64 million gallons of water in that year,” he says.

From Scientific American Sep. 7, 2017

State laws vary: In the last few years, several have legalized alkaline hydrolysis, sometimes known as water cremation, in which bodies are dissolved in a heated mix of water and lye.

From New York Times Apr. 13, 2015

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