water cremation

[waw-ter-kri-may-shuhn]

noun

1. alkaline hydrolysis.

Example Sentences

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.

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The judge noted that the couple was experimenting with water cremation and thinking of other ways to dispose of the bodies, including burying them with the bodies of others whose families had hired the Hallfords to provide funeral services.

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Water cremation is set to be made available for the first time in the UK.

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Alkaline hydrolysis, also known as water cremation, is a natural method of decomposition that uses water to cremate the body.

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California legalized water cremation in 2017, but it became more widely known when Desmond Tutu, the anti-apartheid leader and South African Anglican archbishop emeritus who died in December 2021, requested it.

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