water cremation
Americannoun
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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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